Military Medical Personnel’s Perceptions of Treating Battle Injuries
Abstract Purpose: To evaluate military personnel’s self-rated perceptions of their knowledge, experience and training after high-fidelity battle injury simulation. Design: 26 military medical personnel participated in this quantitative study. Data was collected using a questionnaire after a six-day exercise where participants self-rated 10 statements regarding having sufficient medical, practical and ethical knowledge, experience and training. […]
Incorporating Reflective Practice as an Assessment Tool in the Training of New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) Medics
Incorporating Reflective Practice as an Assessment Tool in the Training of New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) Medics Wendy Maddocks Abstract The New Zealand Defence Health Directorate changed its strategic vision in 2016 in the way the New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) provides medic training. This change provided an opportunity to analyse the value of using […]
Futuristic Utilization of Tactical Night Vision Goggles in Darkness by Combat Medics
Sedat BILGE M.D. Emergency Physician Specialist (sedatotuz@gmail.com), Gulhane Research and Training Hospital, Department of Emergency Medicine, Etlik, Ankara, Turkey, 06010 Attila AYDIN M.D. Emergency Physician Specialist (drattilaaydin@gmail.com), Gulhane Research and Training Hospital, Department of Emergency Medicine, Etlik, Ankara, Turkey, 06010 Cemile AYDIN M.D. Internal Medicine Specialist (drcemileaydin@gmail.com), Etimesgut State Hospital, Department of Internal Medicine, Etimesgut, […]
Would That White Coat Were Purple
Wing Commander Tony Austin RAAF A traditional Chinese curse goes something like this: ‘May you live in interesting times’. If it be so, then we are all most certainly cursed for those are indeed very interesting times. Economic reality has hit the military hard the buzz word for the 90’s is ‘downsizing’ and the military […]