Disaster and Emergency Preparedness Management

Catalog description

The Disaster Management and Emergency Preparedness (DMEP) course teaches planning and medical management methods applied to preparedness, emergency, and mass casualty disaster situa - tions. Through lecture and interactive scenarios, health care providers learn incident command terminology, principles of disaster triage, inju- ry patterns, and availability of assets for support. Major topics addressed include planning, triage, incident command, injury patterns and patho- physiology, and consideration for special populations. Students in the course will also complete a free 3 hour online training called the Nation- al Incident Management System (NIMS) that is produced by FEMA.