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Spurs point guard Dejounte Murray tours Medical Education and Training Campus
March 5, 2019 — Members of the Medical Education and Training Campus and the Navy Medicine Training Support Center at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston gave San Antonio Spurs point guard Dejounte Murray a hands-on demonstration of some of the training hospital corpsmen receive at the METC Feb. 28...

Council on Occupational Education lauds METC for ‘world-class’ tech training
November 19, 2018 — From Oct. 31 to Nov. 2, the Medical Education and Training Campus, or METC, hosted an evaluation team from the Council on Occupational Education, or COE, for the second time in eight years. The purpose of the visit was to ensure that METC is abiding by all standards for national accreditation...

Former USS Cole command master chief visits Navy students, METC staff
September 27, 2018 — Oct. 12, 2000 was a day retired Command Master Chief James Parlier will never forget. The retired Navy hospital corpsman was serving as the command master chief, the highest enlisted crew member, of the USS Cole when it was attacked while being refueled in Yemen’s Aden harbor. Seventeen Sailors were killed and another 39 were critically wounded...

HCB Students, Instructor Become First Responders
September 6, 2018 — Two Navy Medicine Training Support Center (NMTSC) Hospital Corpsman Basic (HCB) program students put their training into action, acting as the first responders to assist a patient at the Veterans Affairs Emergency Room, Aug. 27...

Surgeon General, Force Master Chief Visit NMTSC
August 7, 2018 — Vice Adm. Forrest Faison, Navy surgeon general and chief, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery; and Force Master Chief Hosea Smith Jr., Hospital Corps director, visited Navy Medicine Training Support Center (NMTSC), Aug. 2...

Front and Center: Medical Education and Training Campus instructor a mentor to students, instructors
February 8, 2018 — Being selected to become a pharmacy technician turned out to be a wise career choice for Master Sgt. Robert George, the senior enlisted advisor for the Pharmacy Technician Training Program at the Medical Education and Training Campus at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston...

HM 'A' School Graduation First Of Its Kind
October 17, 2017 — The first class to train under the newly revised hospital corpsman (HM) 'A' School curriculum graduated Oct. 13 at a ceremony at the Medical Education and Training Campus on board Joint Base San Antonio - Fort Sam Houston, Texas...

San Antonio Sailors helping change the world through STEM
October 5, 2017 — “Changing the world through STEM” was the theme of the 2017 Hispanic Engineering, Science, and Technology, or HESTEC, Week held on the campus of the University of Texas-Rio Grande Valley Oct. 2-7...

Medical Education and Training Campus partners with Air Force, Navy for hurricane relief
September 25, 2017 — The devastation of Hurricane Harvey may be one of the worst storms in recent memory. Thousands have been left with only the clothes on their back, questioning when and how they will get be able to move past the destruction. Like a call to arms, volunteers from the Medical Education and Training Campus, Naval Medical Training Support Center, and the 59th Training Group at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston took action. They worked diligently to collect non-perishable food items, clothing, blankets, shoes, diapers, pet food, and other items...

Medical Education and Training Campus uses hologram technology to train combat medics
August 23, 2017 — Students in Combat Medic Training program Alpha Class 70-17 at the Medical Education and Training Campus at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston gathered around Alonzo Gonzales, an emergency medical technician course instructor, Aug. 21 as he explained the morning’s lesson...