Skill improvement during emergency response to terrorism training

Prehospital Emergency Care

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 507-514

  Scott, Joseph A ^a   Miller, Geoffrey T ^a   Issenberg, S Barry ^a   Brotons, Angel A ^a   Gordon, David Lee ^a   Gordon, Michael S ^a   McGaghie, William C ^b   Petrusa, Emil R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Clinical skills; Disaster; Education; EMS; Simulation; Terrorism

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COURSE CONTENT; CURRICULUM; EDUCATION PROGRAM; EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EQUIPMENT; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JOB PERFORMANCE; LEARNING; LEARNING ENVIRONMENT; MALE; MULTIMEDIA; NORMAL HUMAN; NURSE; PARAMEDICAL PERSONNEL; PHYSICIAN; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RANDOMIZATION; RESCUE PERSONNEL; SIMULATION; STAFF TRAINING; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEACHING; TEAMWORK; TERRORISM; UNITED STATES; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

ADULT; CERTIFICATION; CURRICULUM; DISASTER PLANNING; EMERGENCY MEDICAL TECHNICIANS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TERRORISM;

EID: 33749008513     PISSN: 10903127     EISSN: 15450066     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10903120600887072     Document Type: Article

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