Training provides medical Airmen new opportunities, improves patient safety

Senior Airman Floydler Manasse, left, 436th Health Care Operations Squadron emergency medical technician, discusses protocols for ambulance operation during ambulance response team augmentee training at Dover Air Force Base, Delaware, Aug. 11, 2021. The 436th Medical Group is training clinical medics to become augmentees during emergency calls, allowing core medics to focus on patients, improving overall patient safety. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Nicole Leidholm)

Training provides medical Airmen new opportunities, improves patient safety

Airman 1st Class Kacie Shaffer, 436th Health Care Operations Squadron medical technician, practices removing a stretcher from an ambulance during ambulance response team augmentee training at Dover Air Force Base, Delaware, Aug. 11, 2021. The 436th Medical Group is training clinical medics to become augmentees during emergency calls, allowing core medics to focus on patients, improving overall patient safety. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Nicole Leidholm)

Training provides medical Airmen new opportunities, improves patient safety

Senior Airman Max Robichaud, back, 436th Operational Medical Readiness Squadron emergency medical technician, explains to Airman 1st Class Robiyabonu Dustova, 436th Health Care Operations Squadron medical technician, how to check the levels on an oxygen tank during ambulance response team augmentee training at Dover Air Force Base, Delaware, Aug. 11, 2021. The 436th Medical Group is training clinical medics to become augmentees during emergency calls, allowing core medics to focus on patients, improving overall patient safety. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Nicole Leidholm)

Training provides medical Airmen new opportunities, improves patient safety

Published Aug. 12, 2021
By Tech. Sgt. Nicole Leidholm
436th Airlift Wing Public Affairs

DOVER AIR FORCE BASE, Del. --