The inter-university certificate “Humanitarian surgery in austere environments” is a program comprising:
- A preparatory work by the student
- 90 hours of classes given face-to-face and in English
Preparatory work by the student
- Review of human anatomy, with particular respect to musculo-skeletal and vascular anatomy (75 h)
- International Humanitarian Laws – IHL (ICRC e-learning training Centre) (15 h)
- a) Basic rules and principles of IHL (8 modules with evaluation)
- b) Thematic module 1: health care in danger, the legal framework
- c) Thematic module 2: rights and responsibilities of health-care personnel in armed conflicts and other emergencies C) * ICRC textbooks (2 volumes) on war surgery (75 h)
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* ICRC textbooks (2 volumes) on war surgery (75 h)
* Manuel de Chirurgie humanitaire [Manual for Humanitarian Surgery] (M. Ledecq, éditions Lavoisier)
* Top Knife. The art and craft of trauma surgery (Hirshberg & Mattox, Castle Hill Barns editors)
Humanitarian Surgery Course
- Course program (90 h)
- Introduction to humanitarian medicine and surgery
- War surgery module
- Resuscitation and anaesthesia module
- Head, neck and spine surgery module
- Plastic surgery module
- Thoracic surgery module
- Vascular surgery module
- Abdominal surgery module
- Urologic surgery module
- Obstetrics module
- Paediatric surgery module
- Orthopaedic trauma
- Logistics, pharmaceutics and specific questions
- Hands-on lab
- Evaluation
- Course study (40 h)
- Course evaluation (5 h)