Joint Medical Planners Course (2024)

FAQs

What is the joint planning process? ›

Joint planning is the deliberate process of determining how to implement strategic guidance: how (the ways) to use military capabilities (the means) in time and space to achieve objectives (the ends) within an acceptable level of risk.

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This five-day classroom-only course focuses on joint and combined operational and medical planning from point of injury/illness to the appropriate capability of care during military operations.

At the strategic level, the initiating authority is national leadership—the President, Secretary of Defense, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Below the national strategic level, that authority is usually a JFC (combatant commander [CCDR] or joint task force commander).

Who has the authority to initiate planning by deciding to develop military options? At the strategic level, that authority lies with the Secretary of Defense.

The main challenges for joint planning, monitoring, and evaluation of nutrition-sensitive agriculture clustered around personnel capacity, workload of sector personnel, weak technical committees/task forces, lack of attention given to nutrition activities, inadequate supportive supervision, and problematic reporting ...

Using doctrine, the discussions will focus on the four functions (seven steps) of JOPP: Planning Initiation; Mission Analysis; COA Development; COA Analysis and Wargaming; COA Comparison and COA Approval; Plan or Order Development; and Plan Assessment.

Army. As a U.S. Army physician, you will work with the most elite medical professional teams around the world.

The Army has the largest graduate medical educational program within all the military branches and encompasses all medical specialties. San Antonio Military Medical Center is the only Level I Trauma Center within the Department of Defense and home of the military's only burn intensive care unit.

As part of the HPSP, the Military will pay your tuition, provide a living stipend and reimburse you for required books, equipment and supplies. Once you are accepted for the HPSP, your Service branch will contact your medical school and start paying your tuition.

The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff organizes the joint planning and execution community (JPEC) for joint operation planning by establishing supported and supporting command relationships between the combatant commands.

What are the 6 steps of the MCPP? ›

The Marine Corps Planning Process is a six-step process comprising problem framing, course of action (COA) development, COA wargaming, COA comparison and decision, orders development, and transition.

The planning construct is quite straightforward: three rules should be followed in sequence. First, sustainment is provided by the service (Army, Air Force, Navy, or Marine Corps) or the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA), which responds to the services.

 Commanders use lines of operations (LOO), lines of effort (LOE), or both to describe the flow of a campaign and illustrate a proposed sequence of actions designed to create mutually supporting effects.  Often, a specific LOO is identified as the decisive operation with others supporting through shaping.

There are five fundamental issues that must be considered when developing COAs. A valid COA should be suitable, feasible, acceptable, distinguishable and complete [1]. A COA is suitable if it is in alignment with commander's intent and will accomplish the mission when carried out successfully.

Joint assessment is a shared assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of a national health strategy or strategic plan. It can also be used for sub-sector strategies for example a national malaria strategy.

The FCCLA Planning Process is a decision-making tool used to carry out each project. Power of One fosters a growth mindset.

The MDMP consists of seven steps: receipt of mission, mission analysis, course of action (CO A) development, COA analysis, COA comparison, COA approval, and orders production. The MDMP offers a proven analytical process that assists the commander and staff in developing, integrating, and synchronizing their plan.

The U.S. military's dominant paradigm for operations is a six-phase planning construct, consisting of phase 0 (shape), phase I (deter), phase II (seize initiative), phase III (dominate), phase IV (stabilize), and finally, phase V (enable civil authority).