Navy Family Medicine Programs Prep to Graduate Medical Home Port Specialists

By Lt. Kevin Bernstein, M.D., M.M.S., Family Medicine Resident at Naval Hospital Pensacola, Fla. It is hard to believe that just 11 months ago, I, along with many other Naval Medical Officers began our medical internship training. In less than one month, we will graduate from our internships prepared to help our fellow shipmates, dependents and [...]

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Navy Medicine Headquarters Moves to Falls Church,Va.

  By Shoshona Pilip-Florea, U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery Public Affairs U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, the flagship command for all of Navy and Marine Corps medicine, started relocating its staff May 30 from Washington, D.C., to Falls Church, Va., as part of the Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) Act of [...]

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New Mobile App Offers “Jackpot” of Stress-Relieving Activities

By Robyn Mincher, DCoE The newest mobile application from National Center for Telehealth and Technology (T2) encourages you to get moving. Designed for those experiencing post-combat stress, “Positive Activity Jackpot,” available for Android systems, helps users creatively plan fun activities using “pleasant events scheduling,” a behavioral health therapy used to help regulate emotions and cope [...]

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One Day at a Time: Supporting a Family Member with PTSD

By Paul Ross, U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery Public Affairs and Editor, Navy Medicine Magazine When my kid brother left for Iraq he was just that — a kid. He returned home shattered inside. The “dark pit,” as he calls it, was hidden underneath his gruff, infantry-tattooed exterior. No one in our family [...]

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Camp Lejeune: LIFE and Leisure

By Erin Ayers and Regina Edwards, Mental Health Department, Naval Hospital Camp Lejeune  Leisure time? Who has time for that? As therapists at one of six Naval Hospital Camp Lejeune Mental Health clinics, we see service members working long hours, often consumed by their jobs and multiple deployments. One of our tasks is to bring [...]

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