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| Medical background on Ft. Hood shooter |
| 2009-11-06 |
| by Steve White This is a compilation of comments I made yesterday evening on the Burg. From the This Ain't Hell blog, here is Major Hasan's officer record brief. The social security number has been blacked out by someone. I can't vouch for its veracity. From the officer brief, Dr. Nidal Malik Hasan has this medical training: 1 year as an intern, starting 2003 3 years as a psychiatry resident, starting 2004 2 years as a psychiatry fellow, starting 2007 and ending 7/1/09 Dr. Hasan was a fellow at the Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress. The CSTS is part of the Uniformed Services University Of The Health Sciences and serves as an academic unit dedicated to treatment and research in traumatic stress disorders with an emphasis on military personnel. I do not know if a 2 year fellowship is a standard fellowship for this program, but in many places a 1 or 2 year fellowship is considered the norm. From 7/16/09 he's assigned as a staff psychiatrist to Ft. Hood. According to the State of Virginia Board of Medicine link on Dr. Hasan, last updated 10/13/09, Dr. Hasan is not certified in any specialty, and has no complaints and no judgments against him. I am not sure why he's not board certified; if he finished his residency in 2007 he would have taken their exam in either '07 or '08. Per the American Board of Psychiatry, he would have to pass both the written and oral exam. Per the ABP listing of new diplomates for 2008 and 2009 (several PDF files), Dr. Hasan is not listed, which means he did not pass the board exam in either of those years. He might have done so in 2007, and the initial diplomate lists for that year are not available on the website. |
| Posted by:Steve White |
