The fellows have a variety of ways to learn disaster medicine and emergency management. The central piece of our educational program is our weekly didatic lecture series. The lecture series encompasses all facets of disaster medicine and emergency management and follows along with our curriculum. Please see below for a link to our curriculum. The fellows also get practical experience while working on several hospital and regional EM committees, participating and running drills, teaching courses for CEEPET as well as other DM faculty and the EM residency. The fellows also receive education through their Masters degree course work and during disaster responses and field work.
Curriculum topics include:
1. Nomenclature & basic disaster principles
2. IMS (NRF, NIMS, HICS, ICS)
3. All-Hazard Medical Management of Incidents and MCIs
4. Hospital Emergency Management Planning
5. Hospital Joint Commission Preparedness
6. Hospital planning: Interface with the Community and Government
7. Hospital Exercise Design and Participation
8. Alternate Sites of Care
9. Recognition, notification, initiation, and data collection
10. Resource management & altered standards of care
11. Volunteer & Donation management
12. Surge capacity & capability
13. Specific DM Incidents & Scenarios
14. Decon; PPE; Personal Protective Actions
15. Mass immunization and Infectious Disease & Control issues
16. Hospital Evacuations
17. GO- and NGO- sponsored response teams and USR teams
18. Recovery from major incidents & Post-traumatic growth
19. Mental Health & Stress issues
20. Syndromic surveillance & Public Health issues
21. Care of Special Needs Populations (IRAA populations)
22. Use of Ultrasound
23. Role of EMS in Emergency Management
24. Role of Guidelines, Laws, Regulations and Public Policy in DM & EM
25. Communication skills
26. Case studies, Including ethical issues and cases
27. Education & training
28. Development of Effective Leadership Skills
29. Critical thinking/ situational awareness
30. Disaster Research and Epidemiology