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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 Information
In accordance with ACCME regulations (ACCME Standard 3), the American College of Surgeons must ensure that anyone who is able to control the content of the activity has disclosed all financial relationships with any ineligible companies in the 24 months prior to their involvement in the educational activity.
Ineligible Company: Companies that are ineligible to be accredited in the ACCME system (ineligible companies) are those whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, reselling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. |
Financial Relationships: Financial relationships are relevant if the following three conditions are met for the individual who will control content of the education: 1) a financial relationship, in any amount, exists between the person in control of content and an ineligible company; 2) the financial relationship existed in the last 24 months; 3) the content of the education is related to the products of an ineligible company with whom the person has a financial relationship. |
All CME Planners and Speakers /Moderators/Discussants/Authors/Editors involved in the development and/or presentation of CME content must complete this form. This form must be updated whenever circumstances require. As relevant, all disclosure information for speakers must be revealed by a slide at the beginning of the presentation.
Disclosures
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
Nothing to disclose
John H. Armstrong, MD, FACS
Nothing to disclose
David Zonies, MD, MPH, MBA, FCCM, FACS
Nothing to disclose
eDMEP Author Disclosures:
John H. Armstrong, MD, FACS
Nothing to disclose
David P. Blake, MD, FACS
Nothing to disclose
Kenneth D. Boffard, MBBCh, FRCS, FACS(Hon)
Nothing to disclose
Eileen M. Bulger, MD, FACS
Nothing to disclose
Jeannette M. Capella, MD, MEd, FACS
Nothing to disclose
Jay J. Doucet, MD, FRCSC, FACS
Nothing to disclose
James R. Ficke, MD, FAAOS, FACS
Nothing to disclose
Christine Gaarder, MD, PhD, FACS
Nothing to disclose
Galina A. Glinik, MD, FACS
Nothing to disclose
David A. Hampton, MD, MEng, FACS
Nothing to disclose
Richard Hilsden, MD, MBA, FRCSC, FACS
Nothing to disclose
James C. Jeng, MD, FACS
Nothing to disclose
Katherine Kelley, MD, FACS
Nothing to disclose
Mansoor Khan, MBBS, PhD, MBA, FACS
Nothing to disclose
Jorie D. Klein, MSN, MHA, RN
Nothing to disclose
Deborah A. Kuhls, MD, FCCM, FACS
Nothing to disclose
Alan D. Murdock, MD, FACS
Nothing to disclose
Pål Aksel Næss, MD, PhD
Nothing to disclose
Patricia A. O'Neill, RN, MD, FACS
Nothing to disclose
Gerd D. Pust, MD, FCCM, FACS
Nothing to disclose
Adin T. Putnam, MD, FACS
Nothing to disclose
Kyle N. Remick, MD, FACS
Nothing to disclose
Ronald M. Stewart, MD, FACS
Nothing to disclose
Leonard J. Weireter, Jr., MD, FACS
Nothing to disclose
Jeffrey S. Young, MD, MBA, FACS
Nothing to disclose
David Zonies, MD, MPH, MBA, FCCM, FACS
Nothing 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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The following is the fee for the course: $295.00. You will be asked to register for the course and provide payment information to complete the registration process.
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