The Role of the Army Medical Corps (MC) in the Caribbean Campaign of the Spanish American War.

The 5th Army Medical Corps Caribbean campaigns provided valuable lessons on the noncombat hazards to troops and the challenges to the provision of care in a tropical theater of operations. The Army quickly adapted the lessons learnt for the invasion in Puerto Rico and future overseas expeditions.

Colonel B.K. Ashford, A Brief Military Medicine Historical Review.

Colonel (Col.) Bailey K. Ashford was a turn of the 19th century Army medical corps officer who made great contributions to military medicine in the areas of infectious disease, public health, and education.

A case of post-traumatic stress disorder presenting with anorexia nervosa restrictive type.

We present a case of combat-related post-traumatic stress disorder that made and unusual initial clinical presentation with anorexia nervosa restrictive type.

Use of alcoholics anonymous as part of medical school education: students' and educators' perspectives.

The objective of this study was to discover the utility, barriers, and experiences with the use of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) as a learning resource in the medical school curriculum. A third-year medical student cohort and a psychiatric educator group were queried about learned experiential lessons, attendance requirements, attitudes, and obstacles encountered. Forty-three educators, whose familiarity with AA varied widely, responded to the survey.

Antismoking interventions in residential substance abuse treatment.

Objective: : To develop and evaluate an educational strategy to increase motivation to quit smoking and improve attendance at antismoking classes in a residential substance abuse treatment program.

Methods: : The 241 patients admitted in 2004 who smoked reported the number of cigarettes smoked daily at the time of admission. Attendance at the antismoking classes was noted to determine if there was a relationship between attending the classes and a change in the number of cigarettes smoked at discharge.

Videophones for intensive case management of psychiatric outpatients.

When visiting patients with serious mental illness at their homes, case managers carried a portable videophone. This was used to access the hospital clinical team via the home telephone line, when an acute clinical need arose in addressing questions related to medication management and treatment planning; travel was therefore avoided. In an acceptability study lasting 12 months, 24 patients received the supplemental videophone mental health service and 19 of them completed a satisfaction survey.