Main tasks:

• Undergraduate education of medical students

• Postgraduate training of military medical specialists and surgeons

• Expertise and referential work for needs of the Czech Army

• Research

• Preparation of health personnel before foreign missions of the Czech Army

At present the Department of Field Surgery consists of two divisions – the Division of General Surgery and the Division of Traumatology and Burns Treatment. Besides working at each units of the Department of Surgery of the Teaching Hospital in Hradec Králové, the members of the Department perform both undergraduate courses in the discipline of field surgery for students of the Faculty of Military Health Sciences and postgraduate training of military doctors for their specialization exams in surgery and general medicine. The department also participates in teaching in the Battlefield Advanced Trauma Life Support (BATLS) courses, disaster medicine and the first aid courses, which are organized by the Faculty of Military Health Sciences for the Czech Army members. In the last several years, the department has played very important role in education and training of the personnel of the field hospitals operating in foreign missions (Yugoslavia, Bosnia, Albania, Afghanistan, Iraq). The members of the department also take part there. Research and publication activities are also essential part of the department work. The evidence of all above mentioned is particulary scientific success of the head of the department Assoc. Prof. A. Ferko, MD, Ph.D., who was awarded the prize in medical research by the Ministry of Health in 1998 and his monography was awarded the Maydls prize for the best publication in surgery in 1999.
 

Research Projects

LEPIDLO – Testing of possible use of cyanoacrylat tissue glues in high risk intestinal anastomoses
Páral, J., Plodr, M., Lochman, P., Šubrt, Z., Klein, L