Core competencies for disaster medicine and public health

Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 44-52

  Walsh, Lauren ^a   Subbarao, Italo ^a   Gebbie, Kristine ^b   Schor, Kenneth W ^c   Lyznicki, Jim ^a   Strauss Riggs, Kandra ^d   Cooper, Arthur ^e   Hsu, Edbert B ^f   King, Richard V ^g   Mitas, John A ^h   Hick, John ⁱ   Zukowski, Rebecca ^d   Altman, Brian A ^d   Steinbrecher, Ruth Anne ^a   James, James J ^a  

^a AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION   (United States)

^b FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences and the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center   (United States)

^d National Center for Disaster Medicine and Public Health   (United States)

^e Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^f JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^h AMERICAN COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS   (United States)

ⁱ HENNEPIN COUNTY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Core competencies; Disaster education; Disaster medicine; Disaster training; Preparedness; Public health

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CURRICULUM; DISASTER MEDICINE; DISASTER PLANNING; EDUCATION; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PUBLIC HEALTH; STANDARD; UNITED STATES;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CURRICULUM; DISASTER MEDICINE; DISASTER PLANNING; HUMANS; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84865382960     PISSN: 19357893     EISSN: 1938744X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/dmp.2012.4     Document Type: Article

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