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Theme 8. Education Issues in Disaster Medicine: Summary and Action Plan

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 June 2012

Laurie Pearce ,
Linda B. Bourque ,
S.J. Armour ,
Peter Bastone ,
Marvin Birnbaum ,
Christopher Garrett ,
P.G. Greenough ,
Corrado Manni ,
Norifumi Ninomiya  and
Jaime Renderos
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Laurie Pearce
Affiliation:
Disaster Preparedness Resources Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, CANADA
Linda B. Bourque
Affiliation:
Community Health Sciences and the Center for Public Health and Disaster Relief, School of Public Health, UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA
S.J. Armour
Affiliation:
Hazard Assessment Group, Defence Research Establishment Suffield, Medicine Hat, Alberta, CANADA
Peter Bastone
Affiliation:
President/CEO, Mission Hospital Regional Medical Center, Mission Viego, California, USA
Marvin Birnbaum
Affiliation:
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Christopher Garrett
Affiliation:
Department of Emergency Medicine, New York Methodist Hospital, Brooklyn, New York, USA
P.G. Greenough
Affiliation:
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Massachusetts, Worchester, Massachusetts, USA
Corrado Manni
Affiliation:
President, European Centre for Disaster Medicine and President of the Italian Institute for Social Medicine, Rome, ITALY
Norifumi Ninomiya
Affiliation:
Department of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, Nippon Medical School, Tokyo, JAPAN
Jaime Renderos
Affiliation:
Chief Occupational Health Program, El Salvadoran Institute of Social Security, San Salvador, EL SALVADOR
Steven Rottman
Affiliation:
President, World Association for Disaster Medicine, UCLA School of Medicine and Public Health, Los Angeles, California, USA
Pardeep Sahni
Affiliation:
Professor of Public Administration, Indira Ghandi National Open University, New Delhi, INDIA
Chung-Liang Shih
Affiliation:
Department of Emergency Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC
David Siegel
Affiliation:
Department of Emergency Medicine, Madigan Army Medical Center, Tacoma, Washington, USA
Bradley Younggren
Affiliation:
Department of Emergency Medicine, Madigan Army Medical Center, Tacoma, Washington, USA
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Abstract

Introduction:

Change must begin with education. Theme 8 explored issues that need attention in Disaster Medicine education.

Methods:

Details of the methods used are provided in the introductory paper. The chairs moderated all presentations and produced a summary that was presented to an assembly of all of the delegates. The chairs then presided over a workshop that resulted in the generation of a set of action plans that then were reported to the collective group of all delegates.

Results:

Main points developed during the presentations and discussion included: (1) formal education, (2) standardized definitions, (3) integration (4) evaluation of programs and interventions, (5) international cooperation, (6) identifying the psychosocial consequences of disaster, (7) meaningful research, and (8) hazard, impact, risk and vulnerability analysis.

Discussion:

Three main components of the action plans were identified as evaluation, research, and education. The action plans recommended that: (1) education on disasters should be formalized, (2) evaluation of education and interventions must be improved, and (3) meaningful research should be promulgated and published for use at multiple levels and that applied research techniques be the subject of future conferences.

Conclusions:

The one unanimous conclusion was that we need more and better education on the disaster phenomenon, both in its impacts and in our response to them. Such education must be increasingly evidence-based.

Keywords

analysiscooperationdefinitionsdisaster medicineeducationevaluationhazardsintegrationmitigationpreventionpsychosocialpublic healthrecoveryresearchresponseriskvulnerability
Type
5th Asia-Pacific Conference on Disaster Medicine
Information
Prehospital and Disaster Medicine , Volume 16 , Issue 1 , March 2001 , pp. 46 - 49
Copyright
Copyright © World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine 2001

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References

5th Asia-Pacific Conference on Disaster Medicine (5APCDM): Theme 8: Education issues in disaster medicine. Prehosp Disast Med 2000; 15(3):s81–s89 (http://pdm.medicine.wisc.edu).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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