Coordinated by Uniform Services University, the eight hour
course consists of eleven, 30-minute to one-hour online
training lessons covering a variety of disaster health topics
such as personal or family preparedness, communication,
ethical and legal issues encountered in
disasters, and much more. Free and designed for
flexibility, courses can be taken one at a time or all at
once. The foundation of this curriculum is
the Core Competencies
for Disaster Medicine and Public Health.
A guide for physician’s covering 3 main objectives:
1.Discuss the physician role in HICSi
2.Discuss the principal concepts and features of the Hospital
Incident Command System
3.Discuss how the hospital is part of the community response
The core purpose of the Disaster Information Management Research
Center (DIMRC) is to develop and provide access to health
information resources and technology for disaster preparedness,
response, and recovery. The program’s objective is connect people
to quality disaster health information and foster a culture of
community resiliency.
