The New Zealand Medical Service in the Great War 1914-1918
I. Medical Schools of Instruction. New Zealand Division January, 1917
I. Medical Schools of Instruction. New Zealand Division January, 1917.
Corps Medical Officers' Training School, Estaires.
The following is a list of lectures and demonstrations included in the curriculum—
Organisation and Administration.
1. | Rank in the Army distinguishing Badges. Customs of the Service. |
2 | Routine Correspondence. Returns and Reports. |
3 | Military Books and Manuals and their uses. |
4 | The Composition of a Division. |
5 | Duties of the General Staff branch of a Division. |
6 | Duties of "A" and "Q" Branch. |
7 | Medical Arrangements of a Division. |
8 | Supplies. |
9 | Transport. |
10 | Discipline, Military Law. |
11 | The Ordnance Department. |
12 | Administration of a Section of Field Ambulance. |
Field Work.
1 | Military Map Reading and use of the Compass. |
2 | Construction of Dug-outs and splinter proofs. |
3 | Gas Defence and Box Respirator Drill. |
4 | Inter-communication, the Signal Service. |
5 | Duties of an R.M.O. during active operations. |
6 | Evacuation of wounded by Field Ambulances. |
7 | Horse management and common ailments of the horse. |
8 | Riding lessons. |
9 | Care of Motors and Motor Transport. |
Military Hygiene.
1 | Duties of an R.M.O. i/c. of a Unit. |
2 | Hygiene of the March. |
3 | Sources of Water Supply, the use of the Water Cart. Water Testing. |
4 | Sanitation of Billets. Rations and cooking. Rest. |
5 | Lecture and Demonstration. Field Sanitation. |
6 | Demonstration of Sanitary appliances and water purification on large scale by Water Filtration Barges. |
7 | Biology of the Louse. Louse infestation. |
8 | Organisation of Divisional Baths and Laundries. |
9 | Anti-typhoid Inoculations. |
Medical and Surgical Subjects.
1 | Treatment of Wounded in Field Ambulances. |
2 | Treatment of Wounded in C.C.S. |
3 | After Treatment of wounded in Stationary and Base Hospitals. |
4 | Treatment of gassed cases at C C S. |
5 | Trench Foot etiology and treatment. |
6 | P.U.O. and Trench Fever. |
7 | War Nephritis. |
8 | Shell Shock Neurasthenia and Malingering. |