Page 5 - Journal of Special Operations Medicine - Spring 2017

from the
PUBLISHER and EDITOR

e hope you are enjoying our new USSOCOM December 2016 changes.
Wmobile compliant website. We Save on shipping costs by getting yours
are working on it daily to improve at the conference. Please be sure to stop
your experience. We have also recently by and get your complimentary JSOM /
completed the conversion of our On- ATP-P bookmarks so you never need to
line Store. We are confident that you Michelle DuGuay Landers worry about losing your place.
will find the new and improved Online
Store experience to be a huge improvement over the pre- Be sure to become a member of SOMA and receive the
vious design. In addition to a complete visual overhaul, JSOM as part of your membership benefit. If you are
the store is now equipped with a myriad of contempo- not a SOMA member, you will need to subscribe directly
rary features, including: to the JSOM at https://www.jsomonline.org/signup.php
to receive it quarterly. The JSOM is available in print
• Mobile Compatible—The site now displays nicely on and digital/tablet formats. The digital subscription al-
tablets and phones lows you to access all previous versions of the JSOM in
• Social Media Integration a flipbook format, as well as giving you full-text PDF
o You can now share products on your personal so- access to all of our easily searchable articles. We also
cial media pages offer a “multi-user” institutional / library subscription.
o You can also log into the site using your Facebook
profile information as your account If you are attending SOMSA, be sure to check out the
• Guest Checkout—You can now check out without National Tactical Medicine Competition (NTMC, Tac-
having to create an account medcompetition.com), which is being held again this
• List View of Products—You can now view more in- year during SOMSA on 21 May. It consists of 15 two-
formation about the product (abstracts, etc.) on the man teams that will compete among peers to prove
page by switching to list view physical and clinical abilities, while treating patients in
• Related Products—Individual articles are linked to a tactical environment. The teams are both civilian and
the journal edition from which they came. Viewing military and come from all over the United States and
the Journal will show you all the articles within that abroad. The NTMC is an event created to allow tactical
journal. medical providers from around the country the oppor-
tunity to gather, network, collaborate on best practices,
JSOM attended EMS Today in Salt Lake City, UT, in and compete in a community of peers.
February, where we made a lot of new acquaintances.
They offered over 240 conference sessions with 330 The National Tactical Medicine Competition is based
CEH opportunities. There were 46 counties represented on the Tactical Emergency Casualty Care guidelines and
and 2,269 first-time attendees. all simulated patient care will be in line with the cur-
rently approved guidelines. The Committee for Tactical
We are just around the corner from SOMSA, which is Emergency Casualty Care (C-TECC.org) supports the
being held 21–25 May in Charlotte, NC. The JSOM will NTMC.
be set up at booth 718 with the new, 10th Edition of the —Michelle DuGuay Landers
ATP-P Handbook available. This edition includes the

i