Open AccessMilitary Surgeon - an Endangered Profession in the Czech Army?
Author(s) -
Petr Lochman,
Antonín Novotný
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
vojenské rozhledy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2336-2995
pISSN - 1210-3292
DOI - 10.3849/2336-2995.29.2020.02.049-061
Subject(s) - czech , preparedness , multinational corporation , economic shortage , political science , endangered species , military medicine , questionnaire , medicine , law , environmental health , sociology , government (linguistics) , population , philosophy , linguistics , social science
The Czech Army Military Medical Service is actually going through radical changes that could lead to the strong enhancement of its capabilities. The problem is a shortage of health personell in some specific medical branches to fulfill these ambitions. There are only 35 surgeons in the Czech army at present. Results of questionnaire survey performed in this group show a high level and preparedness for multinational deploytment in foreign missions, on the other hand put a lot of questions for future.