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Article Type

Original Research

Authors

Rahmani   R. ()
Mehrvarz   Sh. (1)
Zare’ei   E. (2)
Abbaspour   A. (2)
Maleki   H. (2)
Ebrahimnia   M. (3)






() Faculty of Nursing, , , , Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
(1) Faculty of Medicine, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
(2) Faculty of Psychology & Education, Allameh Tabatabaei University, Tehran, Iran

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Article History

Received:   October  26, 2011
Accepted:   January 21, 2012
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ABSTRACT

Aims Military Medicine plays its role by providing the military forces’ health needs. Considering the growing trend of wars, terrorism and natural disasters, military medicine is evolving nowadays. The aim of this study was to design the Military Emergency Medicine curriculum in Iran.
Methods This study is a mixed method (qualitative and quantitative) research that its qualitative part was performed by review of global experiences on military medicine curriculum and tits quantitative part was carried out by collecting the view pints of national experts on the subject through the Delphi method. Data was collected by taking notes from several references and two researcher-made questionnaires. All “absolutely agree” or “relatively agree” viewpoints were selected as the curriculum elements and the confirmed curriculum was designed by experts and finally evaluated, reviewed and confirmed in an expert committee.
Results 92% of experts believed that establishing the Military Medicine course in Iran is essential and the major priority was identified as Military Emergency Medicine. The curriculum was designed in the form of a four-year period consisting of theoretical part (35 courses), clinical part (36 months of rotation) and the thesis research (6 courses).
Conclusion The four-year Military Emergency Medicine curriculum including 35 theoretical courses, a 36-month rotational clinical part and 6 courses of thesis research can play a dominant role in military medicine for training capable physicians in order to serve the injured people and critical patients in war conditions and accidents.


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