Subsistema de medicina operativa - perspectivas diante de novos desafios da Marinha do Brasil: Gestão de Recursos Humanos de Saúde - Oficiais Médicos - para atuação em Unidades Médicas Operativas

Abstract

Is an international consensus that Health logistic function should be present at all steps of any military mission in form of a quality medical assistance. The progress of the military power of nations, coupled with the new characteristics of the combat, has determined that the military develop programs for training of health personnel should adequate to this new reality in order to maintain the potentiality of the troops. Responsible for the provision of the health assistance in armed conflicts and disasters, the Subsystem of the Operative Medicine has contributed significantly for the physician readiness, however it is necessary to develop an effective program of professional training in order to maintain, in the Brazilian Navy, a Health Corp qualified to tend to the demands of the troops in adverse situations that will present. The following study has utilized as its methodology the bibliographic and analytical reading and has analyzed how the training of physicians in Brazil and the skills it is required, nowadays. Through the description of the organizational structure of the Health System of the Navy, it was possible to evaluate the status of the Operative Medicine in Brazil’s Navy. From this analysis, proposals were presented for changes in the training of navy’s physician, enabling him to act effectively in the maintenance and readiness of Naval Power.