Training Disaster Medicines Trainers - A Summer Course

1st International Summer Course

for Trainers in Disaster Medicine

Over the last century, the number of disasters has

remarkably increased indicating that future gen-

erations of physicians will be called upon to provide

mass-casualty treatment to an even greater extent

than before. We can see terrible examples of this all

over the world around us: the disastrous earth-

quake in Nepal, the storms and ffloods in Texas, just

to name the most recent ones.

We believe that, in most countries, medical students do not receive enough

training to face the peculiar challenges that disasters and humanitarian emer-

gencies pose to health services. We believe that education is the key action that

can reduce the mortality and morbidity of these situations, by creating more

and more skilled healthcare professionals, who are able to effectively manage

the disaster risk management cycle.

Since 2008, CRIMEDIM and the Segretariato Italiano Studenti in Medicina -

SISM have successfully been delivering a nationwide disaster medicine pro-

gram to provide theoretical knowledge and basic skills in this ffield, training 20

Italian disaster medicine trainers and more than 1500 medical students.

Base on this success, we deliver the 1st International Summer Course for

Trainers in Disaster Medicine. We aim to train a ffirst generation of interna-

tional Disaster Medicine Trainers who will be able to spread education to

their local communities by arranging further trainings and advocating for the

inclusion of disaster medicine in the medical curriculum.

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The Summer Course will cover all the major topics in the Disaster Risk Management ffield, with daily classes and trainings. The classes will include conventional lectures and innovative teaching methods, such as case dis-cussions, problem based learning, simulations, debates, trainings and the preparation of assignments over the course of the Course.

At the end of the Course, the newly trained Disaster Medicine Trainers will be able to plan and carry out a Training in Disaster Medicine using the notions learnt and trans-ferring them to other students in an effective way. The Trainers will be able to deliver the trainings to their local student committees and within the IFMSA General Assemblies and Regional Meetings.

Summer Course Program

The Summer Course Program will encompass the following

topics:

Principles of Disaster Medicine and humanitarian health

International Coordination for Disaster Response

Prehospital Disaster Management

Mass Casualty Triage

Incident Command System

H ospital Disaster Preparedness

H umanitarian Crises

Psychological First aid

Ethics in Disasters

Presentation Skills

Leadership

Adult Learning Theory

*A more detailed version of the program will be published shortly

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Program

The 2-week program will also include

workshops, discussion based exercises,

table top simulations, virtual reality si-

mulations and computer based simula-

tions.

Lectures and Simulations will be held at SIMNOVA, the brand new Simulation Center of the Universita del Piemonte Orientale.

Location of the Course CRIMEDIM Research Center in Emergency and Disaster Medicine University of Eastern Piedmont, Italy

Via Lanino 1, 28100 Novara, Italy Tel: +39 0321 660 519 Fax: +39 0321 660 531 Secretary: [email protected]

HOSTING NMO:

SISM - Segretariato Italiano Studenti in Medicina

Participation Fee The participation fee for the Summer Course is € 350

Accommodation For the entire duration of the course you will stay in apartments located in Novara. Each apartment can host 5 participants. Lunch, dinner and coffee breaks are included in the participation fee. All other extras, including lunch and dinner during the weekend, are at your charge.

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General Information

TdmT Organising Committee Patrick Achkar – IFMSA Que bec

Monika Bednarek – IFMSA Poland

Giancarlo Bruno – SISM Italy DisasterSISM Coordinator

Moa Herrgard – IFMSA LRP

Dr. Eleonora Leopardi – SISM Italy NOME

Dr. Ljiljana Lukic – IFMSA PSDD

Dr. Fabio Maccapani – CRIMEDIM

Dr. Marta Caviglia – CRIMEDIM

Dr. Luca Ragazzoni – CRIMEDIM

Contact [email protected]

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Welcome to Novara! During their stay, participants will have the opportunity to disco-ver the City of Novara and its at tract ions. The Summer Course in-cludes also a Social Program, with various social act ivit ies. Touristic tips. From Novara you can easily reach the cities of Milan and Turin by train in 1 hour. Novara is also very close to Lake Mag-giore and Lake Orta.

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Social Program

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