• Making Dr. Airman

    Across the National Capital Region, Capital Medics of the 11th Medical Group deliver 42 world-class healthcare specialties to hundreds of thousands of beneficiaries. To be proficient in their jobs, all of the Airmen undergo some kind of rigorous formal education and training that enable them to be

  • Nerve Scrambler Therapy lessens pain for warfighters, Tricare patients

    In reality, NST is one of the 79th Medical Wing’s most cutting edge methods, or modalities, for managing chronic and debilitative nerve pain that impacts warfighters’ job performance and long term quality of life. “Like many civilians, military patients sometimes experience nerve pain after they’ve

  • Warfighters have vision improved at 779th MDG’s Eye Center

    The ophthalmology team at the wing’s 779th Medical Group’s Warfighter Eye Center located at Joint Base Andrews, Md., performs state-of-the-art corrective laser eye surgery on Airmen warfighters so they can focus on doing their jobs on land, in the air, space and cyberspace.

  • USAF AIM center places needle focus on warfighters’ health

    Specifically designed with the warfighter in mind, the 779th MDG’s Acupuncture and Integrative Medicine facility is the DoD’s only clinic with full-time, dedicated licensed acupuncture physicians delivering needle and non-needle pain management options to thousands of military and civilian patients

  • Operational physiology training preps Airmen for flight

    To learn how to identify these symptoms in themselves and in others, approximately 1,200 civilian and military fliers, like Nielson, undergo altitude simulation training every year at the 11th Medical Group's Aerospace Medical Squadron facility at Joint Base Andrews, Md.

  • 79th MDW nurses, medical techs deliver trusted care in all the right places

    This Friday concludes National Nurses Week 2017, a time designated by the American Nurses Association to celebrate our country’s nursing professionals who lend their expertise and training to advance the health and wellness of their patients. For more than 455,000 beneficiaries across the National