The Mother of All Excuses to Take Study Leave

by David Rew, MChir FRCS Senior Registrar in General
Surgery, Southampton

This yearbook has previously carried articles on military surgery and the Territorial Army medical services, but most ASIT members will have little contact with military medicine. The Defence Medical Services (DMS) are party to the British post-graduate training system, and the traffic between civilian and military life is two way. Serving military surgeons are trained in NHS accredited posts, and a number of NHS surgeons have pledged their support to the Armed Services as reservists. Surgical trainees who have been active with the TAVR usually have limited time for military training because of their NHS career demands. DMS surgeons are a valuable repository of knowledge in the management of war trauma, and have been active in promoting the Advanced Trauma Life Support concept (ATLS) in the UK in recent years.

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