Artistic Effort and Special Effects Enhance Medical Training

Latex paint and an assortment of makeup and brushes filled the end of a large table in a breakroom at Navy Medicine Readiness Training Unit (NMRTU) Everett. The room usually functions as a location for the occasional meeting, training exercise, or a place for staff members to dine during the day.

Instead of lunching at the table, Hospitalman Tonii Farmer, assigned to NMRTU Everett, is using the breakroom as a space to share her creative ability in the decidedly untraditional art form of moulage.

Moulage – a French term - is the skillful ability of fashioning mock injuries with lifelike materia...