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ForwardeDMEP (Disaster Management and Emergency Preparedness)
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Program Description
eDMEP is a fully online version of the Disaster Management Emergency Preparedness (DMEP) course. This course focuses on the hospital response to disaster. The overall goal is to motivate action and stimulate critical thinking related to getting Ready for disasters, Responding to them, and Recovering from them.
Includes Earthquake and Tornado triage scenarios. Additional scenarios to come in 2024.
Target Audience
The target audience for this course includes the members of the Disaster Committee at a hospital, which may include: Trauma surgeons, Advanced Practice Providers, Nursing, Trauma Program Managers, Administrators, Support Staff, etc.
The Core Competencies addressed in eDMEP include:
- Create a disaster plan for your hospital, based on a hazard vulnerability analysis and inclusive of other departments.
- Test your disaster plan.
- Recognize an emerging disaster and respond by implementing your hospital disaster plan.
- Conduct reviews of your hospital’s performance after a disaster or drill and implement improvements to the disaster plan.
- Facilitate hospital and community recovery from a disaster.
Learning Objectives
After successfully completing this course, participants will be able to:
- Prepare learners to become ready for, respond to, and recover from disasters, focused on mass casualty incidents.
- Prepare learners to contribute effectively to hospital disaster readiness.
- Prepare learners to participate in response, to include mass casualty triage.
Contact
For questions about course content or help with navigation, please contact us at traumaeducation@facs.org
DISCLOSURE POLICY
In accordance with the ACCME Accreditation Criteria, the American College of Surgeons must ensure that anyone in a position to control the content of the educational activity (planners and speakers/authors/discussants/moderators) has disclosed all financial relationships with any commercial interest (termed by the ACCME as an “ineligible company”, defined below) held in the last 24 months (see below for definitions). Please note that first authors were required to collect and submit disclosure information on behalf of all other authors/contributors, if applicable.
Ineligible company: Any entity producing, marketing, re-selling, or distributing health care goods or services used on or consumed by patients. Providers of clinical services directly to patients are NOT included in this definition. |
Financial Relationships: Relationships in which the individual benefits by receiving a salary, royalty, intellectual property rights, consulting fee, honoraria, ownership interest (e.g., stocks, stock options or other ownership interest, excluding diversified mutual funds), or other financial benefit. Financial benefits are usually associated with roles such as employment, management position, independent contractor (including contracted research), consulting, speaking and teaching, membership on advisory committees or review panels, board membership, and other activities from which remuneration is received, or expected. |
Conflict of Interest: Circumstances create a conflict of interest when an individual has an opportunity to affect CME content about products or services of an ineligible company with which he/she has a financial relationship. |
The ACCME also requires that ACS manage any reported conflict and eliminate the potential for bias during the educational activity. Any conflicts noted below have been managed to our satisfaction. The disclosure information is intended to identify any commercial relationships and allow learners to form their own judgments. However, if you perceive a bias during the educational activity, please report it on the evaluation.
For course-specific disclosure listings, please refer to the disclosure insert provided at your course site.
eDMEP Planning/Development Committee Disclosures:
Jeannette M. Capella, MD, MEd, FACS
No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose
John H. Armstrong, MD, FACS
No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose
David Zonies, MD, MPH, MBA, FCCM, FACS
No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose
eDMEP Author Disclosures:
John H. Armstrong, MD, FACS
No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose
David P. Blake, MD, FACS
No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose
Kenneth D. Boffard, MBBCh, FRCS, FACS(Hon)
No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose
Eileen M. Bulger, MD, FACS
No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose
Jeannette M. Capella, MD, MEd, FACS
No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose
Jay J. Doucet, MD, FRCSC, FACS
No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose
James R. Ficke, MD, FAAOS, FACS
No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose
Christine Gaarder, MD, PhD, FACS
No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose
Galina A. Glinik, MD, FACS
No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose
David A. Hampton, MD, MEng, FACS
No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose
Richard Hilsden, MD, MBA, FRCSC, FACS
No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose
James C. Jeng, MD, FACS
No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose
Katherine Kelley, MD, FACS
No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose
Mansoor Khan, MBBS, PhD, MBA, FACS
No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose
Jorie D. Klein, MSN, MHA, RN
No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose
Deborah A. Kuhls, MD, FCCM, FACS
No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose
Alan D. Murdock, MD, FACS
No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose
Pål Aksel Næss, MD, PhD
No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose
Patricia A. O'Neill, RN, MD, FACS
No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose
Gerd D. Pust, MD, FCCM, FACS
No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose
Adin T. Putnam, MD, FACS
No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose
Kyle N. Remick, MD, FACS
No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose
Ronald M. Stewart, MD, FACS
No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose
Leonard J. Weireter, Jr., MD, FACS
No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose
Jeffrey S. Young, MD, MBA, FACS
No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose
David Zonies, MD, MPH, MBA, FCCM, FACS
No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose
Continuing Medical Education Credit Information
Accreditation
The American College of Surgeons is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™
The American College of Surgeons designates this enduring activity for a maximum of 4.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Of the AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ listed above, a maximum of 4.00 credits meet the requirements for Self-Assessment.
Of the AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ listed above, a maximum of 4.00 credits meet the requirements for Trauma*.
*The content of this activity may meet certain mandates of regulatory bodies. Please note that ACS has not and does not verify the content for such mandates with any regulatory body. Individual physicians are responsible for verifying the content satisfies such requirement.
Course Completion
Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the learner to earn credit toward the CME and Self-Assessment requirements of the American Board of Surgery’s Continuous Certification program.
By attending this activity, you give us permission to share your CME data with the CME Accrediting provider and the American Board of Surgery via the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education.
Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider Number CEP 17399 for 4 contact hours.
Available Credit
- 4.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
- 4.00 CE Contact hours
- 4.00 Certificate of Completion
- 4.00 Self Assessment Credit
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