News Archive
Medical Education & Training Campus pharmacy student sets example for her children
August 17, 2017
Airman 1st Class Amanda Cervantes, a student in the Medical Education and Training Campus Pharmacy Technician program on Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston, Texas, conducts a mock exam to learn how to use the Composite Health Care System database. "Mock" exams test the skills that the students have learned to prepare them not only for the graded exam, but for what they will see in the clinical training phase and eventually in their permanent duty station. Cervantes, a widow with four children, joined the Air Force Reserve to set an example for her children, serve her country, and work in the medical field so she can help people.
METC Technology Innovation Group showcases key initiatives, products of the future at tech expo
June 30, 2017
Senior Airman Travis Napaepae, Medical Education and Training Campus Information Management Division call center manager, tries his hand drawing on an interactive SMART screen displaying the circulatory system.
Medical Education and Training Campus instructor brings magic into classroom
June 29, 2017
Staff Sgt. John Blaz, Interservice Respiratory Therapy Program instructor at the Medical Education and Training Campus, Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston, shows a deck of cards during a magic trick he performs for his students at the beginning of a recent class.
NMTSC Commemorates Battle of Midway 75th Anniversary
June 7, 2017
Medical Education and Training Campus staff celebrate Healthcare Technology Management Week
May 31, 2017
D. Calvin Jackson, a retired Army master sergeant biomedical equipment technician, or BMET, speaks to staff, students and instructors from the Medical Education and Training Campus, or METC, at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston as part of Healthcare Technology Management Week. METC instructors from the tri-service biomedical equipment technician, or BMET, program planned daily events to raise awareness during the week.
Medical Education Training Campus Combat Medic Training goes virtual
April 13, 2017
Maj. Jean Williams, right, Medical Education Training Campus Department of Combat Medic Training branch chief, participates in a demonstration of the Virtual Education System under the direction of Robert Moore, CEO of Virtual Education Systems, at Heritage Hall at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston April 1. VES is a virtual reality based training platform in which the learner interacts with a virtual patient in various situations, including at a home, an ambulance and a hospital room.
HM Training Revision Better Meets Fleet Needs, SG, CNO Priorities
March 31, 2017
U.S. Central Command medical conference participants visit Medical Education and Training Campus
March 20, 2017
Lt. Col. Faisal Qazi from Pakistan, a participant in the U.S. Central Command Theater Medical Conference, exams a "patient" in the Nurse Synthesis Laboratory during a tour of the Basic Medical Technician Corpsman program at the Medical Education and Training Campus at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston. The patient is a high-tech human-patient, high-fidelity mannequins, or SimMan, used in the BMTC course to help train Navy and Air Force students to become Air Force medical technicians and Navy hospital corpsmen.
Opportunities expand for METC graduates to further education
February 22, 2017
Medical Education and Training Campus holds active shooter, lockdown drill
January 23, 2017
An armed intruder, played by William Torres, a training instructor with the 502nd Security Forces Squadron, gets inside an unlocked laboratory in Smith Hall on the Medical Education and Training Campus, or METC, at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston Jan. 18. METC worked with Torres and his security response team from the 502nd Air Base Wing to conduct an active shooter/lockdown drill.