16 FAM 800
OPERATIONAL MEDICINE PROGRAM
16 FAM 810
general
(CT:MED-41; 03-07-2019)
(Office of Origin: MED)
16 FAM 811 background
16 FAM 811.1 Directorate of
Operational Medicine (MED/DMD/OM)
(CT:MED-41; 03-07-2019)
(Uniform/State/USAID/USAGM/Commerce/Foreign Service Corps-USDA)
(Applies to Civil Service and Foreign Service Employees)
a. The Bureau of Medical Services (MED) Directorate of
Operational Medicine (MED/DMD/OM), executes the U.S. Department of States
Operational Medicine Program. The essential functions of the program are
planning, developing, resourcing, and executing medical contingency plans to
enhance the security of chief-of-mission personnel engaged in high-risk
environments worldwide, providing senior decision-makers with flexible response
options to identify and mitigate emerging medical risks and employing
professionals trained, experienced, and equipped to operate in high-risk environments.
b. Activities of the Directorate of Operational
Medicine complement the Departments health care program abroad by supporting
mission medical health unit staff and assisting missions in emergency medical
preparedness programs in all environments.
16 FAM 811.2 Authority
(CT:MED-41; 03-07-2019)
(Uniform/State/USAID/USAGM/Commerce/Foreign Service Corps-USDA)
(Applies to Civil Service and Foreign Service Employees)
The authorities for the Operational Medicine Program are
detailed in 16
FAM 111.
16 FAM 812 PERSONNEL
(CT:MED-41; 03-07-2019)
(Uniform/State/USAID/USAGM/Commerce/Foreign Service Corps-USDA)
(Applies to Civil Service and Foreign Service Employees)
a. The Managing Director of Operational Medicine
directly supervises the Director of the Office of Strategic Medical
Preparedness and the Director of the Office of Protective Medicine, and retains
responsibility for the management, direction, and development of functions
administered by those offices. The Managing Director must be an experienced
physician board-certified in emergency medicine.
b. The Office of Protective Medicine is responsible for
the development and execution of medical support to security, protective, and
crisis-response operations. The Director of the Office of Protective Medicine
must be a practitioner experienced in managing emergency medical-services
systems and providing or directing medical support to law-enforcement or
military operations.
c. The Office of Strategic Medical Preparedness is
responsible for developing strategic medical contingency plans, managing the
Departments strategic stockpiles of medical equipment and pharmaceuticals, and
developing and executing mass-casualty training programs for high-threat posts.
The Director of the Office of Strategic Medical Preparedness must be an
experienced Foreign Service physician.
d. The emergency management specialist is a Civil
Service employee with extensive crisis-management and contingency planning
experience that holds medical licensure or certification as an advanced medical
practitioner responsible for planning, resourcing, and executing direct medical
support to security, protection, and crisis-response operations. While deployed
abroad, emergency management specialists may be armed in accordance with the mission
firearms policy.
e. The medical specialist (protective) is a Foreign
Service specialist with extensive crisis-management and contingency planning
experience that holds medical licensure or certification as an advanced medical
provider and is posted to selected high-threat posts abroad, where they are
supervised by the regional security officer, work collaboratively with the health
unit staff, and support security and protection operations. While posted abroad,
the medical specialist (protective) may be armed in accordance with the mission
firearms policy.
f. The protective medical officer is a Civil Service
physician with extensive experience in emergency or operational medicine that
provides direct medical support to security, protection, and crisis-response
operations. While deployed abroad, the protective medical officer may be armed
in accordance with the mission firearms policy.
g. The interagency planner is a Civil Service
professional or Department of Defense service member with extensive experience
in coordinating medica-support plans at the inter-agency and international
level, responsible for synchronizing and mobilizing resources to support
security, protection, and crisis-response operations abroad.
h. The Operational Medicine Program manager is a Civil
Service employee responsible for acquisitions planning, contract management,
strategic program analysis, business process development, and resource programming
within the Directorate of Operational Medicine. The program manager must hold
Federal Acquisitions Certification in Program and Project Management, and be a level
III contracting officers representative.
16 FAM 813 Operational medicine program
FUNCTIONS
(CT:MED-41; 03-07-2019)
(Uniform/State/USAID/USAGM/Commerce/Foreign Service Corps-USDA)
(Applies to Civil Service and Foreign Service Employees)
a. The Operational Medicine directorate formulates and
directs the implementation of MED policies that provide medical support to chief-of-mission
personnel in high-threat environments. The directorate plans, resources, and
executes health-support activities in such environments outside normal mission health
unit activities. See 1 FAM 362.1
for functional statements defining areas of responsibilities for the component
offices of the Operational Medicine directorate.
b. Specific functions include:
(1) Provision of executive oversight, leadership, and
central activities necessary to sustain operational medicine capabilities and
services provided by the bureau in support of Department activities;
(2) Support to the Medical Director as primary liaison
to the intelligence community in assimilating medical intelligence to inform
and guide the Departments medical response to natural disasters, epidemics,
and terrorist acts against the U.S. Government abroad;
(3) Oversight and coordination of medical privileging
of emergency medical technician personnel outside the Bureau of Medical
Services, in collaboration with MED/DMD/QM, under the provisions of 16 FAM 135;
(4) Rapid deployment of protective medicine personnel
to support security, protection, and crisis-response operations in high-risk
areas and subject-matter experts in support of the foreign emergency support team
(FEST); and
(5) Development and implementation of preparedness
measures to mitigate medical risk to covered personnel from natural and manmade
disasters through:
(a) Developing broad-based interagency and
intradepartmental partnerships, frameworks, and contingency plans to address
general and specific medical threats:
(b) Assessing and refining the Departments strategic
medical readiness posture; and
(c) Ensuring standardization of emergency medical
training for personnel at high-threat diplomatic facilities abroad, including
deployment of mobile training teams;
(6) Management and control of nontraditional patient
movement through specialized air assets capable of biocontainment medical
evacuation and medical transport, and facilitating movement of crisis-response
personnel into high-risk areas as directed by Department leadership;
(7) Provides a single coordination point between
external stakeholders and bureau directorates, including MED/MHS, MED/DMD, and
MED/CP, for support to personnel recovery activities; and
(8) Performs acquisitions planning and contract-management
functions related to emergency medical kits, WMD pharmaceutical
countermeasures, security and crisis-response support, nontraditional medical
evacuation services, and other supplies and services within the operational medicine
mission.
16 fam 814 through 819 unassigned