Author: Stephanie Valle
El Paso, Texas – A partnership between the military, El Paso’s University Medical Center and Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center brings dozens of Army orthopedic surgeons to El Paso.
The training that the surgeons receive in the operating rooms at UMC helps prepare them to treat soldiers wounded in combat operations overseas.
ABC-7 was allowed to watch an operation at UMC in which the resident assisting the attending surgeon and the anesthesiologist were both students and soldiers.
They are part of a group of nearly two dozen military members who get hands-on, trauma surgery training at the area’s only Level One trauma center.