Navy Medical Team Completes Simulation Training

Sailors assigned to Expeditionary Medical Facility Kilo (EMF-Kilo) strengthened their expeditionary medical capabilities during a three-day training evolution at Naval Medical Center Camp Lejeune's Healthcare Simulation (SIM) and Bioskills Center from June 22–24, 2026.

The training combined classroom instruction with hands-on medical scenarios then culminated in an integrated casualty receiving exercise involving Medical Battalion's En Route Care and Patient Evacuation Team.

"This evolution combined knowledge, skills and abilities with patient scenarios to hone the communication and teamwork our personnel will need to have in any austere environment," said Lt. Cmdr. Claire-Marie Vidrine, command training officer for EMF Kilo.

The realistic scenarios were designed to strengthen communication, coordination, and teamwork essential to expeditionary patient care.

"The SIM training offered the opportunity for individuals across the casualty care team to come together as a team," said Lt. Cmdr. Justin Frisenda, an osteopathic surgeon with Naval Medical Center Camp Lejeune (NMCCL). "Corpsmen, nurses, and physicians across multiple specialties were able to see what it is like to receive casualties, apply resuscitative care, stabilize them, and get them ready for transport to the next echelon of care."

Participants also focused on administrative processes required in expeditionary medicine, including documentation such as blood transfusions, ordering labs, and submitting patient movement requests. The exercise introduced junior Sailors to specialized medical procedures and equipment they may encounter during operational deployments, including cricothyroidotomy and Resuscitative Endovascular Balloon Occlusion of the Aorta.

EMF-Kilo plans to conduct similar simulation training on a quarterly basis to keep its medical teams proficient and ready.

EMF-Kilo is the expeditionary readiness platform attached to Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command Camp Lejeune, comprised of personnel ready to deploy field hospital capabilities during humanitarian or combat missions.