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ABOUT THE NATIONAL CAPITAL CONSORTIUM

The National Capital Consortium (NCC) is the sponsoring institution for all military Graduate Medical Education programs in the National Capital Region (Maryland, Northern Virginia and Washington, D.C) and is the largest GME sponsor for the Military Health System, educating physicians, dentists, and other healthcare professionals who care for soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines of all ages, and their families. 

The NCC includes USU and WRNMMC, as well as the Malcolm Grow Medical Clinics & Surgery Center, Joint Base Andrews, MD, and Fort Belvoir Community Hospital, Fort Belvoir, VA. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is in immediate proximity to the Bethesda campus, and numerous reciprocal clinical and educational opportunities are available to fellows.

Currently the NCC sponsors 66 programs with ~700 trainees. All programs and the institution are fully accredited. For the last academic year, the NCC had a 98% Board Certification pass rate for first time board takers. In addition, the 528 key clinical faculty had 431 publications, 1127 conference presentations and 144 book chapters published. The residents/fellows had 188 publications; 826 conference presentations and 42 book chapters published.

The mission of the NCC is to education and generate physicians, dentists, and other healthcare professionals to care for Soldiers, Sailors, Airman, and Marines of all ages, and their families. Through their diverse training, these military health care providers are the premier platform of expert clinicians trained in the scope of practice required to support the healthcare needs of military operational forces and humanitarian missions. NCC trainees are prepared to be adaptable and effective leaders throughout their careers.

We aim to be our nation’s preeminent institution for educating and generating physicians, dentists, and other health care professionals to care for soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines of all ages, and their families.

Enhance all NCC programs by:

• Improving 1st time Board Pass Rates for NCC GME programs below 80%
• Incorporating DEI principles into the academic curriculum of all programs
• Achieving >95% resident satisfaction on the ACGME Resident Survey
• Achieving 100% resident compliance with clinical and educational work hour rules