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The Faculty of Military Health Sciences (FMHS) of the University of Defence in Hradec Králové is a centre of medical education, training and research of the Army of the Czech Republic. It entirely covers the needs of the troops concerning medical professional training in all specializations, medical informatics, science and research. 1. Education The main aims of the FMHS in the field of education were as follows:
According to the needs of the Surgeon General of the Czech Armed Forces and the Military Medical Service Administration, the Faculty ensures specialized and lifelong education of doctors, pharmacists and other military medical service personnel in specified branches of the Act No. 95/2004 of the Code about conditions of receiving professional qualification and specialized qualification to do a medical profession as a doctor, a stomatologist, and a pharmacist. It unifies the system of their training with requirements of EU. The faculty organizes and provides the training for medical personnel in active service, doctors, nurses and other medical personnel. The faculty provides professional refresher courses for medical staff, non-medical staff and non-medical personnel of field medical units- hospital base and its units in selected up-to-date topics. It takes part in continued training of doctors and health care personnel, who are sent to missions abroad as well. Unique military know-how is attractive for people, who work out of the military health care sphere. The FMHS provides courses of advanced first aid in the field not only for Military Medical Service personnel but also for professional non-medical personnel of Military Police units, reconnaissance and special units within the frame of the Czech Armed Forces, Rapid Reaction Units of the Czech Republic Police and the others. All soldiers assigned to include into foreign missions take part in extra courses of advanced first aid. Training of emergency life support in field conditions is required in medical personnel. The courses BATLS / BARTS (Battlefield Advanced Trauma Life Support) and BARTS (Battlefield Advanced Resuscitation Techniques and Skills) for doctors and nurses or health care personnel are enlarged on the problems of NBC protection and they become a significant standard not only for the whole medical service, but also for a lot of other specialists, who take part in foreign missions. Other courses concentrate on teaching and training of comprehensive knowledge necessary for providing medical care within the frame of Disaster Medicine. The FMHS also provides 58 other teaching and training activities determined by „The Plan of Courses and Professional Residencies Training of the Czech Armed Forces Medical Service“ and „Notification of Director of Personal Section of the Ministry of Defence – Teaching Activities at Military schools and Training Facilities in the Czech Republic and Abroad“. It participates in medical personnel training of medical and non-medical specializations under the methodical and professional leadership, in providing instructors for training of higher cathegories of medical personnel and in teaching instructors of lower medical specialists training. 2. Scientific and research work The FMHS of the University of Defence provides and solves research tasks for the Czech Armed Forces Medical Service. It managed to set up scientific teams which are able to use advanced laboratory technologies. It has its own complex laboratory technologies for scientific work above all within the sphere of life force protection against NBC agents. The high scientific level and the achieved results in scientific and research activities of present teams have enabled to start scientific cooperation with foreign partners. The FMHS is the only one in the Czech Republic who provides military research within the sphere of CBRNE issues in NATO and EU. The high level of the present teams has enabled to start scientific cooperation with partners in NATO countries, which is financed by the NATO and EU funds. Within the sphere of the science and research, the FMHS fulfilled strategic purposes of the Czech Armed Forces transformation by targeting the enunciated priorities (biological agents, chemical agents, military health care), furthermore it reached joining the appropriate institutions and organizational structures of NATO and EU countries (including drawing financial NATO and EU funds) and it gained some priority results in enunciated areas. From the point of view of specialization and direction of the Czech Armed Forces, the departments of the FMHS solve medical issues of biological, chemical and radiation protection. Previous as well as contemporary scientific production within the sphere of observation of medical aspects of NBC agents affection is the subject „Centre of Advanced Studies“ with CBRNE protection issues in the Army of the Czech Republic. It fully corresponds with set priorities in the field of scientific and research work of the Army of the Czech Republic. The military medical service organization and management, information systems, research activities of clinical and therapeutic preventive branches are the other important fields of scientific work. A lot of invitations and speeches at international symposia and conferences as well as a great number of publications prove that scientific knowledge is used in education. The FMHS personnel can publish achieved results in research work, therapeutic preventive activities and in educational activities in the journal "Vojenské zdravotnické listy" (Military Medical Journal), which is the oldest military specialized journal which has been being published since 1927. Together with professional scientific and pedagogical activities there are also results in lecture and publication areas. They are a part of evaluation, which is carried out annually. The faculty is successful in keeping a good level of publication activities in impact factor journals and in other national and foreign journals with review proceedings. This fact enables relatively wide training activities in accredited doctoral study programmes. Nowadays the Faculty participates in 20 projects of defence research, 3 projects of Internal Grant Agency of the Ministry of Health, 4 project of the Ministry of Education, 4 projects of the Grant Agency of the Czech Republic, 2 foreign projects (NATO, EC). The total sum of research grants represents the amount of 70,3 mil. Czech Crowns. The accreditation award for the Vivarium in the field of biological and medical science is an important step to realize a lot of research and experimental work on laboratory animals. Scientific, research and development activities in the field of medical support include prevention, diagnosis and treatment of sick and wounded. An integral part of this work is to improve the system of medical equipment administration and supply support. Research and development is carried out at 9 departments (Epidemiology, Field Internal Medicine, Field Surgery, General and Emergency Medicine, Military Hygiene, Military Medical Service Organization, Public Health, Radiobiology, Toxicology) and in the Institute of Molecular Pathology, and the Centre of Advanced Studies. In 2008, scientific work at the faculty departments and the institutes was focused on CBRNE protection research, prevention in hygiene and epidemiology, topical problems of field surgery and field internal medicine, topical problems of organization, management, education and information science in the Military Medical Service. The received accreditation for proceedings to promote a professorship for the branches of Hygiene, Occupational Medicine, Epidemiology, Toxicology, Field Internal Medicine and Molecular Pathology and the accreditation for habilitation (associate professor) in the branches of Hygiene, Occupational Medicine and Epidemiology, Toxicology, Field Surgery, Military Radiobiology, Field Internal Medicine and Molecular Pathology gives the evidence about the excellent level of achieved results in scientific and research activities of FMHS. In 2008 there were 11 professors (prof.), 11associate professors (doc.), 4 doctors of science (DrSc.), 52 persons with research degrees (CSc., Ph.D.) who carried out teaching and research tasks. 3. Therapeutic activities Special therapeutic activities were provided especially at the departments of Field Internal Medicine, Field Surgery and General and Emergency Medicine. Close cooperation between these subjects and the health service establishments in the region were more and more developed. Therapeutic activities were provided, especially in the field of hematologic intensive care, traumatology, hepatobiliary surgery, and at the plastic surgery departments of internal medicine and surgery, at the Teaching Hospital. In the field of general and emergency medicine there were ongoing therapeutic activities within the framework of the Garrison Medical Centre and Emergency Medical Department. 4. International cooperation The main aims of international cooperation of the FMHS were to exchange scientific, educational and therapeutic information and to develop working contacts between military medical, medical educational and research institutions of the NATO and PfP member countries as well as civilian medical institutions with educational, defence research and development programmes. Residency and exchange programmes for numerous students, doctors and research workers took place at those institutions. As for study programmes, the Faculty keeps close relations with partner educational institutions above all in NATO and PfP countries. Every year there are exchanges of not only students but also of pedagogical staff with the Military Medical Academy (ESSA) in Lyons in France, contacts in pedagogical sphere are kept with partner schools in Germany (Sanitätsakademie der Bundeswehr, Munich), the Military Medical Academy in Sofia, Bulgaria. In the past there were contacts with schools in Lódź (Poland) and Beograd (Serbia). Students take part in study stays in France, Slovakia, Germany, Sweden, Switzerland, England and in the frame of Erasmus programme in other states. 5. Expert activities The membership in work groups for coordination and cooperation of military medical research and professional training at NATO (COMEDS, BIOMEDAC, RTA/RTO) and at EDA (European Defence Agency), in work groups of government experts for the Convention on the prohibition of biological, bacteriological, and chemical weapons and their destruction in Geneva and UNO, organizing scientific conferences with international participation, and solving foreign research projects under the cooperation of the FMHS personnel are very important for presentation of international cooperation results. At the FMHS there are conditions for foreign cooperation in medical research. The priority still remains in cooperation in the frame of the Human Factors Medicine of the NATO Research and Technology Organization and its work groups (TG, WG), cooperation in research projects with other foreign scientific institutions and participation in projects of 7th EU General Programme. Our aim is to intensify international cooperation in NATO focused on scientific support of the armed forces structure. 6. Scientific and educational information services Scientific and educational information services that support the whole Medical Service of the Czech Republic Army were provided by the Centre of Information Technologies. Numerous literature retrievals, courses, library and printing workshops and other information services support for students, teachers, scientists, postgraduates, doctors, nurses and other medical experts were carried out. 7. Foreign missions The FMHS performed the preparation of health personnel for humanitarian and peacekeeping missions as in the preceding years. In 2008 five FMHS members took part in the foreign missions. |