For six years, in Toulouse, a military medicine module has been offered to medical students and civilian caregivers.
While the war is at the gates of Europe, this training teaches doctors and nurses the basic gestures and the injuries they could one day face, especially during an attack.
This training, which took place over two days, is also a way of convincing civilian caregivers to become reservists, and even to encourage vocations.
A man has just blown up a mine in Afghanistan.
On screen, US Army medics provide first aid to the injured man who has just lost his foot and is suffering from multiple bruises.
These trashy images are not from a blockbuster but the cold reality of what is happening in wartime, today in Ukraine, at the gates of Europe.
Sitting in their armchairs, students, firefighters or even doctors seasoned in emergency situations watch how their counterparts in fatigues act, what first aid they provide to these war wounded.
A way for the Toulouse Armed Forces Medical Center to immerse the trainees of the "military medicine module" in the heart of the matter, revealing to them what they could be confronted with if they had to intervene in a theater of war or attacks .
For two days, Wednesday and Thursday, 300 nurses, interns or even emergency physicians received both theoretical and practical training on the right actions to adopt in an emergency, without a lot of equipment and in extreme conditions.
The first being to protect themselves, remind the instructors, "because an injured or dead caregiver is an additional victim".
Encourage vocations
“Now that war has been coming to homes since the attacks, nurses and doctors had to be trained in this war medicine.
The members of the Armed Forces Health Service have this experience acquired in external operations and can transfer their expertise to civilians, particularly within the framework of university training, so that they prepare for the reality of a theater of war on our territory. , explains Jean-Philippe Durrieu from Fuza.
In civilian life, this doctor is an ENT surgeon in a private clinic.
But he also has the cap of reserve chief doctor of the 11th Army Medical Center.
Because if the army has its own health service, with doctors and nurses "in the active", it can also count on many reservists.
After the period of health crisis and the decade of attacks, their number has increased by 30% over the past three years.
During their missions, they supplement or replace the professional military doctors, are present during training, for example.
More rarely, they can go overseas, to Lebanon or Mali.
"Doctors are a rare resource, long to train"
On the occasion of this module of military medicine, integrated into the capacity or the university option of disaster medicine, the health service of the Armed Forces does not hide its desire to convince future caregivers to become reservists, or even to encourage vocations military.
“Like all health professions, doctors are a rare resource that takes a long time to train.
This is why we need the reserve to be able to accomplish all of our missions.
For them, it is also a way to see something else, to get out of their daily lives, from the usual techniques, ”argues Christophe Albert, national manager of the radiation and training section for military medical reservists.
To put them in condition, members of the 1st regiment of the Cugnaux parachute train replay an attack scene, simulate injuries and care.
We are far from the road accidents that Clément, a young emergency doctor in the Castres Samu is usually confronted with.
But for him, it is important to "prepare for a crisis situation, whatever it is, as there have been more and more in recent years".
Beyond the attacks, he knows that he could be confronted in his daily life with a bus accident and multiple victims.
“Whether there are 10, 20 or 100, we have to manage the inadequacy of the means available and the exceptional demand.
This is what this module reminds us of, ”continues the emergency doctor.
A dimension that the members of SAMU 31, who participate in this training, must have already experienced during the AZF disaster or the 2012 attacks in Ozar Hatorah.
“This culture of disaster medicine has existed since the 1980s but among emergency physicians, but, with the climate of recent years, students are also increasingly aware of the need to have the right gestures.
And for that the soldiers have experiences that we have little.
They manage firearm injuries, we are very rare, ”recalls Anna Ribera-Lano, head of the SAMU 31 disaster medicine unit.
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