Mission
Mission
Our mission is to develop medical officers who are champions in imploring military mental health policies that help to guide leaders in preserving the safety of service members and DoD beneficiaries while adhering to readiness protocols and being empowered to navigate the operational environment in order to accomplish the end state objectives.
Access to Our Vast Resources
Access to Our Vast Resources
Many of the resources on this page will require a USUHS Single Sign On (SSO) account.
When registering, please have ready:
Your Common Access Card (CAC)
Access Request Point of Contacts (POCs) -
The USUHS Learning Resource Center (requires SSO) hosts thousands of books and journals in electronic format. The outstanding LRC staff offers assistance with literature searches and consultation on projects.
Operational Modalities
to Mental Health
Access and Delivery
Operational Modalities
to Mental Health
Access and Delivery
Operation Bushmaster
Operation Bushmaster
POC - COL Kimberly Kumer
In-person annual operational medicine event at USUHS that is run by the Department of Military and Emergency Medicine. Invitational travel orders are available. Operation Bushmaster serves as a cumulative exercise for senior students in the school of medicine and graduate school of nursing, giving students a chance to integrate their years of training in military and medical skills in an intense field scenario. Faculty volunteers from Psychiatry serve as coaches and monitor Psychiatry residents who are directly teaching Combat Operational Stress Control principles and skills to the students participating in Operation Bushmaster.
Combat Operational Stress Control (COSC)
Combat Operational Stress Control (COSC)
As an element of force health protection, COSC and OSC have three main goals—prevention, identification, and treatment of stress problems arising from military training and operations. More broadly and simply, the goal of COSC and OSC is resilience, the ability to withstand adversity without becoming significantly affected, as well as the ability to recover quickly and fully from whatever stress-induced distress or impairment has occurred.
Traumatic Event Management (TEM)
Traumatic Event Management (TEM)
Traumatic Event Management (TEM): blends other COSC functional areas to create a flexible set of interventions specifically focused on stress management for units and Soldiers following potentially traumatizing events (PTE).
Special Rapid Psychiatric Intervention Team (SPRINT)
Special Rapid Psychiatric Intervention Team (SPRINT)
SPRINT provides short-term mental health support to a requesting command shortly after a traumatic event with the goal of preventing long-term psychiatric dysfunction and promoting maximum psychological readiness
Operational Resources
Operational Resources
DHA's Memo: CPG for Deployment - Limiting Mental Disorders and Psychotropic Medications
DHA's Memo: CPG for Deployment - Limiting Mental Disorders and Psychotropic Medications
DoD Components will conduct deployment health activities before, during, and after deployment as described in this issuance and deployment health procedural instructions published by the DHA.
Mental Health Playbook
Mental Health Playbook
This playbook is designed to assist Navy leaders in preventing, mitigating, or addressing mental health issues within their commands. This work begins well-before a mental health issue occurs. It starts with the climate our leaders create and how they lead the people in their care.
DoDI 6490.08, Command Notification Requirements to Dispel Stigmas in Providing Mental Health Care to Service Members
DoDI 6490.08, Command Notification Requirements to Dispel Stigmas in Providing Mental Health Care to Service Members
Establishes policy, assigns responsibilities, and prescribes procedures for health care providers for determining command notification requirements as applied to service members’ involvement in mental health care. It also delineates procedures for service members who voluntarily seek substance misuse education services, evaluation, or treatment in accordance with DoD Instruction (DoDI) 1010.04.
DoDI 6490.04, Mental Health Evaluations of Members of the Military Services
DoDI 6490.04, Mental Health Evaluations of Members of the Military Services
It is the responsibility of the DoD to ensure that policies and procedures are implemented in a manner that removes the stigma associated with Service members seeking and receiving mental health services. The use of mental health services is considered, whenever possible, to be comparable to the use of other medical and health services. This extends to policy directed at ensuring fitness for duty, returning injured or ill Service members to full duty status after appropriate treatment and managing medical conditions that may endanger the Service member, others, or mission accomplishment.
The Brandon Act
The Brandon Act
This bill will allow service members to seek mental health treatment and require a mental health evaluation as soon as a service member self-reports. It will also allow Americans serving in uniform to seek help confidentially and, if necessary, outside of the chain of command.
Military Training Links
Military Training Links
Joint Knowledge Online (JKO)
Joint Knowledge Online (JKO)
Joint Knowledge Online (JKO), is the DoD advanced distributed learning capability for military and civilian individual and staff online training. It is the Joint Staff system of record for Joint Staff annual training requirements.
Relias Learning
Relias Learning
Relias is a leading provider of workforce education and enablement solutions, empowering healthcare organizations and their staff with integrated tools and best-in-class learning content.
Enterprise Safety Application Management System (ESAMS)
Enterprise Safety Application Management System (ESAMS)
ESAMS allows employees, supervisors, and safety professionals to manage their mishap, inspection, and deficiency data which can be limited to echelon, installation, command, and various other levels.
Defense Travel System (DTS)
Defense Travel System (DTS)
In the Defense Travel System, or DTS, users can search for airline, hotel, and rental car reservations, check per diem rates, and prepare personal travel documents or, with the proper permissions, documents for others.
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