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International Emergency Medical Teams Training Workshop Special Report

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 April 2018

Anthony Albina ,
Laura Archer ,
Marlène Boivin ,
Hilarie Cranmer ,
Kirsten Johnson ,
Gautham Krishnaraj ,
Anali Maneshi ,
Lisa Oddy ,
Lynda Redwood-Campbell  and
Rebecca Russell
Anthony Albina
Affiliation:
McGill University Health Centres, Department of Emergency Medicine, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Laura Archer
Affiliation:
Canadian Red Cross, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Marlène Boivin
Affiliation:
Humanitarian U, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Hilarie Cranmer
Affiliation:
Massachusetts General Hospital, Center for Global Health, Boston, Massachusetts USA
Kirsten Johnson*
Affiliation:
McGill University Health Centres, Department of Emergency Medicine, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Humanitarian U, Montreal, Quebec, Canada McGill University, Department of Family Medicine, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Gautham Krishnaraj
Affiliation:
McMaster University, Humanitarian Health Ethics Research Group, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Anali Maneshi
Affiliation:
McGill University Health Centres, Department of Emergency Medicine, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Lisa Oddy
Affiliation:
Humanitarian U, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Lynda Redwood-Campbell
Affiliation:
McMaster University, Department of Family Medicine, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Rebecca Russell
Affiliation:
McGill University Health Centres, Department of Emergency Medicine, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
*
Correspondence: Kirsten Johnson, MD, MPH McGill University Department of Family Medicine 5858 Côte-des-Neiges, Suite 300 Montreal, Quebec H3S 1Z2 Canada E-mail: Kirsten.johnson@mcgill.ca
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Abstract

The World Health Organization’s (WHO; Geneva, Switzerland) Emergency Medical Team (EMT) Initiative created guidelines which define the basic procedures to be followed by personnel and teams, as well as the critical points to discuss before deploying a field hospital. However, to date, there is no formal standardized training program established for EMTs before deployment. Recognizing that the World Association of Disaster and Emergency Medicine (WADEM; Madison, Wisconsin USA) Congress brings together a diverse group of key stakeholders, a pre-Congress workshop was organized to seek out collective expertise and to identify key EMT training competencies for the future development of training programs and protocols. The future of EMT training should include standardization of curriculum and the recognition or accreditation of selected training programs. The outputs of this pre-WADEM Congress workshop provide an initial contribution to the EMT Training Working Group, as this group works on mapping training, competencies, and curriculum. Common EMT training themes that were identified as fundamental during the pre-Congress workshop include: the ability to adapt one’s professional skills to low-resource settings; context-specific training, including the ability to serve the needs of the affected population in natural disasters; training together as a multi-disciplinary EMT prior to deployment; and the value of simulation in training.

AlbinaA, ArcherL, BoivinM, CranmerH, JohnsonK, KrishnarajG, ManeshiA, OddyL, Redwood-CampbellL, RussellR. International Emergency Medical Teams Training Workshop Special Report. Prehosp Disaster Med. 2018;33(3):335–338.

Keywords

activities, trainingdisaster relief planningexperiential learningnatural disasters
Type
Special Reports
Information
Prehospital and Disaster Medicine , Volume 33 , Issue 3 , June 2018 , pp. 335 - 338
Copyright
© World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine 2018 

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Footnotes

Conflicts of interest: Kirsten Johnson is the CEO of Humanitarian U (Montreal, Quebec, Canada), a social enterprise that aims to train professionals and build capacity in the humanitarian sector. The other authors have no conflicts of interest to declare.

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