In Medical Corps International Forum (MCIF) 2/2008 we started this new column “Presentation of a National Military Medical Journal” and introduced the “Nederlands Militair Geneeskundig…
The main objective of the ICMM is to ensure that our medical services personnel have the means to work together, using similar practices, in operations involving international cooperation. This is a…
Imagine a virtual world where U.S. soldiers can walk the roads of Iraq with a standard issued M-4 in hand, feel the shockwave from an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) blast, experience the feeling…
The modern day battlefield has seen exponential modernization in medical technology, with diagnostic imaging among the fastest developing. This rapid technological epidemic has driven educational…
The current domination of urban warfare in the most crisis regions of the world is also having a proportional effect on the current trauma patterns of casualties of the German Bundeswehr in foreign…
The establishment of the Bundeswehr Joint Medical Service response forces required an adaptation of the Medical Service operational logistics organization to the possible operational options. A new…
The profound changes the Bundeswehr Joint Medical Service has undergone due to the extension of its task spectrum since the end of the East-West confrontation and its involvement in peacekeeping and…
The Naval Medical Expertise Centre of the Royal Netherlands Navy has been founded recently. The primary objective was to combine all operational medical knowledge and expertise in the Navy: aviation…
All expertise that the Netherlands Armed Forces has in the area of man in military aviation has since 2002 been gathered under one roof at the Kampweg in Soesterberg in what we call the Center for…
In the policies of the Netherlands Surgeon General it is stated that the medical care during out of area operation should be the same as when the operation would have taken place in the Netherlands.…
The Military Rehabilitation Centre (MRC) is the oldest rehabilitation centre in the Netherlands. It was founded immediately after the second World War (September 1946). It is located in the middle of…
The Defence organisation and the Ministry of Public Health, Welfare and Sport jointly run the Major Incident Hospital as a cooperative arrangement. The hospital, forming part of the Central Military…
The Institute for Defence and Partnership Hospitals (Instituut samenwerking Defensie en Relatieziekenhuizen, IDR ) coordinates the cooperation between the Armed Forces and the participating civilian…
As the editor in chief of the Netherlands Journal of Military Medicine it is a honour to introduce the Military Healthcaresystem Netherlands Armed Forces. To keep you as a interested reader I will…
DEVELOPMENTS WITHIN THE HEALTH CARE BRANCH GROUP Because of the 10th anniversary of the Health Care Branch Group, the editorial board asked the Commander, Brigadier Van der Meer, to write “The…
MCI project manager Olaf Kortenhoff again visited an activity of the International Committee of Military Medicine (CIMM/ICMM). The International Military Medical Symposium (IMMS) was co-hosted by…
From 21 to 24 April 2008 Defence Services Asia (DSA 2008)was presented in the Putra World Trade Center (PWTC) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. This exhibition, which this year was organized for the 11th…
Military medical issues must be continually brought into line with the military mission and with changing operational and tactical conditions in the theater of operations. Throughout the German AOR…
For some time now, the Medical Corps of the German Bundeswehr has required its surgical medical officers to acquire a broader training profile and range of skills to ensure that there is marked…
Due to developments in expenses, the focus is increasingly on the provision of drugs and medical devices in the hospitals of the German Armed Forces. In addition, the scarcity of funds in the defence…
The benefits of using flight simulators to train army helicopter pilots are undermined by the potential onset of health-related symptoms in the form of simulator sickness, a syndrome that is…
Beta-Verlag received a visit in December 2007 from The Netherlands’ former Surgeon General Commodore-Vliegerarts Albert-Jan van Leusden and his successor Brigade-Generaal-Arts Rob van der Meer. The…
Interview with Lt. General Dato' (DR) Sulaiman Bin Abdullah (Malaysia)
The Joint Medical Planners Course (JMPC) prepares officers for a NATO medical planner’s appointment through a combination of lectures and practical hands on experience. During the week students…
The following contribution is based on my experiences and findings during my deployment between August 2006 and January 2007 as Deputy Medical Adviser (deputy department manager of the medical…
During the 18th Asia Pacific Military Medical Conference (APMMC) in Singapore, Col MC Joachim Hoitz (MD) – by invitation of the Organizing Committee – reported on the subject respiratory tract…
Interview with the chief of SAF Medical Corps, RADM Dr. Wong
From 14 - 18 April 2008 the 18th APMMC took place in Singapore, Shangri-La Hotel. APMMC is an annual regional forum for military professionals to exchange experiences about the recent challenges of…
We think it is time to consider a closer cooperation between the Medical Corps International Forum (MCIF) and the International Committee of Military Medicine (ICMM). We have recognised that the ICMM…
Doppelt Grund zur Freude beim Bundeswehrkrankenhaus Hamburg: Offizielle Verleihung eines Gütesiegels und das 50-jährige Bestehen - im Jubiläumsjahr des nördlichsten Bundeswehrkrankenhauses.
Anlässlich des 50-jährigen Bestehens des Bundeswehrkrankenhauses Hamburg hatte die Bürgerschaft in den Großen Festsaal des Rathauses geladen. Vor über 300 Gästen verlieh der…
Im Rahmen eines offiziellen Besuches vertiefte der Inspekteur des Sanitätsdienstes der französischen Streitkärfte, Generalleutnant Bernard Lafont, am 9. und 10. April sein Wissen über den…
So könnte man den veränderten Weg zum Erfolg in der zahnärztlichen Praxis beschreiben. Entsprechend aufgebaut sind die Seminare von „yd² young dentists“, dem neuen Nachwuchsprogramm des…
Die Deutsch-Französischen Brigade ist eine im Heer einzigartige, binationale und leichte Infanteriebrigade, die insbesondere zu Anfangsoperationen im Auftrag der Europäischen Union aber auch zu…