The Ministry of Health of Ukraine and the World Bank continue the professional training of medical workers of emergency medical assistance (EMS) teams within the framework of a large-scale educational project. Already the third group of emergency medicine specialists from different regions of Ukraine completed the training.
This course is the first stage of a large-scale educational project that continues the transformation of the emergency medical care system. The project will be implemented from October 2022 in cooperation with the Ternopil National Medical University named after I. Ya. Gorbachevsky.
It should be noted that in January – February, another 20 specialists, who will become instructors for their colleagues in regional centers of emergency medical aid and disaster medicine, received training on the basis of the university’s simulation training center. Almost 25,000 employees of these centers will also undergo online training on a special course, which is being developed within the framework of the joint project of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine “Improving health care at the service of people” with the World Bank.
“Sixty out of one hundred specialists, who are planned to be trained within the framework of this project, have already completed the instructor’s course on providing pre-hospital care in face-to-face format. They receive updated knowledge and skills, which has become especially relevant given the difficult conditions in which doctors work today. A full-scale undeclared war is going on in the country, and doctors often have to save people of all ages in critical conditions, with complex injuries, in particular, mass injuries. A separate aspect of the new challenges of Russian aggression is work in a crisis and stressful situation, when it is necessary to be able to correctly recognize the psychological state of the victims, as well as to prevent the accumulation of one’s own stress and the burnout of colleagues. Therefore, these essential skills of emergency medicine specialists are very useful in the context of a wide range of activities of the All-Ukrainian Mental Health Program,” said Deputy Minister of Health of Ukraine Iryna MYKYCHAK, coordinator of joint projects of the Ministry of Health of Ukraine with the World Bank.
The project also completed the development of the third section of methodological recommendations for instructors – “Management of the injured victim. Disaster Medicine”.
“Management of the critically ill pediatric patient and advanced resuscitation measures in children, infants (including neonates)” and “Management of the critical patient and advanced resuscitation measures in adults” were previously developed. These materials will be needed by instructors who will teach the practical part of the program, and will help to achieve the necessary results as efficiently as possible both in the context of each individual session and in the course of study as a whole.
We will remind that the training of EMD doctors is one of the steps in the implementation of the All-Ukrainian mental health program, which is being developed at the initiative of the first lady of Ukraine, Olena Zelenska. Thus, the Ministry of Health of Ukraine involves emergency medicine specialists in direct participation in the program. Program aims to provide Ukrainians who suffered as a result of the aggressor’s actions, to obtain full and effective access to psychological assistance and to cope with the consequences of the war.
