K Bender

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The Australian Defence Force Medical Specialist Program: Past, Present and Future

The Australian Defence Force (ADF) aspires to provide high-quality medical care to personnel deployed on operations. Medical procedural specialists are key enablers of this capability. In the late 20th Century,…

An Operational Clinical Skill Set for the ADF General Surgeon: a proposal and proof of concept

Hippocrates recognised that civilian practice alone does not prepare military surgeons for the trauma they may treat while deployed. Similarly, many medical professionals acknowledge that the technical and non-technical skills…

Training War-Time General Surgeons in a Peace-Time ADF

K Bender, A Pearson Introduction Until as recently as the second Gulf War, the skill sets of civilian general surgeons were readily transferrable into military surgical practice. The modern Australian…