With the ongoing conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and traumatic brain injury (TBI) affect many active duty service members. According to the Department of Defense, TBI is the most common combat-related injury facing service members today.¹ Additionally, many of those who have been deployed to these areas will experience something traumatic, such as being ambushed or attacked, or seeing someone critically injured or killed.
 
To aid returning service members, the TRICARE Management Activity (TMA) has created an online pilot program to educate civilian behavioral health care providers about PTSD and TBI. TMA created the Civilian Provider Education Portal in response to several successful on-site behavioral health training sessions it conducted throughout the United States. The program offers free continuing medical education to civilian providers in a convenient, online setting.
 
Learn more about PTSD and TBI and how to earn up to 17 continuing medical education units.  

¹ www.health.mil/Press/Release.aspx?ID=591.