The education mission of the army medical department January – March 2014 Perspectives 1 MG Steve Jones; COL Mustapha Debboun; Richard Burton What is the Value of Graduate Education? An Economic Analysis of 7 Army Medical Department Graduate Programs LTC Lee W. Bewley; Kevin D. Broom, PhD; LTC Mark Bonica Incorporation of Learning Styles into the Graduate Program in Nutrition Curriculum 14 MAJ Renee E. Cole; LTC Reva L Rogers; Maj Heidi L. Clark, USAF; LTC (Ret) Lori D. Sigrist An Active Learning Approach to Bloom’s Taxonomy: 2 Games, 2 Classrooms, 2 Methods 21 MAJ Fred K. Weigel; LTC Mark Bonica Impact of an Innovative Clinical Internship Model in the US Army-Baylor 30 Doctoral Program in Physical Therapy COL Josef H. Moore; CPT Kathleen T. Glenesk; CPT David K. Hulsizer; et al The Army Social Work Internship Program: Training Today’s Uniformed Social Worker 35 COL (Ret) Reginald W. Howard US Army Veterinary Corps First Year Graduate Veterinary Education Program 39 COL Erik H. Torring; LTC Wendy Mey Achieving Army Nursing Evidence-Based Practice Competencies 42 Through a Civilian-Military Nurse Partnership LTC Leilani A. Siaki; Debra D. Mark, PhD, RN; COL Denise L. Hopkins-Chadwick Infusing Evidence-Based Instructional Strategies to Prepare 52 Today’s Military Practical Nurses for Tomorrow’s Practice Richard A. Neilson, MHA, RN; COL Denise L. Hopkins-Chadwick The Effects of Using a Human Patient Simulator Compared to a CD-ROM in 59 Teaching Critical Thinking and Performance Don Johnson, PhD, RN; Sabine Johnson, MS Raising the Educational Standard for Army Nursing Faculty 65 COL Bruce A. Schoneboom; COL Denise L. Hopkins-Chadwick Legal Education for Army Medical Department Leaders and Soldiers 68 MAJ Joseph B. Topinka Innovating to Integrate the Intangibles into the Learning Air Force 77 Capt Benjamin T. Hazen, USAF; MAJ Fred K. Weigel, USA; Maj Robert E. Overstreet, USAF To Change or Not to Change a Multiple Choice Answer 86 Don Johnson, PhD, RN; Susan Anderson, MSN, RN; Sabine Johnson, MS Pediatric Surgery and Medicine for Hostile Environments 89 A New Volume in the Borden Institute Textbooks of Military Medicine Series CAPT (Ret) Bradley Poss, USN Abstracts and Winning Poster Presented at the Graduate School 3rd Annual Research Day, 91 Academy of Health Sciences, US Army Medical Department Center & School