Increasing emergency medicine residents' confidence in disaster management: Use of an emergency department simulator and an expedited curriculum

Prehospital and Disaster Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 31-35

  Franc, Jeffrey Michael ^a,b   Nichols, Darren ^a   Dong, Sandy L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN PIEDMONT   (Italy)

Author keywords

Disaster Medicine; education; Emergency Medicine; residency training; simulation; surge capacity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862060332     PISSN: 1049023X     EISSN: 19451938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1049023X11006807     Document Type: Article

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