ADMR: Unique Challenges in Disaster Medical Care for Providers (CE Version)

The Advanced Disaster Medical Response (ADMR) Course is an innovative online program designed for multidisciplinary disaster responders working in domestic or international settings and across a wide range of disaster scenarios. Built around real-world disaster response, the interactive, modular format allows learners to develop knowledge relevant to their roles and response needs.

ADMR was developed in cooperation with the Massachusetts General Hospital Department of Surgery’s International Trauma and Disaster Institute (ITDI), with contributions from 28 medical subject matter experts with extensive disaster response experience.

Principles of Disaster Medical Response — Core Modules

The ADMR curriculum begins with Principles of Disaster Medical Response, a foundational package of seven core modules that provides essential knowledge for multidisciplinary disaster response.

Completion of the Core Modules package is required before enrolling in any additional ADMR packages.

The Core Modules package is available in three options:

Unique Challenges in Disaster Medical Care for Providers

After completing the Core Modules, learners can expand their ADMR training through additional topic-focused packages. 

Unique Challenges in Disaster Medical Care for Providers focuses on patient populations and injury types that require specialized considerations during disaster response. Through modules on extremity injuries, burn injuries, pediatric disaster care, and obstetrical care, learners explore key principles for assessment, triage, initial management, and recognition of time-sensitive complications in resource-constrained environments.

This package emphasizes practical decision-making and adapting care to the clinical and operational challenges encountered during disasters. 

It includes four modules:

  • Extremity Injuries

  • Burn Injuries

  • Pediatric Disaster Planning

  • Obstetrical Care in Disasters

This package is also available in three options:

Target Audience

All current, future, and interested disaster responders and support groups.

Learning Objectives

By the end of this course, you will be aware of the key principles of disaster preparedness and response and will be able to:

  1. Recognize unique clinical considerations that affect the assessment and management of patients with extremity injuries, burn injuries, pediatric patients, and pregnant patients during disasters.
  2. Apply appropriate assessment, triage, and initial management principles for these patient populations and injury types in a disaster setting.
  3. Identify time-sensitive conditions and complications that require immediate intervention, specialized care, or transfer.
  4. Adapt patient management strategies to the clinical and resource constraints encountered during disaster response.

Contact 

For questions about course content or help with navigation, please contact us at [email protected].

Bulk discounts available.

Course summary

Available credit: 
  • 4.00 CE Contact hours
  • 4.00 Certificate of Completion
Course opens: 
10/12/2026
Course expires: 
10/12/2029
Rating: 
0

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.

ADMR Planning Committee:

Susan Miller Briggs, MD, MPH, FACS
No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose

David V. Shatz, MD, FACS
No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose

David. P. Blake, MD, MPH, DMCC, FACS, FACHE, FSIS
No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose

ADMR Subject Medical Experts:

Christopher T. Born MD, FACS, FAAOS, FIOTA
BioIntraface, Stockholder, Board of Directors, Chief Medical Officer
BI Medical, Stockholder, Chief Medical Officer
IlluminOss, Consultant Fees, Chief Medical Officer
Stryker Orthopaedics, Royalties, Product Designer

Mark W. Bowyer MD, FACS, FRCS (Glasg) FRCS-hon (Thailand), DMCC
No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose

Eric H. Bradburn, DO, MS, FACS
No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose

Marko Bukur, MD, FACS
Zimmer Biomet, Consulting Fees, Educator/Consultant

Eileen Bulger, MD, FACS
No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose

Jeannette Capella, MD, MEd, FACS
No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose

Jay Doucet MD, MSc, FRCSC, FACS, RDMS
No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose

Alexander L. Eastman, MD, MPH, FACS, FAEMS
No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose

Mary E. Fallat MD, FACS
No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose

Adam D. Fox DO, FACS
Teleflex, Consulting Fees, Medical Advisory Board

Annekathryn Goodman, MD, MPH, MA, MS, FACS, FACOG
No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose

Sharon Henry MD, FACS
No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose

John B. Holcomb MD, FACS
Aspem Medical, Salary, Consultant
CCJ Medical, Equity, Board member
Decisio Health, Equity, Board member
Hemostatics, Equity, Board member
QinFlow, Equity, Board member
WFIRM, Salary, Consultant
Zibrio, Equity, Board member

Donald H. Jenkins MD, FACS
No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose

David F. Lawlor MD, FACS, FRCSC
Zim Vie, Honoraria, Lecturer
Highridge Medical, Honoraria, Lecturer

Manuel Lorenzo MD, MBA, FACS, FCCM
No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose

Tina L. Palmieri MD, FACS, FABA, MCCM
No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose

Gerd Daniel Pust, MD, MBA, FACS, FCCM, DABS
No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose

A. Tyler Putnam, II, MD, FACS, FCCM
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

Peter Rhee MD, MPH, FACS, FCCM, DMCC
No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose

Martin A. Schreiber MD, FACS, FCCM
CSL Behring, Institutional Support, Advisory Panel Member
Haemonetics, Institutional Support, Advisory Panel Member

John T. Schulz III, MD, PhD, FACS
No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose

Robert L. Sheridan, MD, FACS
No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose

Jeffrey S. Upperman, MD, FACS, FAAP
No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose

ADMR Consultants:

Edward (Ted) M. Kennedy, EdD
No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose

Julie Cwik, MSEd, MSLIS
No relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose

At the completion of this course, learners will receive a CE Certificate.

Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider Number CEP 17399 for 4.0 contact hours.

CE Credit Claiming Information

All attendees must complete the course evaluation in order to claim a CE Certificate. The course evaluation will appear once you take and complete this course. The following requirements will need to be completed:

  • Review all course materials 
  • Course evaluation

Available Credit

  • 4.00 CE Contact hours
  • 4.00 Certificate of Completion
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