PRACTICAL DAMAGE SURGERY COURSES - A MODERN APPROACH TO TRAINING MILITARY SURGEONS

The training of military surgeons to assist the wounded is one of the fundamental directions for improving the medical support of troops. One of the most effective forms of training surgeons in the treatment of severe wounds and injuries is considered to be continuing education courses in trauma centers of the first level. For military surgeons this center is the Department of Field Surgery of the Military Medical Academy named after S.M. Kirov. However, in recent years, due to the steady decrease in the number of incoming wounded, the demonstrativeness of the educational process, the possibility of real participation of students in the treatment process have decreased. To increase the efficiency of training of military surgeons, to improve their manual skills, it is necessary to introduce new forms of training. The most promising of them is the introduction of combined practical courses using simulators and real tissues. The first such course in Russia was practical course on damage surgery SMART (Modern Methods and Algorithms for the Treatment of Wounds and Injuries), created by the teaching staff of the Department of Military Surgery of the Military Medical Academy named after S.M. Kirov, during course participants were given the opportunity to listen to a short lecture cycle on pressing issues of damage surgery and military field surgery, as well as to work out the most relevant life-saving surgical operations and manipulations that form the basis of Damage Control tactics. The aim of the study was to substantiate the introduction of practical courses for surgeons on issues of field surgery and to evaluate their efficiency. The efficiency of the SMART training course has been proven by testing the initial and final level of knowledge of 55 participants.

field surgery, trauma, injury, training of surgeons, manual skills, biological objects