Article ; Online: A disaster medicine course for Canadian medical students: first implementation of a large-scale mass-casualty simulation.
CJEM
2023 Volume 25, Issue 12, Page(s) 949–952
Abstract: Mass-casualty incidents have a significant global impact. Despite calls for improved disaster-preparedness training, most medical curriculums do not include formal disaster-medicine education. In 2021, the Medical Council of Canada introduced new ... ...
Abstract | Mass-casualty incidents have a significant global impact. Despite calls for improved disaster-preparedness training, most medical curriculums do not include formal disaster-medicine education. In 2021, the Medical Council of Canada introduced new disaster-medicine learning objectives. This article presents a mass-casualty-incident course for 3rd-year Canadian medical students. The course includes lectures, and a large-scale simulation of an explosion scene, field triage zone, and simulated emergency department (ED). The simulation incorporated "Dark-team-member" facilitators and 17 live actor and 8 mannequin patients with moulage. Pre-/post-event evaluation data was collected. One-hundred and twenty medical students participated in the course. Confidence in managing a real mass-casualty incident, on a scale from 1 to 10 (no-confidence to completely confident) significantly improved based on a Mann-Whitney U test, p < 0.05. Few formal medical student mass-casualty-incident courses exist. Combining "Dark-team-members" with live actors, imbedding clinician facilitators with medical students, and having a simulation with a continuous disaster scene to the ED are unique to this course. The methodology is presented for future replication. |
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MeSH term(s) | Humans ; Students, Medical ; Disaster Medicine/education ; Disaster Planning/methods ; Canada ; Triage/methods ; Mass Casualty Incidents |
Language | English |
Publishing date | 2023-11-10 |
Publishing country | England |
Document type | Journal Article |
ISSN | 1481-8043 |
ISSN (online) | 1481-8043 |
DOI | 10.1007/s43678-023-00601-3 |
Database | MEDical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System OnLINE |
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