Areas of Competency
Internationally, disaster medicine specialists must demonstrate competency in areas of disaster healthcare and emergency management including but not limited to:
- Disaster behavioral health
- Disaster law
- Disaster planning
- Disaster preparation
- Disaster recovery
- Disaster response
- Disaster safety
- Medical consequences of disaster
- Medical consequences of terrorism
- Medical contingency planning
- Medical decontamination
- Medical implications of disaster
- Medical implications of terrorism
- Medical planning and preparation for disaster
- Medical planning and preparation for terrorism
- Medical recovery from disaster
- Medical recovery from terrorism
- Medical response to disaster
- Medical response to terrorism
- Medical response to weapons of mass destruction
- Medical surge, surge capacity and triage
- Psychosocial implications of disaster
- Psychosocial implications of terrorism
- Psychosocial triage
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