The politician’s view is expressed in your Jan. 12 article “Med schools will offer more PTSD, TBI courses,” on the effort to teach medical students about traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress disorder, but nothing from the medical community is included.

As a physician who has practiced in both Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom, I think this political effort is misplaced. Medical students are already inundated with politically driven training, e.g. geriatrics. Many medical students will go into medical specialties where this training will not be utilized or remembered. It would be more cost-effective and beneficial if the focus was on residency training programs that focus on primary-care teaching. Family physicians, pediatricians, internists and emergency medicine physicians are the ones who need this training. I’m not sure why medical students would be targeted.