At present the Department of Field Surgery consists of two groups – the Group of General Surgery and the Group of Traumatology and Burns Treatment. Besides working at each Division of the Department of Surgery of the Teaching Hospital in Hradec Králové, the members of the Department perform both, undergraduate courses in field surgery for students of the Faculty of Military Health Science, and postgraduate training of military physicians for their specialization exams in surgery and general medicine. The Department also participates in teaching of the Battlefield Advanced Trauma Life Support (BATLS) courses, disaster medicine and the first aid courses, organized by the Faculty of Military Health Sciences for the Czech Army members. In the last several years, the Department has played important role in education and training of the personnel of field hospitals operating in foreign missions (Yugoslavia, Bosna-Herzegovina, Albania, Iraq, Afghanistan). Members of the Department also took part in that missions.