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- The study aimed to identify and prioritize essential Disaster Medicine (DM) competencies for Emergency Medicine (EM) residency programs, factoring in time constraints and varying program expertise.
- A modified Delphi approach was used to create a core curriculum consisting of 40 prioritized DM topics relevant for EM training.
- Recommended topics include patient triage, disaster preparedness, hospital response to mass-casualty incidents, and various injury types, which could form the foundation for improving DM education in EM residencies across the US.
Article Abstract
Objectives: Disaster Medicine (DM) education for Emergency Medicine (EM) residents is highly variable due to time constraints, competing priorities, and program expertise. The investigators' aim was to define and prioritize DM core competencies for EM residency programs through consensus opinion of experts and EM professional organization representatives.
Methods: Investigators utilized a modified Delphi methodology to generate a recommended, prioritized core curriculum of 40 DM educational topics for EM residencies.
Results: The DM topics recommended and outlined for inclusion in EM residency training included: patient triage in disasters, surge capacity, introduction to disaster nomenclature, blast injuries, hospital disaster mitigation, preparedness, planning and response, hospital response to chemical mass-casualty incident (MCI), decontamination indications and issues, trauma MCI, disaster exercises and training, biological agents, personal protective equipment, and hospital response to radiation MCI.
Conclusions: This expert-consensus-driven, prioritized ranking of DM topics may serve as the core curriculum for US EM residency programs.
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