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Covid-19 and Ukrainian Crisis Exponentiates the Need for the Inclusion of Conflict and Disaster Medicine in Medical Curriculum

Conflict medicine is an age-old branch of medicine which focuses on delivering healthcare services to the injured in the setting of conflicts, wars, disasters, and/or other calamities. The course in its purest form has been traditionally given only in military medical schools while civilian medical...

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Autores principales: Jain, Nityanand, Prasad, Sakshi, Bordeniuc, Alina, Tanasov, Andrei, Cheuk, Chun Pong, Panag, Deepkanwar Singh, S´wia˛tek, Dorota, Platos, Emilia, Betka, Marta Maria, Senica, Simone Oliver, Patel, Shiv, Czárth, Zsófia Csenge, Jain, Shivani, Reinis, Aigars
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Publicado: SAGE Publications 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9052223/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35493964
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/23821205221096347
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author Jain, Nityanand
Prasad, Sakshi
Bordeniuc, Alina
Tanasov, Andrei
Cheuk, Chun Pong
Panag, Deepkanwar Singh
S´wia˛tek, Dorota
Platos, Emilia
Betka, Marta Maria
Senica, Simone Oliver
Patel, Shiv
Czárth, Zsófia Csenge
Jain, Shivani
Reinis, Aigars
author_facet Jain, Nityanand
Prasad, Sakshi
Bordeniuc, Alina
Tanasov, Andrei
Cheuk, Chun Pong
Panag, Deepkanwar Singh
S´wia˛tek, Dorota
Platos, Emilia
Betka, Marta Maria
Senica, Simone Oliver
Patel, Shiv
Czárth, Zsófia Csenge
Jain, Shivani
Reinis, Aigars
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description Conflict medicine is an age-old branch of medicine which focuses on delivering healthcare services to the injured in the setting of conflicts, wars, disasters, and/or other calamities. The course in its purest form has been traditionally given only in military medical schools while civilian medical students are usually taught parts of the course in other overlapping subjects like surgery, infectious diseases, etc. However, in a crisis situation, civilian doctors are expected to double up as military doctors, which leads to emotional, mental, and physical stress for the civilian doctors along with logistical and organizational challenges. The current Covid-19 pandemic and the Russo-Ukrainian conflict have highlighted once again the emergent need for the implementation of conflict medicine courses in regular medical curricula, so as to make the medical students situation-ready. With our present discussion, we aim to provide a brief overview of the course, its core modules, challenges to its implementation, and possible solutions. We believe that the complex management skills gained by this course are not only useful in conflict scenario but are also valuable in managing day-to-day medical emergencies.
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spelling pubmed-90522232022-04-30 Covid-19 and Ukrainian Crisis Exponentiates the Need for the Inclusion of Conflict and Disaster Medicine in Medical Curriculum Jain, Nityanand Prasad, Sakshi Bordeniuc, Alina Tanasov, Andrei Cheuk, Chun Pong Panag, Deepkanwar Singh S´wia˛tek, Dorota Platos, Emilia Betka, Marta Maria Senica, Simone Oliver Patel, Shiv Czárth, Zsófia Csenge Jain, Shivani Reinis, Aigars J Med Educ Curric Dev Commentary Conflict medicine is an age-old branch of medicine which focuses on delivering healthcare services to the injured in the setting of conflicts, wars, disasters, and/or other calamities. The course in its purest form has been traditionally given only in military medical schools while civilian medical students are usually taught parts of the course in other overlapping subjects like surgery, infectious diseases, etc. However, in a crisis situation, civilian doctors are expected to double up as military doctors, which leads to emotional, mental, and physical stress for the civilian doctors along with logistical and organizational challenges. The current Covid-19 pandemic and the Russo-Ukrainian conflict have highlighted once again the emergent need for the implementation of conflict medicine courses in regular medical curricula, so as to make the medical students situation-ready. With our present discussion, we aim to provide a brief overview of the course, its core modules, challenges to its implementation, and possible solutions. We believe that the complex management skills gained by this course are not only useful in conflict scenario but are also valuable in managing day-to-day medical emergencies. SAGE Publications 2022-04-26 /pmc/articles/PMC9052223/ /pubmed/35493964 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/23821205221096347 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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Jain, Nityanand
Prasad, Sakshi
Bordeniuc, Alina
Tanasov, Andrei
Cheuk, Chun Pong
Panag, Deepkanwar Singh
S´wia˛tek, Dorota
Platos, Emilia
Betka, Marta Maria
Senica, Simone Oliver
Patel, Shiv
Czárth, Zsófia Csenge
Jain, Shivani
Reinis, Aigars
Covid-19 and Ukrainian Crisis Exponentiates the Need for the Inclusion of Conflict and Disaster Medicine in Medical Curriculum
title Covid-19 and Ukrainian Crisis Exponentiates the Need for the Inclusion of Conflict and Disaster Medicine in Medical Curriculum
title_full Covid-19 and Ukrainian Crisis Exponentiates the Need for the Inclusion of Conflict and Disaster Medicine in Medical Curriculum
title_fullStr Covid-19 and Ukrainian Crisis Exponentiates the Need for the Inclusion of Conflict and Disaster Medicine in Medical Curriculum
title_full_unstemmed Covid-19 and Ukrainian Crisis Exponentiates the Need for the Inclusion of Conflict and Disaster Medicine in Medical Curriculum
title_short Covid-19 and Ukrainian Crisis Exponentiates the Need for the Inclusion of Conflict and Disaster Medicine in Medical Curriculum
title_sort covid-19 and ukrainian crisis exponentiates the need for the inclusion of conflict and disaster medicine in medical curriculum
topic Commentary
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9052223/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35493964
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/23821205221096347
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