Organization of the Health Care Service
Organization of the Health Care Service
Lecturers
Exercises
Lectures
Seminar
Study Programmes
graduate
Learning Outcomes
- Apply knowledge from the fields of military sciences, technique, and information technologies to planning necessary medical support.
- Plan staffing needs of the units regarding medical personnel, and replenishment needs regarding means of evacuation during defensive and attack operations.
- Write plans and orders for the implementation of necessary preventive measures in a unit.
- Plan providing a unit with first aid kits and supplies.
- Create first aid annual training plan for soldiers.
- Understand medical support scheme, and document creation based on it.
Forms of Teaching
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 workshopsPlan for casualty evacuation from battlefield
ExercisesMedical support request creation Providing first aid Plan for providing a unit with medical supplies Disaster relief plan Medical support type decision making process
OtherWeek by Week Schedule
- Introduction to medical support
- Introduction to the role and significance of the healthcare service in the armed forces, along with its historical development.
- Commander's responsibility for medical fitness of personnel
- Oral health protection measures
- The basics of medical logistics
- Basic first aid training programming and planning
- Mid-term exam 1
- Evacuation planning and organizing
- International humanitarian law
- Casualty estimates in operations
- Medical support planning in operations
- Mass casualty incident relief organization
- Armed forces preventive (medical and dental) health care
- Medical support components and branch specialties
- Mid-term exam 2