Emergency Mananagement
Track Curriculum 2008/09
The Emergency Management Track will provide students with exposure and experience in medical disaster planning, preparedness and response.
Track Objectives
- To understand mechanisms of injury in natural and man-made disasters, as well as injuries due to biological, chemical, radiological and nuclear terrorism
- To learn all aspects of hospital preparedness including emergency preparedness plans, personal protective equipment, isolation capacity, decontamination capability, etc.
- To understand the incident command system
- To become familiar with federal, state, and local response agency assets such as the National Disaster Medical System, the Emergency Management Agency, the Emergency Medical and Health Services Administration, and The American Red Cross
- To understand issues surrounding mass casualty response such as mass triage, surge capacity, mass prophylaxis, volunteer credentialing and multi-agency coordination
Track Activities
Required First & Second Year Activities
- Attend lecture series
- Register online through Blackboard for the Emergency Management course
- Participate in an Experiential Opportunity in the Summer following first year
- Students must submit a project proposal including scope of work, a timeline, objectives/goals, and the organization/mentor with which the student will be working including contact information.
- After project completion, students are required to submit a 2-4 page paper to include the student’s project scope, the role the student played in the project, how the project changed from the original proposal, and reflections on the experience.
- Present a summary of the experience in the Fall following the project to the MS I class
- Complete the FEMA Independent Study courses online as outlined on Blackboard
Required Third-Fourth Year Activities
- Practice of Medicine Scholarly Project will be related to track of study
- Students are required to turn in documentation related to their Scholarly Project into the OSO in addition to the POM office
- Fourth-Elective related to Emergency Management
- Students are required to provide a write-up of their elective rotation
- Students will complete an Elective Rotation Project where they will determine how Emergency Management will be applicable to the student during their internship and residency.
Track Lecture Series
Topic Areas for Years I & II (sampling)
- Biological agents and principles of isolation and prophylaxis; case study of the anthrax attack
- Chemical agents and principles of decontamination; case study of the Tokyo subway sarin attack
- Response to radiation disasters
- Introduction to incident command structure; case study of the first World Trade Center bombing
- Healthcare system emergency preparedness
- NDMS response to the Florida hurricanes of 2004
- The Toronto SARS experience
- Collapsed structure rescue; case study of the Turkish earthquake
- The 2005 presidential inauguration and the role of the Strategic National Stockpile
- Humanitarian disaster relief
- The terrorist attacks of September 11th
- Psychological response to terrorism
- Personal preparedness for disasters
Other Extracurricular Opportunities
- Students will be a assigned a mentor in the field of Emergency Management
- Students will have opportunities to work with faculty members on projects, research, and publications
- Students will have opportunities to sit in on other related subject matters to Emergency Management
Experiential Opportunities
Summer Internships/Senior Elective Host Sites (sampling)
- Center for Emergency Preparedness
- DC Emergency Management Agency
- DC Department of Health
- DC Emergency Medical Services ( EMS )
- Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
- Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) Program on Emergency Preparedness and Disaster Relief
- USAID, Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA)
- Serve DC/Citizen Corps
- The Center for International Emergency, Disaster, and Refugee Studies (CIEDRS) at John Hopkins University
- Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
- Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
- Centers for Disease Control
*Other educational opportunities and activities to enrich students’ experiences may be added to the curriculum during the program, per the discretion of the Track Director.