Report of the 2nd ICMM Course
for health support in saharan environment
in South of Tunisia
This course was supported by the Minister of Tunisian Defense and was organized by the General Directorate of Tunisian Military Health.
The Director of the course was Gen CHEBBI, M.D., Deputy Chairman of ICMM and ICMM Delegate for Tunisia. The Course Coordinator was Col FERJANI, M.D. for scientific aspects and Col CHIBBANI, M.D. for logistic aspects.
The program is now very good established and was articulated around 5 modules:
1. Diseases related to heat: theoretical and clinical cases
2. Diseases related to the environment: theoretical
3. Scorpion poisoning and snakebites: theoretical and practical stations
4. Certificate of training and initiation in skin leishmaniasis: theoretical and practical stations
5. Role of the military health services in Saharan environment; theoretical, practical exercise and survival on the field.
The conferences were given in French or English, with direct good translation in both languages.
The participants came from Algeria, Belgium, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Cameroun, China, France, Germany, Iraq, Libyan Arab Jamahiriah, Sweden, and Switzerland.
The teachers came from Algeria, France, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia and USA.
The organization was very good, and the efforts of the organizers very intensive to facilitate the arrival in this distant region of Tunisia.
The quality of the program was very high, and the attendance very active, due to the pedagogical quality of the teachers and the practical exercises.
Evaluation papers about all conferences and aspects of the course were given to the participants, and exploited by a commission to improve the quality of the next sessions of the course.
We hope that the participants will transmit the most important lessons learned to their hierarchy and we proposed the teachers to publish some articles in the review of ICMM, the International Review of the Armed Forces Medical Services.
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