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Core Curriculum for Event Medical Leaders
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 May 2019
Abstract
The literature on mass gatherings has expanded over the last decade. However, no readily accessible curriculum exists to prepare and support event medical leaders. Such a curriculum has the potential to align event medical professionals on improving event safety, standardizing emergency response, and reducing community impacts.
We organized collaborative expert focus groups on the proposed “core curriculum” and “electives.”
Key features of a mass gathering medical curriculum include operations-focused, evidence-informed, best-known practices offered via low barrier, modular, flexible formats with interactive options, and a multi-national focus.
Core content proposed:
Background (Definitions, Context, Risk, Legalities)
Event Medical Planning - “The Seven Steps” - (1.) Assessment and Environmental Scan - Event Emergency Action Plan, (2.) Human Resources, (3.) Equipment/Supplies, (4.) Infrastructure/Logistics, (5.) Transportation (To, On, From), (6.)
Communication (Pre, During, Post), and (7.) Administration/Medical Direction
Event After-Action Reporting
Case-based Activities
Electives mirror Core outline and serve as expanded case-studies of specific event categories. Initially proposed electives include:
Concerts/Music Festivals
Running Events
Cycling Events
Multi-Sport Events
Obstacle Adventure Courses
Staged Wilderness Courses
Amateur Games
Political Gatherings & Orations
Religious Gatherings & Pilgrimages
Community Gatherings (e.g., Parades, Fireworks, etc.)
Complex team learning to standardize real-world approaches has been accomplished in other medical domains (e.g., ACLS, AHLS, ATLS, PALS, etc.). A course for event medicine should not re-teach medical content (i.e. first aid, paramedicine, nursing, medicine); it should make available a commonly understood, systematic approach to planning, execution, and post-event evaluation vis a vis health services at events. A ‘train the trainer’ model will be required, with business operations support for sustainable course delivery. The author team seeks community feedback at WCDEM 2019 in creating ‘the ACLS’ of Event Medicine.
- Type
- Poster Presentations
- Information
- Prehospital and Disaster Medicine , Volume 34 , Issue s1: Abstracts of Poster-Presentations-WADEM Congress on Disaster and Emergency Medicine 2019 , May 2019 , pp. s112 - s113
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- © World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine 2019