title: Maintaining surgical skills for military general surgery: the potential role for multivisceral organ retrieval in military general surgery training and practice.
abstract: The closure of the Medical Treatment facility in Camp BASTION and the return to contingency operations presents a new challenge in training and maintaining the skills of military surgeons. Multivisceral organ retrieval presents a unique opportunity to practice some of the more unusual techniques required in military surgery in the National Health Service. This article details the experience that organ retrieval offers and matches this to the needs of military surgeons. National Organ Retrieval Service teams need skilled surgeons, and a mutually beneficial partnership is in prospect.
authors.affiliation: Academic Department of Military Surgery and Trauma, Royal Centre for Defence Medicine, Birmingham, UK Department of Hepatobiliary and Transplant Surgery, University Hospitals Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: O'Reilly
authors.affiliation: Department of Hepatobiliary and Transplant Surgery, University Hospitals Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Lordan
authors.affiliation: Oesophagogastric Surgery Unit, University Hospitals Bristol, Bristol, UK DCA General Surgery, Joint Medical Command, DMS Whittington, Lichfield, UK.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Streets
authors.affiliation: NIHR Surgical Reconstruction & Microbiology Research Centre, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK Clinical Unit, Royal Centre for Defence Medicine, Birmingham, UK.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Midwinter
authors.affiliation: Department of Hepatobiliary and Transplant Surgery, University Hospitals Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Mirza
mesh_terms: D002983:Clinical Competence; D013502:General Surgery / Q000193:education*; D006801:Humans; D008887:Military Medicine / Q000193:education*; D013222:State Medicine; D020858:Tissue and Organ Harvesting; D014193:Trauma Centers; D014194:Traumatology / Q000193:education; D006113:United Kingdom
keywords: MEDICAL EDUCATION & TRAINING