News Archive
METC Ultrasound Student Praised for Catching Abnormal Scan
September 18, 2023
Hospital Corpsman Second Class Douglass Jones is presented with a coin from the Medical Education and Training Campus Commandant, Col. David Walmsley, for Jones' outstanding attention to detail while conducting a practice scan on a student, leading him to recognize an abnormality that allowed the student to receive expedited care for a mass that could have later become symptomatic.

METC PTT Program Goes Digital
September 1, 2023
One benefit to using eBooks is their accessibility by METC students out-side of class time.

METC Physical Therapy Technician students conduct hands-on training
August 30, 2023
METC Physical Therapy Technician students conduct hands-on training

Soldiers and Sailors learn Entomology at METC
August 8, 2023

Bug Training
June 27, 2023
Army and Navy students in the Medical Education and Training Campus Preventive Medicine program examine insects and learn about their relationship to humans, the environment, and other organisms in the entomology laboratory. As part of their training, students are prepared to perform various entomological functions in support of insect and rodent control programs. Graduates are certified in DoD Pesticide Application through the Armed Forces Pest Management Board.

METC Program Creates Path to College Degrees
June 27, 2023
Master Sgt. Adrian Welch, the Army Reserve Senior Career Management Non-Commissioned Officer at the U.S. Army Medical Center of Excellence, earned two college degrees through the METC Degree Bridge program. Welch took advantage of the program years after graduating from the Army’s 91W Healthcare Specialist course (now the 68W Combat Medic Specialist Training Program) in July 2003, several years before METC was established.

ITMD Completes Voice Solution Project
March 25, 2023

METC hosts large-scale tabletop exercise for notional mobilization
January 31, 2023
METC hosts large-scale tabletop exercise for notional mobilization

WWE Superstars take time for service members, kids at JBSA-Fort Sam Houston
January 27, 2023
WWE wrestling Superstars Baron Corbin and Lacey Evans provide medical care to a combat "casualty", a mannequin with "traumatic" injuries, during a tour of the Medical Education and Training Campus Combat Medic Specialist Training Program. The tour was part of a visit to Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston January 26, and included a visit to other METC programs.

Aiming to Heal
November 10, 2022
In honor of Radiologic Technology Week, the multi-service Radiologic Technologist program at the Medical Education and Training Campus celebrated with a barbeque lunch for its students, instructors, and staff, followed by the reading of a proclamation signed by San Antonio Mayor Ron Nirenberg Nov. 10.