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MEDICAL LESSONS LEARNED
DESERT SHIELD/STORM
CATEGORY: Manpower and Personnel
ISSUE/ITEM:
SUBJECT: Personnel Utilization-Special Skills
BACKGROUND: All medical personnel are subject to deployment unless specifically
exempted due to higher priority missions. This policy is sound; however, it also
becomes problematic when deployment requirements dictate the loss of
unique/specialized skills which support other vital programs such as Graduate
Medical Education (GME) or very narrow clinical specialties.
DISCUSSION: Desert Shield requrired the deployment of teaching program staff at
both Wilford Hall and Keesler. Some critical specialties were totally bereft of
staff. In order to maintain program integrity, we sought to secure IMA backfill
on a by-name basis as individuals with specific clinical and academic skills were
required. Working these requests was difficult and frustrating, but did
eventually work.
One physician was returned from overseas due to the fact that his
expertise could not be replicated by any other individual; CHAMPUS referrals in
that specialty were exhorbitant and he was subsequently returned.
ACTION RECOMMENDED:
(1) Ensure that IMA assets with requisite academic and clinical
skills are pre-assigned to support GME, other teaching programs, or specialty
programs.
(2) Where critical individuals cannot be backfilled, consider
exemption from mobility with appropriate substitution for the UTC AFSC.
SUGGESTED OPRs/OCRs:
HQ ARPC/SG
HQ USAF/SGHR
MAJCOM/SGM
SUBMITTER: Terry W. Clarke/Capt/HQ ATC/SGAX
[(b)(2)]
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