On the 21 - 25 of November 2011, the Thematic Course "Emergency and Disaster Medicine Issues " for medical workers of main and departmental offices of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine was held on the basis of educational and recreational complex "Chervona Kalina", I.Ya.Horbachevsky Ternopil State Medical University

The Course was participated by representatives of all regional centers of Ukraine, Crimea Republic, Kyiv and Sevastopol. The program was organized by the Department of Emergency and Disaster Medicine with the course of military training at the request of the Department of Health and Rehabilitation, Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine. Course Leader – the Head.of the Department, Doctor of. Medical Sciences, Professor Arsen Gudyma.

Considerable assistance in organizing and conducting the course was provided by Medical Care Sector of MIA of Ukraine in Ternopil region, headed by Police Lt. Michael Vasylyshyn.

The aim of these training was to learn the principles of new technologies of first aid and methods of teaching for non-medical staff – the police workers, as the members of the Course have a strong desire to establish such kind of police training centers of first aid in every region of Ukraine with an opportunity to receive an appropriate certificate.

During five days of training, the members had considered all the aspects of theoretical and practical skills of first aid in accordance to the syllabus for non-medical staff approved by Ministry of Public Health of Ukraine.

They were offered modern technologies of educational activities, which included the standard of training center equipment (models, mannequins, training tables, etc.), methods of teaching for non-medical staff in accordance to modern European approaches, information technology of training.

It was documented all the ways of practical skills implementation: a lot of video and photo presentations were created.

Every participant received Course information package which included that photo and video presentations with necessary amount of information for non-medical staff teaching.

The emphasis of the Course was focused on the techniques of cardiopulmonary resuscitation and automated defibrillation according to the standards of the European Resuscitation Council, 2010. Becides, the participants were demonstrated the principles and techniques of first aid at car accidents, labors, transport immobilization. Psychological aspects of first aid in individual and mass casualties were discussed.

The members of training were presented with a lecture and had a possibility to practice with the skills of resuscitation techniques using a unique phantom, able to simulate fatal cardiac arrhythmia.

Another day was dedicated to the aspects of disaster medicine. The attention of partisipants was focused on personal safety principles during emergencies in a peacetime as well as on modern techniques of organization and medical care providing during mass casualties.

At the base of International Nursing School all the participants learned how to prepare slide presentations using pre-prepared illustrations. It was developed 15 presentations, covering almost the entire course of first aid. In fact, the members of training brought home a full course of lectures dedicated to the principles of first aid in the form of slide presentations.

The organization team: I Gerasimiv, MD, PhD, the Deputy Head of Emergency and Disaster Medicine Department with the course of military training, the Head of the Studies Department, P Levitskyy, MD, PhD, R. Lyahovich MD, PhD , I. Panas, senior analyst and V. Sokolvak, the Head of Department.

Grate contribution in the organization of training was made by S. Heryak, the Head of Obstetrics and Gynaecology № 2 Department, Doctor of. Medical Sciences, Professor, N. Petrenko, professor assistant, MD, PhD, O. Venger, professor assistant, MD, PhD , Department of Neurology, Psychiatry, Narcology and Medical Psychology, T. Guseva, professor assistant, MD, PhD of the same department. Special thanks to the Director of International Nursing School Svitlana Yastremska.

During the last day of training, the participants visited several picturesque places and memorials of Ternopil region.