01 · Course
Operational medical planning
Five days through casualty estimation, capacity laydown, evacuation, sustainment, assumptions, and the final brief.
Length · 5 daysLevel · Advanced
Train staff to plan casualty care, evacuation, and medical supply.
Courses, workshops, and tabletop exercises for teams that need to estimate casualties, place treatment capacity, route evacuation, forecast supply, assess readiness, and brief risk.
- Formats
- Courses · workshops · tabletop exercises
- Delivery
- On-site, embedded, or in-house
- Audiences
- Defence medical · Health authorities · Critical care
- Scheduling
- Dates set by arrangement
What we teach
Courses that end with an estimate, route, model, or brief.
Each programme ends with an output the cohort can explain: an estimate, model, laydown, route, readiness picture, or brief.
02 · Workshop
Casualty estimation & modelling
Two days on rates, assumptions, low / expected / high projections, and how to challenge a model.
Length · 2 daysLevel · Applied
03 · Staff course
Medical command & control
Three days on decision rights, information flow, casualty movement, escalation, and staff rhythm across roles and echelons.
Length · 3 daysLevel · Advanced
04 · Exercise
Tabletop & wargaming
One to two days testing a plan under injects, degraded conditions, time pressure, and enemy action.
Length · 1–2 daysLevel · All
05 · Masterclass
Readiness & assurance
One day for leaders on measuring readiness, explaining gaps, and briefing residual risk.
Length · 1 dayLevel · Leadership
06 · In-house
In-house programmes
A syllabus built from your doctrine, scenario, staff roles, and starting level.
Scope · TailoredDelivery · On-site
How each course runs.
We teach the doctrine and planning steps, have the cohort apply them to a scenario, test the work with injects, and hand over templates they can use again.
01
Scope
Define the cohort, role, scenario, and required output.
02
Teach
Cover the doctrine, assumptions, and planning steps.
03
Build
Build the model, plan, or readiness picture.
04
Exercise
Test it under injects, missing information, and time pressure.
05
Hand over
Provide templates, examples, and reference packs.
The course, mapped out
Five days from casualty modelling to command brief.
The flagship course takes a cohort through casualty modelling, treatment capacity, evacuation, sustainment, assumptions, and the final brief.
IllustrativeExample syllabus. A delivered course is adjusted to the cohort, doctrine, and scenario.
Course Syllabus · Operational Medical Planning6 modules · contact hours
- Contact hours
- 38total
- Modules
- 6across 5 days
- Assessed
- 5of 6
- Next cohort
- Q32026
ModuleContact hoursHours
Medical planning processDay 1 · Foundation6taught
Casualty estimationDay 2 · Modelling7assessed
Treatment capacityDay 3 · Design7assessed
Evacuation & sustainmentDay 4 · Movement8assessed
The plan, exercisedDay 5 · Exercise6assessed
Briefing the planDay 5 · Assessment4assessed
Contact hoursAssessed module38 contact hours · 5 days
When & where
Scheduled around your team.
We usually deliver training in-house. Dates, scenario, doctrine references, and course level are set with the requesting organisation.
In-house Every programme can be delivered at your site, scoped to your doctrine and cohort. Ask about a course →
Who we teach
For the people who own the plan.
These courses are for staff who must turn demand, risk, and limited resources into a plan someone can approve.
Defence medical staff & planners
For staff responsible for casualty estimates, evacuation, treatment capacity, sustainment, and command briefs.
Health authority & ministry teams
For teams planning capacity, readiness, reform, and emergency health services across a jurisdiction.
Hospital & clinical leadership
For leaders responsible for surge, critical services, staffing, escalation, and assurance.
Why the training changes the work.
Taught by practitioners
Instructors are planners and analysts who do the work, not presentation-only trainers.
Practitioner-ledDoctrine and standards
Teaching uses the doctrine, standards, and briefing formats your organisation recognises.
AJP-4.10 · APP-23Practised with injects
Cohorts work under scenario changes, missing information, and time limits.
Scenario · exerciseMaterials handed over
Your team receives templates, examples, and reference packs.
Materials handed overCourse enquiries
Ask about a courseTell us who needs training and what they must be able to do.
Send the cohort, starting level, doctrine environment, and required output. We will recommend a course outline or tell you if the request is outside what we teach.