Has Current French Training for Military Orthopedic Surgeons Deployed in External Operations Been Appropriately Adapted?

Discussion: The large variety and technical nature of the performed operations requires the training of highly qualified military orthopedic surgeons with both experience in war surgery and management of after-effects and complications. Orthopedists are also required to carry out procedures dealing with neurosurgery, general, and/or vascular surgery on missions. These data highlight the complexity of military surgeons' training along with the hyper-specialization of the civilian medical world. For more than 10 yr, French military surgeons have benefited from a training program called ACDS to meet these objectives. This initial training seems to be appropriated adapted in view of the managed pathologies. PMID: 29547944 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Military Medicine - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Mil Med Source Type: research