Curriculum Recommendations for Disaster Health Professionals: The Geriatric Population
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Curriculum Recommendations for Disaster Health Professionals: The Geriatric Population
"Curriculum Recommendations for Disaster Health Professionals: The Geriatric Population" is NCDMPH's third in a series of peer-reviewed disaster health curriculum recommendations. These recommendations were created in collaboration with the Uniformed Services University's Daniel K. Inouye Graduate School of Nursing and the F. Edward Hébert School of Medicine. The contributing authors include Catherine G Ling, PhD FNP-BC, Elexis C. McBee, LCDR, USN, DO, FACP and Heather L Johnson, Lt Col, USAF, (Ret), DNP, FNP-BC, FAANP.
"Curriculum Recommendations for Disaster Health Professionals: The Geriatric Population" provide resources on planning education and training activities for health professionals that serve the geriatric population. These recommendations align with the disaster health core competencies outlined in "Core Competencies for Disaster Medicine and Public Health" in Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness, the co-authored article by AMA Center for Public Health Preparedness and Disaster Response and five NCDMPH staff members.
The information found in this document is not a prescriptive curriculum, but rather recommendations. Educators should tailor these recommendations for their particular needs and circumstances, selecting those learning objectives, topics, and resources which are appropriate for their learners’ needs, and the scope of their education and training program.
Suggested Citation:
Johnson HL, McBee EC, Ling CG. Curriculum recommendations for disaster health professionals: the geriatric population. August 2014.
Core Competencies for Disaster Medicine and Public Health
In August 2010, the American Medical Association (AMA) Center for Public Health Preparedness and Disaster Response (CPHPDR) convened representatives of multiple health fields, including staff from the
The project was funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention under the Terrorism Injuries: Information Dissemination and Exchange (TIIDE) Program, and became known as the NCDMPH/AMA TIIDE project. NCDMPH, to collaboratively identify the common or "core" competencies that could be reasonably expected of all potential Emergency Support Function #8 (ESF-8) health system responders.
In March of 2012, the goals of the project were realized with the publication of "Core Competencies for Disaster Medicine and Public Health") in Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness (DMPHP).
The article's 11 core competencies (and 36 sub-competencies) are a result of two years of discussion, survey questionnaires and research from a broad and diverse group of stakeholders.
Five staff members from the NCDMPH (Dr. Kenneth Schor, Kandra Strauss-Riggs, Dr. Brian Altman, and former Senior Research Associates Rebecca Zukowski and lead-author Lauren Walsh) contributed to the article.
The full-text of the article is now accessible from the NCDMPH website: "Core Competencies for Disaster Medicine and Public Health."