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NATO Centre of Excellence for Military Medicine
About NATO Centres of Excellence (COEs): NATO Centres of Excellence are organizations that operate in specific professional military spectrum in order to support NATO’s transformational process initiated by the Prague Summit of 2002. They are coordinated by the Allied Command Transformation (ACT).
NATO accreditation: As a result of a thorough preparation, with the official endorsement of the highest level medical organization of NATO, the Committee of the Chiefs of Military Medical Services (COMEDS), the Minister of Defence established the Centre of Excellence for Military Medicine within the structure of the Hungarian Ministry of Defence 1. November, 2008. ACT has concluded its accreditation-assessment in June, 2009 and in August, the NATO Military Committee (MC) has endorsed the NATO accreditation of the MILMED COE. As a result, the Northern Atlantic Council (NAC) has accredited and activated the Centre of Excellence for Military Medicine as an International Military Organisation (IMO). During the inauguration ceremony the authority for the COE will be transferred from the HUN MoD to the ACT.
The NATO Centre of Excellence for Military Medicine – general information: The NATO MILMED COE is a state-of-the-art knowledge centre and serve as a generator for and a primary source of expertise of NATO’s military medical community in relevant aspects of medical support to operations. The NATO MILMED COE is support and assist the Strategic Commands, other NATO bodies, nations, other civil and military bodies by supporting the transformation of the Alliance and hereby improving medical support to operations and to provide subject matter expertise in the following areas:
- Medical training and evaluation leading to certification
- Medical LL focusing on tactical aspects
- Standards development and custodianship
To achieve this goals besides Hungary as the framework nation 5 countries have joined the centre as sponsoring nations, namely: the Czech Republic, the Kingdom of the Netherlands, the Federal Republic of Germany, the Italian Republic and Romania. The NATO MILMED COE has 31 Hungarian and 10 NATO positions, the NATO posts are being lled continuously. The annual budget of NATO MILMED COE is provided by all sponsoring nations and based on the Steering Committee approved Programme of Work. In addition of the professional work the NATO MILMED COE is endeavour to participate the civilian medical communities events like the 3rd Conference of Migrant and Ethnic Minority Health in Europe (www. mighealth2010.net), in Pécs, Hungary on 27- 29 May 2010.
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