TY - JOUR
T1 - Core Disaster Medicine Education (CDME) for Emergency Medicine Residents in the United States
AU - Sarin, Ritu R.
AU - Biddinger, Paul
AU - Brown, John
AU - Burstein, Jonathan L.
AU - Burkle, Frederick M.
AU - Char, Douglas
AU - Ciottone, Gregory
AU - Hick, John L.
AU - Koenig, Kristi L.
AU - Little, Charles
AU - Schultz, Carl
AU - Maggin, Jeremy
AU - Goralnick, Eric
N1 - Funding Information:
study was partially funded by the Department of Emergency Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital (Boston, Massachusetts USA). All authors have no conflicts of interest to disclose. Previous presentation at the Society of Academic Emergency Meeting Annual Meeting 2018; Indianapolis, Indiana USA.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine.
PY - 2019/10/1
Y1 - 2019/10/1
N2 - Objectives: Disaster Medicine (DM) education for Emergency Medicine (EM) residents is highly variable due to time constraints, competing priorities, and program expertise. The investigators' aim was to define and prioritize DM core competencies for EM residency programs through consensus opinion of experts and EM professional organization representatives.Methods: Investigators utilized a modified Delphi methodology to generate a recommended, prioritized core curriculum of 40 DM educational topics for EM residencies.Results: The DM topics recommended and outlined for inclusion in EM residency training included: patient triage in disasters, surge capacity, introduction to disaster nomenclature, blast injuries, hospital disaster mitigation, preparedness, planning and response, hospital response to chemical mass-casualty incident (MCI), decontamination indications and issues, trauma MCI, disaster exercises and training, biological agents, personal protective equipment, and hospital response to radiation MCI.Conclusions: This expert-consensus-driven, prioritized ranking of DM topics may serve as the core curriculum for US EM residency programs.
AB - Objectives: Disaster Medicine (DM) education for Emergency Medicine (EM) residents is highly variable due to time constraints, competing priorities, and program expertise. The investigators' aim was to define and prioritize DM core competencies for EM residency programs through consensus opinion of experts and EM professional organization representatives.Methods: Investigators utilized a modified Delphi methodology to generate a recommended, prioritized core curriculum of 40 DM educational topics for EM residencies.Results: The DM topics recommended and outlined for inclusion in EM residency training included: patient triage in disasters, surge capacity, introduction to disaster nomenclature, blast injuries, hospital disaster mitigation, preparedness, planning and response, hospital response to chemical mass-casualty incident (MCI), decontamination indications and issues, trauma MCI, disaster exercises and training, biological agents, personal protective equipment, and hospital response to radiation MCI.Conclusions: This expert-consensus-driven, prioritized ranking of DM topics may serve as the core curriculum for US EM residency programs.
KW - curriculum
KW - disaster education
KW - professionalization
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U2 - 10.1017/S1049023X19004746
DO - 10.1017/S1049023X19004746
M3 - Article
C2 - 31455462
AN - SCOPUS:85071457707
SN - 1049-023X
VL - 34
SP - 473
EP - 480
JO - Prehospital and disaster medicine
JF - Prehospital and disaster medicine
IS - 5
ER -