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Organization of the Health Care Service

Organization of the Health Care Service

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Exercises

Lectures

Seminar

Study Programmes

graduate
Military Engineering - study
Elective courses (1. semester)
Military Leadership and Management - study
Elective courses (1. semester)

Learning Outcomes

  1. Apply knowledge from the fields of military sciences, technique, and information technologies to planning necessary medical support.
  2. Plan staffing needs of the units regarding medical personnel, and replenishment needs regarding means of evacuation during defensive and attack operations.
  3. Write plans and orders for the implementation of necessary preventive measures in a unit.
  4. Plan providing a unit with first aid kits and supplies.
  5. Create first aid annual training plan for soldiers.
  6. Understand medical support scheme, and document creation based on it.

Forms of Teaching

Lectures

Familiarization with the role and importance of medical service in the armed forces, and its historical development. Overview of different medical service organization models, and consequences for the conduct of military operation outcomes. Familiarization with the changes in military health doctrine in modern warfare, and with the models for assessing medical support capacities required. Understanding the relationship between health care and logistics in the conduct of expedition operations, and in asymmetric war conflicts, with an emphasis on military-logistic issues.

Seminars and workshops

Plan for casualty evacuation from battlefield

Exercises

Medical support request creation Providing first aid Plan for providing a unit with medical supplies Disaster relief plan Medical support type decision making process

Other

Week by Week Schedule

  1. Introduction to medical support
  2. Introduction to the role and significance of the healthcare service in the armed forces, along with its historical development.
  3. Commander's responsibility for medical fitness of personnel
  4. Oral health protection measures
  5. The basics of medical logistics
  6. Basic first aid training programming and planning
  7. Mid-term exam 1
  8. Evacuation planning and organizing
  9. International humanitarian law
  10. Casualty estimates in operations
  11. Medical support planning in operations
  12. Mass casualty incident relief organization
  13. Armed forces preventive (medical and dental) health care
  14. Medical support components and branch specialties
  15. Mid-term exam 2

Literature

(.), AJP 4.10 Medical Support Doctrine ed B.,
(.), AJMedP-1 Allied Joint Medical Planning Doctrine,
(.), MC 326/2 NATO Principles and Policies of Operational Medical Support,
(.), Pravilnik o zdravstvenoj potpori u OS RH (NN 134/15),
(.), Program posebne zdravstvene zaštite pripadnika OS RH koji sudjeluju u OPM,
(.), HRVN 2122 Temeljna obuka iz zbrinjavanja stradalih i osnova higijene cjelokupnog vojnog osoblja (AMedP-8.15),
(.), HRVN 2126 Sredstva i kompleti za prvu pomoć i hitnu medicinsku pomoć,

For students

General

ID 282228
  Winter semester
3.0 ECTS
L0 English Level
L1 e-Learning
30 Lectures
5 Seminar
10 Exercises