Due to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the unmet medical and psychological needs of military personnel are creating major challenges. Increasingly, active duty military personnel are seeking physical and mental health services from civilian professionals. The Civilian Medical Resources Network attempts to address these unmet needs. Participants in the Network include primary care and mental h...

Nuclear medicine is defined, and its development as a specialty in Victoria from the 1940s to the 1990s recorded, with the developing use of radioisotopes in investigations and treatment. The combined efforts of medical, scientific, and technical personnel is emphasised, together with the advances in instrumentation and radiopharmacy. The formation of the Australian and New Zealand Society for ...

Lethal weaponry and tactics used by enemy forces in Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom have resulted in complex multisystem injury patterns among US allied military personnel engaged in combat operations. Military medical personnel deployed in support of these campaigns have had to maintain a high degree of clinical skill to effectively render care to wounded combatants, a necessity ...

introduction: many organizations, especially service oriented ones, relative to their goals and mission, have a special view towards quality phenomena and its management. methods: this paper analyzes medical service quality in one case the internal section of shaheed rahnemoon hospital based on the basis of gap analysis model and servqual technique. a questionnaire was designed and applied to m...

Simulation offers the most efficient adjunct in education and “refresher” training of medical personnel. However, simulation devices and facilities are expensive and the combination of cost, distance from the training centers, and professional constraints prevent medical personnel in rural and remote regions from simulation-based training. We have demonstrated that fiscal and logistic barriers ...

BACKGROUND Multinational peacekeepers, both military and civilian, often deploy to areas of the world where significant health threats are endemic and host country public health systems are inadequate. Medical surveillance of deployed personnel enables leaders to better direct health care resources to prevent and treat casualties. Over a 5-month period, June to October 1995, a medical surveilla...