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Disaster Medicine: A Multi-Modality Curriculum Designed and Implemented for Emergency Medicine Residents

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 April 2016

Jessica Ngo ,
Kimberly Schertzer ,
Phillip Harter  and
Rebecca Smith-Coggins
Jessica Ngo*
Affiliation:
Department of Emergency Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA.
Kimberly Schertzer
Affiliation:
Department of Emergency Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA.
Phillip Harter
Affiliation:
Department of Emergency Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA.
Rebecca Smith-Coggins
Affiliation:
Department of Emergency Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA.
*
Correspondence and reprint requests to Jessica Ngo, Department of Emergency Medicine, 300 Pasteur Drive, Alway Building M121, Stanford, CA 94305 (e-mail: jngo@stanford.edu).
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Abstract

Objective

Few established curricula are available for teaching disaster medicine. We describe a comprehensive, multi-modality approach focused on simulation to teach disaster medicine to emergency medicine residents in a 3-year curriculum.

Methods

Residents underwent a 3-year disaster medicine curriculum incorporating a variety of venues, personnel, and roles. The curriculum included classroom lectures, tabletop exercises, virtual reality simulation, high-fidelity simulation, hospital disaster drills, and journal club discussion. All aspects were supervised by specialty emergency medicine faculty and followed a structured debriefing. Residents rated the high-fidelity simulations by using a 10-point Likert scale.

Results

Three classes of emergency medicine residents participated in the 3-year training program. Residents found the exercise to be realistic, educational, and relevant to their practice. After participating in the program, residents felt better prepared for future disasters.

Conclusions

Given the large scope of impact that disasters potentiate, it is understandably difficult to teach these skills effectively. Training programs can utilize this simulation-based curriculum to better prepare the nation’s emergency medicine physicians for future disasters. (Disaster Med Public Health Preparedness. 2016;10:611–614)

Keywords

disaster medicineemergency medicineresidency trainingsimulationvirtual realitycurriculum
Type
Original Research
Information
Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness , Volume 10 , Issue 4 , August 2016 , pp. 611 - 614
Copyright
Copyright © Society for Disaster Medicine and Public Health, Inc. 2016 

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