Objectives of ICMM
The main objective of the ICMM is to ensure that our medical services personnel have the means to work together, using similar practices, in operations involving international cooperation. This is a long-term goal, and the ICMM can work towards achieving this in a number of ways: by encouraging activities at which scientific and technical experience is shared, by developing contacts with the scientific community, by promoting regional events. This will enable us to pool our resources and work experience of military medicine, both in the theatre of operations and in a support role in the case of crisis situations.
Other ICMM objectives include: – to maintain and strengthen relations between Medical Services of Member States – to promote scientific military medical activities – to provide where necessary best practices and standards which Member States can aim for – to help to develop medical and military medical recommendations for humanitarian operations – these could range from Armed Forces humanitarian interventions to peacekeeping operations – to facilitate relations between Armed Forces Medical Services of ICMM Member States and international organizations such as World Health Organization (WHO), World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE), Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), or International Military Sports Council (IMSC),…
The above objectives are of interest to all sectors of military medicine in the wider sense, i.e. :
- Screening personnel,
- Medicine within military units,
- Surgery in the theatre of operations,
- Emergency medicine,
- Disaster response,
- Public health,
- Dentistry,
- Pharmacy,
- Veterinary sciences,
- Administration and medical logistics training.
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