Background of the establishment of the Department of military and military-sanitary disciplines at the Military medical academy

The article discusses the historical background of the organization of the first department of military and military sanitary disciplines at the Military Medical Academy of the Red Army. It is noted that the establishment of this department within the walls of the country’s oldest medical school, which trained military doctors, was completely natural. The first decade of the 20th century was marked by a significant complication of the tasks of medical support of the army. New historical conditions were due to the use of new weapons and the mechanization of the army. All this led to the awareness of the need to create a scientific and methodological center for studying the problems of medical support for the army during military operations and the training of military medical personnel. The answer to this historical inquiry was the establishment in 1929 of the first in the USSR department of military and military sanitary disciplines at the Military Medical Academy of the Red Army.

military medical education in the USSR, history of military medicine, department of military and military sanitary disciplines