Abstract：
:Experience gained from involvement in a number of emergency response activities since September 2001 in Texas indicated that the likely roles of statewide medical reserve corps units typically included aspects such as crowd control, registration and tracking, and information management. The need for training specifically focused on these likely roles became apparent. A novel field training exercise was developed that specifically focused on these likely roles. The exercise centered on a scenario involving the surreptitious placement of radioactivity in high traffic areas across the country, resulting in the contamination of large numbers of individuals. Because the source of the contamination was unknown, surge capacity contamination screening and data collection centers became necessary. Feedback collected from drill participants was measured to be overwhelmingly positive, with the vast majority of participants indicating a marked improvement in their understanding of their likely roles in a disaster of this type. The approach used in this training effort may be of use to other disaster surge capacity organizations as part of their strategic planning efforts as a means of ensuring that individuals involved in response activities possess familiarity with their likely roles during a wide scale public health disaster event.
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Health Physjournal_title
Health physicsauthors
Emery RJ,Sprau DD,Morecook RC,Herbold Jdoi
10.1097/HP.0b013e3181aeb3d5subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2009-11-01 00:00:00pages
S155-60issue
5 Suppleissn
0017-9078issn
1538-5159pii
00004032-200911001-00002journal_volume
97pub_type
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