Urgent Problems of Teaching Military Medicine at Departments of the Therapeutic Profile and Ways to Solve Them

Abstract

The change in the military-political situation in the country and the full-scale war of russia against Ukraine presented society, the medical community, and educators with new tasks and challenges [1], the first of which is the optimization of the teaching of military medicine and military therapy, in particular, since the initial training of a military specialist begins at master's level. In addition, civilian healthcare facilities are now under a considerable burden [2] due to the modern inhumane war in violation of all norms and humanitarian principles, which causes the need for changes in the teaching of military therapy and its adaptation to current foreign guidelines, in particular, which determined the relevance and practicality of our work.The aim of the study.Outline essential components of the problems of teaching military therapy at the departments of the therapeutic profile of institutions of higher medical education. Main part.The problems of teaching military therapy can be summarized into three main ones. First of all, it is necessary to decide on the name of the discipline, regarding which there are still disagreements. We fully agree with the conclusion of a thorough scientific study by Major General of m/s, Professor M.P. Boychak: «If the phrase «military-field» was already obsolete for Oppel V.A. and Yudina S.S. almost 100 years ago, if M.I. Pirogov, who proposed this term, did not use it himself, if the chief therapist of the Red Army M.S. Vovsi, the main therapists of the fronts, the army therapists of the Second World War hardly used it, if the founder of the russian clinical medicine Mudrov M.Ya. almost 300 years ago spoke about «military therapy», and our outstanding compatriot A. Charukovskii spoke at the same time about «diseases of the army», and what should we do with future NATO partners if they, and indeed nowhere in the world, no longer use the term «military-field» does not have