Peculiar features of planning and medical support for major sporting events

Abstract

Introduction. To provide medical support for the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Samara (2018 World Cup), the project management team, and a special working group of the Ministry of Health of the Samara Region, dealt with the problems of creating medical infrastructure at sports facilities, preparing authorized hospitals and forming a team of specialists answering the highest standards of international health care. The purpose of the work is to evaluate the effectiveness of the developed program for training medical personnel to work at major international sports events. Materials and methods. The entire period of training of the medical team took 2 years 9 months, when the following events were carried out: counting of numbers, facilities and means; recruitment and subsequent selection of specialists; creating a schedule for their preparation; creating a concept and efficient plan; formation of groups with the appointed leaders and managing stuff; professional retraining of key participants; cycles of improvement and advanced training; training to provide medical care actual for existing sports facilities. The following preparatory actions were organized: psychological trainings, teaching information security rules, intellectual games, photo documentation, regular media coverage, joint attendance of the Confederations Cup football match in 2017, sports training, practicing interdepartmental interaction. Uniform design was developed. Results. The total staffing level of the team is 249 specialists. At the same time, 133 specialists were part of more than one team of different formats. During the entire period of work, 2685 requests were registered. Conclusion. The experience of creating and training a medical team to work at the 2018 World Cup venues subsequently formed the basis for medical support for all major public and sporting events in the Samara region.