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Operational Environment and Associated Threats, Exams of Medicine

This comprehensive guide covers health threats, AMEDD warfighting functions, tactical combat casualty care, the Army Health System, medical care roles, partnerships, healthcare functions, and medical command responsibilities in the operational environment. It also discusses relevant doctrine, laws, and ethics, providing valuable insights for military personnel, healthcare professionals, and students.

Typology: Exams

2024/2025

Available from 10/07/2024

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Operational Environment and Associated Threats ✔✔General Threat
Health Threat
What are the different Health Threats? ✔✔Diseases- Foodborne, Waterborne, Vectors
Occupational and Environmental Health Hazard
Poisonous or Toxic Flora/ Fauna
Health Effects from weapons
Physiologic and Psychological Stressors
What are the AMEDD Warfighting Functions? ✔✔Health Service Support (HSS)- Defined as all
support and services performed.
-Casualty Care, Medical Evacuation, Medical Logistics (MEDLOG)
Force Health Protection (FHP)- Prevention aspect of AMEDD functions.
-Preventive Medicine (PM)
-Veterinary and food inspection and prevention services
-Combat and operational stress control (COSC)
-Dental Services (preventive)
-Laboratory services and support.
ACTUAL 2024/2025 AMEDD BOLC
Study Guide (Army Health Services)
Questions & Answers
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Operational Environment and Associated Threats ✔✔General Threat Health Threat What are the different Health Threats? ✔✔Diseases- Foodborne, Waterborne, Vectors Occupational and Environmental Health Hazard Poisonous or Toxic Flora/ Fauna Health Effects from weapons Physiologic and Psychological Stressors What are the AMEDD Warfighting Functions? ✔✔Health Service Support (HSS)- Defined as all support and services performed.

  • Casualty Care, Medical Evacuation, Medical Logistics (MEDLOG) Force Health Protection (FHP)- Prevention aspect of AMEDD functions.
  • Preventive Medicine (PM)
  • Veterinary and food inspection and prevention services
  • Combat and operational stress control (COSC)
  • Dental Services (preventive)
  • Laboratory services and support.

ACTUAL 2024/2025 AMEDD BOLC

Study Guide (Army Health Services)

Questions & Answers

Army Health System (AHS)- Describes both the HSS and FHP aspects of AMEDD support. What are the stages of Tactical Combat Casualty Care? (TC3) ✔✔Care Under Fire Tactical Field Care Tactical Evacuation Care What are the principles of the Army Health System? ✔✔(CCCPFM) Conformity Continuity Control Proximity Flexibility Mobility How many roles of Medical Care are there? ✔✔ 4

  • Role 1 - Battalion Aid Station and below
  • Role 2 - Medical Company
  • Role 3 - Field Hospital
  • Role 4 - Definitive Care What are the common attributes in the Roles of Medical Care? ✔✔-Treatment
  • Evacuation

What are the medical Mission Command Organizations? ✔✔-Medical Command (Deployment Support)

  • Medical Brigade (Support)
  • Medical Battalion (Multifunctional, MMB)- provide support to assigned and attached medical functional organizations in support of deployed BCTs. What is the Medical Commanders responsibilities? ✔✔To exercise mission command (authority and direction) over subordinate medical resources. What is the Command Surgeons Responsibilities? ✔✔At all levels of command, a command surgeon is designated. He/she is a special staff officer charged with planning for and executing the AHS mission. What is the Line Commanders responsibilities? ✔✔Health promotion is a leadership program that encompasses the assets of educational, environmental, and AHS support services that enable individuals to increase control over and improve their health in support of Army well-being. What inspired the Law of Land Warfare? ✔✔This body of law is inspired by the desire to diminish the evils of war by:
  • Protecting both combatants and noncombatants from unnecessary suffering
  • Safeguarding certain fundamental human rights
  • Facilitating the restoration of peace.

What is the function of the Geneva Convention? ✔✔Is 4 treaties and 3 additional protocols, that establish international legal standards for humanitarian treatment in war.

  • Protects wounded and sick, protection and identification for medical units. Describe Medical Ethics. ✔✔Health care personnel are well-trained in a guided by the ethics of their professional calling. This training and ethical principles, coupled with the requirements of international law as it pertains to the treatment of EPW's, detainees, and civilians during conflict will ensure the ethical treatment of all sick and wounded personnel. What Army doctrine covers Unified Land Operations (ULO)? ✔✔ADP 3 - 0 What is Unified Land Operations? ✔✔ULO describes the character of the dominant major operations being conducted at anytime within the land force commander's AO. What are the Planning Considerations for Army Health System Support? ✔✔-Unified Land Operations
  • Operational Variables- PMESII-PT
  • Mission Variables-METTTC
  • Task Organization
  • Support to Decisive Action-Offensive, Defensive, Stability tasks, and defense support to civil authorities
  • Theater Opening and Early Entry Operations
  • Expeditionary Operations