VTrain: A novel curriculum for patient surge training in a multi-user virtual environment (MUVE)

Prehospital and Disaster Medicine

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 215-222

  Greci, Laura S ^a,b   Ramloll, Rameshsharma ^c,d   Hurst, Samantha ^e   Garman, Karen ^b   Beedasy, Jaishree ^c,d   Pieper, Eric B ^f   Huang, Ricky ^g   Higginbotham, Erin ^b   Agha, Zia ^a,b  

^a VA SAN DIEGO HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c IDAHO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d DeepSemaphore LLC   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f VA LONG BEACH HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

disaster; drill; emergency; simulation; surge; training; triage; virtual

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPUTER INTERFACE; CURRICULUM; DECISION MAKING; DISASTER PLANNING; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; MASS DISASTER; METHODOLOGY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PILOT STUDY; TEACHING;

ADULT; CURRICULUM; DECISION MAKING; DISASTER PLANNING; HUMANS; MASS CASUALTY INCIDENTS; PILOT PROJECTS; TEACHING; TRIAGE; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 84878324393     PISSN: 1049023X     EISSN: 19451938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1049023X13000083     Document Type: Article

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