(A300) Psycho-Physiological Training of Disaster Medicine Staff

Psycho-Social Medicine

European survey on training objectives in disaster medicine.

OBJECTIVES As part of the I SEE (Interactive Simulation Exercise for Emergencies) project, financially supported by the Leonardo da Vinci Programme 2000-2006 of the European Commission, a study was planned to assess the type of disaster and to establish the tasks to be included in an emergency exercise to be developed, according to the possible target groups, physicians, nurses, ambulance perso...

Disaster 101: a novel approach to health care students' disaster medicine and emergency preparedness training.

To the Editor: Calls to develop skill-based competencies for emergency preparedness for health professionals—including physician trainees—predate the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. In June 2001, an American College of Emergency Physicians task force recommended that residents and medical students achieve proficiency in bioterrorism and weapons of mass destruction.1 Unfortunately, in t...

Disaster Medicine

Combined with the author's lucid writing style and the intimate portraits ofthose individuals described in the text, the present work presents some fascinating insights into our understanding ofthe stress-disease connection. The book's most debilitating weakness comes from the heavy reliance on one-sided case-report and anecdotal data in many of Mate's inferences and conclusions. Presenting dat...

Disaster 101: a novel approach to disaster medicine training for health professionals.

BACKGROUND Despite efforts to improve preparedness training for health professionals, disaster medicine remains a peripheral component of traditional medical education in the United States (US) and is a rarely studied topic in the medical literature. OBJECTIVES Using a pre-/post-test design, we measured the extent to which 4(th)-year medical students perceive, rapidly learn, and apply basic c...