Disaster Management and Emergency Preparedness

Disaster Management and Emergency Preparedness (DMEP) teaches planning methods, preparedness, and medical management of trauma patients in mass casualty disaster situations.

Through lecture and interactive scenarios, you’ll learn incident command terminology, principles of disaster triage, injury patterns, and availability of assets for support.

DMEP will be offered several times this year at different locations. Participants will be able to demonstrate:

• Understand the surgical problems, injury patterns, and issues that may result from disasters

• Discuss the role that surgeons can play in planning for and responding to mass casualty incidents and disasters, especially at the hospital level

• Become familiar with the terms and concepts of incident command

• Understand the principles and challenges of disaster triage

• Become familiar with treatment principles related to blast injury, chemical attacks, and radiological dispersal devices

• Know the civilian and military assets available for support