Sec. 708. JOINT TRAUMA EDUCATION AND TRAINING DIRECTORATE
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## SEC. 708 JOINT TRAUMA EDUCATION AND TRAINING DIRECTORATE **[**[10 U.S.C. 1071 note](/us/usc/t10/s1071)**]** ###
(a)Establishment The Secretary of Defense shall establish a Joint Trauma Education and Training Directorate (in this section referred to as the “Directorate”) to ensure that the traumatologists of the Armed Forces maintain readiness and are able to be rapidly deployed for future armed conflicts. The Secretary shall carry out this section in collaboration with the Secretaries of the military departments. ###
(b)Duties The duties of the Directorate are as follows: ####
(1)To enter into and coordinate the partnerships under subsection (c). ####
(2)To establish the goals of such partnerships necessary for trauma teams led by traumatologists to maintain professional competency in trauma care. ####
(3)To establish metrics for measuring the performance of such partnerships in achieving such goals. ####
(4)To develop methods of data collection and analysis for carrying out paragraph (3). ####
(5)To communicate and coordinate lessons learned from such partnerships with the Joint Trauma System established under section 707. ####
(6)To develop standardized combat casualty care instruction for all members of the Armed Forces, including the use of standardized trauma training platforms. ####
(7)To develop a comprehensive trauma care registry to compile relevant data from point of injury through rehabilitation with respect to both members of the Armed Forces and military working dogs. ####
(8)To develop quality of care outcome measures for combat casualty care. ####
(9)To inform and advise the conduct of research on the leading causes of morbidity and mortality of members of the Armed Forces and military working dogs in combat. ###
(c)Partnerships ####
(1)In general The Secretary may enter into partnerships with civilian academic medical centers and trauma centers to provide integrated combat trauma teams, including forward surgical teams, with maximum exposure to a high volume of patients with critical injuries. ####
(2)Trauma teams Under the partnerships entered into under paragraph (1), trauma teams of the Armed Forces led by traumatologists of the Armed Forces shall embed within trauma centers on an enduring basis. ####
(3)Selection The Secretary shall select civilian academic medical centers and trauma centers to enter into partnerships under paragraph
(1)based on patient volume, acuity, and other factors the Secretary determines necessary to ensure that the traumatologists of the Armed Forces and the associated clinical support teams have adequate and continuous exposure to critically injured patients. ####
(4)Consideration In entering into partnerships under paragraph (1), the Secretary may consider the experiences and lessons learned by the military departments that have entered into memoranda of understanding with civilian medical centers for trauma care. ###
(d)Personnel Management Plan ####
(1)Plan The Secretary shall establish a personnel management plan for the following wartime medical specialties: #####
(A)Emergency medical services and prehospital care. #####
(B)Trauma surgery. #####
(C)Critical care. #####
(D)Anesthesiology. #####
(E)Emergency medicine. #####
(F)Other wartime medical specialties the Secretary determines appropriate for purposes of the plan. ####
(2)Elements The elements of the plan established under paragraph
(1)shall include, at a minimum, the following: #####
(A)An accession plan for the number of qualified medical personnel to maintain wartime medical specialties on an annual basis in order to maintain the required number of trauma teams as determined by the Secretary. #####
(B)The number of positions required in each such medical specialty. #####
(C)Crucial organizational and operational assignments for personnel in each such medical specialty. #####
(D)Career pathways for personnel in each such medical specialty. ####
(3)Implementation The Secretaries of the military departments shall carry out the plan established under paragraph (1). ###
(e)Implementation Plan Not later than July 1, 2017, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to the Committees on Armed Services of the House of Representatives and the Senate an implementation plan for establishing the Joint Trauma Education and Training Directorate under subsection (a), entering into partnerships under subsection (c), and establishing the plan under subsection (d). ###
(f)Level I Civilian Trauma Center Defined In this section, the term “level I civilian trauma center” means a comprehensive regional resource that is a tertiary care facility central to the trauma system and is capable of providing total care for every aspect of injury from prevention through rehabilitation.
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