The department is divided into group of Military Internal Medicine and group of Military Hygiene.

Military Internal Medicine

The group of Military Internal Medicine is the clinical part of the department, systematically focused on specialized part of Internal Medicine – Military Internal Medicine. The Military Internal Medicine as a subspeciality of Internal Medicine has been progressively developed into recent shape and purpose. In accordance with latest trends of military health supply and modern therapeutic approaches, the Military Internal Medicine provides knowledge and practical experience with treatment of life-threatening non-surgical impairment in specific conditions of the military, especially during the armed conflicts. Nowadays Internal Medicine is also of increasing importance in postoperative care, where multidisciplinary approach leads to improved prognosis of the most severe surgical affections.  Furthermore, the knowledge and practical experience of Military Internal Medicine are useful also during peace, especially in large-scale disasters – catastrophes. In fact, most of the skills obtained by Military Internal Medicine training are useful in a novel and progressive branch of medical specialization – Medicine of Catastrophes. 

The Military Internal Medicine has been further developed in 3 basic branches: therapeutic-preventive, pedagogical-educational and research-scientific.

The therapeutic-preventive activity is the essential branch of Military Internal Medicine. It provides specialized knowledge and experience with treatment of the most severe medical affections. The group of Military Internal Medicine cooperates with Internal Departments of University Hospital Hradec Kralove, which provides therapeutic and educational background.

Military Hygiene

The branch of Military Hygiene follows the living and working conditions of troops with the aim to develop, propose and assert measures for health protection and promotion of military professionals in order to maintain a good health state of troops and combat capability of the Army of the Czech Republic personnel in difficult conditions of military environment. In accordance with this function the activity of the group of Military Hygiene is aimed at monitoring the impact of environmental factors on the organism, at evaluating their risk in working and living environment and at setting effective preventive measures to protect and promote health of the soldiers.

Currently, the group of Military Hygiene complexly covers the basic issues of the relation of life and job environment to the health of the individual.

The group can provides the analysis of selected physical and chemical factors of external environment in the conditions of the Army of the Czech Republic. It studies the possibilities of use of chemical substances for disinfection effects. The group is focused above all on response of the organism to work in protective clothing and severe climatic conditions and on evaluation of the degree of risk connected with environment contamination.

In the area of group of Military Hygiene, attention is paid namely to the incidence and prevalence of risk factors of non-infectious diseases of mass incidence, rational food, catering of troops in peacetime and wartime conditions – emergency food rations, assessment of the proper received and consumed energy.

Cooperation:

• Charles University, Faculty of Medicine in Hradec Kralove
• University Hospital Hradec Kralove
• Institute for Postgraduate Medical Education in Prague
• Health Institute in Hradec Kralove
• Hygienic Station in Liberec
• Military Health Institute in Prague
• Main hygienist of the Ministry of Defence
• Silesian University in Opava
• Agricultural University in Nitra, Slovakia