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Education in Disaster Management: What Do We Offer and What Do We Need? Proposing a New Global Program

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 July 2016

Amir Khorram-Manesh ,
Olivera Lupesco ,
Tom Friedl ,
Gotz Arnim ,
Kubilay Kaptan ,
Ahmadreza R. Djalali ,
Marco Foletti ,
Pier Luigi Ingrasia ,
Michael Ashkenazi  and
Chris Arculeo
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Amir Khorram-Manesh*
Affiliation:
Prehospital and Disaster Medicine Center, Department of Surgery, Institute of Clinical Sciences, Sahlgrenska Academy, Gothenburg University, Gothenburg, Sweden
Olivera Lupesco
Affiliation:
URGENTA, Clinical Emergency Hospital, Bucharest, Romania
Tom Friedl
Affiliation:
National Health Career School of Management, Hennigsdorf/Berlin, Germany
Gotz Arnim
Affiliation:
National Health Career School of Management, Hennigsdorf/Berlin, Germany
Kubilay Kaptan
Affiliation:
Civil Engineering Department, Beykent University, Istanbul, Turkey
Ahmadreza R. Djalali
Affiliation:
CRIMEDIM, Universita del Piemonte Orientale, Novara, Italy
Marco Foletti
Affiliation:
CRIMEDIM, Universita del Piemonte Orientale, Novara, Italy
Pier Luigi Ingrasia
Affiliation:
CRIMEDIM, Universita del Piemonte Orientale, Novara, Italy
Michael Ashkenazi
Affiliation:
Bonn International Center for Conversion, Bonn, Germany
Chris Arculeo
Affiliation:
Hanover Associates, Teddington, London, United Kingdom
Philipp Fischer
Affiliation:
University Clinic Bonn, Department of Orthopedic and Trauma Surgery, Bonn, Germany
Boris Hreckovski
Affiliation:
Croatian Urgent Medicine and Surgery Association, Slav. Brod, Croatia
Radko Komadina
Affiliation:
SBC, General and Teaching Hospital Celje, Medical Faculty, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Stefan Voigt
Affiliation:
DLR, German Aerospace Center, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
Eric Carlström
Affiliation:
Prehospital and Disaster Medicine Center, Department of Surgery, Institute of Clinical Sciences, Sahlgrenska Academy, Gothenburg University, Gothenburg, Sweden
James James
Affiliation:
Society for Disaster Medicine and Public Health, Bethesda, Maryland.
*
Correspondence and reprint requests to Amir Khorram-Manesh, MD, PhD, Prehospital and Disaster Medicine Centre, Department of Clinical Sciences, Sahlgrenska Academy, Gothenburg University, Gothenburg, Sweden (e-mail [email protected]).
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Abstract

Objective

Although there is a significant willingness to respond to disasters, a review of post-event reports following incidents shows troubling repeated patterns with poorly integrated response activities and response managers inadequately trained for the requirements of disasters. This calls for a new overall approach in disaster management.

Methods

An in-depth review of the education and training opportunities available to responders and disaster managers has been undertaken, as well as an extensive review of the educational competencies and their parent domains identified by subject matter experts as necessary for competent performance.

Results

Seven domains of competency and competencies that should be mastered by disaster mangers were identified. This set of domains and individual competencies was utilized to define a new and evolving curriculum. In order to evaluate and assess the mastery of each competency, objectives were more widely defined as activities under specific topics, as the measurable elements of the curriculum, for each managerial level.

Conclusions

This program enables interagency cooperation and collaboration and could be used to increase and improve decision-makers’ understanding of disaster managers’ capabilities; at the strategic/tactical level to promote the knowledge and capability of the disaster managers themselves; and as continuing education or further career development for disaster managers at the operational level. (Disaster Med Public Health Preparedness. 2016;10:854–873)

Keywords

disaster managementpublic healtheducationglobal programsimulation
Type
Original Research
Information
Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness , Volume 10 , Issue 6 , December 2016 , pp. 854 - 873
Copyright
Copyright © Society for Disaster Medicine and Public Health, Inc. 2016 

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