Disaster medicine and pandemic response: A novel curriculum to improve understanding of complex care delivery during the COVID-19 pandemic.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Despite a 2009 recommendation from the AMA that disaster medicine and public health response training should be implemented in medical schools, anywhere from 31% to 47% of medical education programs lack a formalized disaster medicine curriculum. A need for disaster medicine response training for University of Alabama medical students in an appropriately socially distanced format was identified during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Methods

Our emergency medicine faculty in collaboration with the Federal Emergency Management Agency Center for Disaster Preparedness (FEMA CDP) created and implemented a novel virtual disaster medicine and pandemic response course for third-year medical students at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). The course was administered via

SUBMITTER: Peterson T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8420303 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature