Course Director:
Veronica Calhoun, PA
Phone: 513-585-8962
Email:veronica.calhoun@uc.edu

Course Coordinator:
Vicki Conneighton
Office: UC Health Business Center, Suite A100
Phone: 513-558-8962
Email: vicki.conneighton@uc.edu

First Responder is the first of four healthcare emergency management courses and will complement the other three years of the healthcare emergency management curriculum. The course requires mandatory attendance for both lectures and small group skill sessions which will occur over your first two weeks of medical school. Additionally, there are reading assignments and the American Heart Association (AHA) online basic life support course that will need to be completed.

The course is designed to teach the novice medical school student how to detect the difference between the stable and unstable patient and provide basic emergency medical treatment. You will learn how to take vital signs, perform CPR, maintain an airway, control bleeding and assess patients. This first course is designed as a basic course only and provides the student with the foundation upon which all other medical school courses build.

Overall course objectives:

1. Apply the fundamental knowledge of anatomy and function of all human systems to the provision of basic emergency care.
2. Use foundational anatomical and medical terms in written and oral communication with colleagues and other health care providers.
3. Perform a simple medical and trauma assessment to identify and correct life threats.
4. Understand the guidelines on cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and emergency cardiac care (ECC).

Course Director:
Dustin Calhoun, MD
Phone: 513-585-8962
Email:dustin.calhoun@uc.edu

Course Coordinator:
Gina Burg
Office: Medical Sciences Building Room G453C
Phone: 513-558-8447
Email: gina.burg@uc.edu

2 hours of individual study prior to a 4 hour lecture/small group session.

Overall course objectives:

1. Provide a general overview and understanding of triage as it applies to situations of mass casualty incidents.
2. Understand and follow Simple Triage And Rapid Treatment (START). A method that provides rescuers with an easy, simple step-by-step approach to assessing and treating a large number of patients with varying degrees of injuries.
3. Provide an overview of the disaster operations, natural disasters, and explosive incidents.
4. Understand the available levels of disaster response from the individual, to the community, to national and international.

Course Directors:
Dustin Calhoun, MD
Phone: 513-585-8962
Email:dustin.calhoun@uc.edu

Course Coordinator:
Gina Burg
Office: Medical Sciences Building Room G453C
Phone: 513-558-8447
Email: gina.burg@uc.edu

2 hours of individual study prior to a 4 hour lecture/small group session.

Overall course objectives:

1. Provide a general overview and understanding of the Incident Command System (ICS) as it applies to the National Response Framework.
2. Provide an opportunity for students to integrate their understanding of ICS and disaster medicine into the management of a large-scale public health emergency via a hypothetical epidemic tabletop exercise. This tabletop exercise is one of the Homeland Security national scenarios adapted to the Greater Cincinnati Region.
3. Provide an overview of the unique aspects of the large categories of "disasters": biologic, and chemical/radiologic to include the importance of decontamination and toxicology.
4. Discussion on how a public health disaster affects the community, the healthcare community, and medical resources. Includes medical care, ethics, hospital operations and how medical school students could be utilized. The discussion centers on the physician's role in the community during and after a disaster.

Course Director:
Kay Vonderschmidt, D.Sc, MPA, CEM, NHDP-BC, NRP
Phone: 513-585-8962
Email:vondermk@ucmail.uc.edu

Dustin Calhoun, MD
Phone: 513-585-8962
Email:dustin.calhoun@uc.edu

Course Coordinator:
Gina Burg
Office: Medical Sciences Building Room G453C
Phone: 513-558-8447
Email: gina.burg@uc.edu

This course is the last of your four healthcare emergency management courses and will complement the other three years of the healthcare emergency management curriculum. This course will be delivered online through the UC Blackboard platform and consist of three videos and three discussion boards. The video content includes the subject areas of medical response to the Boston Marathon bombing, the psychological aspects of disasters and how disasters impact children.

Overall course objectives:

1. Discuss why it is important for a physician’s family to be prepared for disasters.
2. Discuss the role the hospital plays in the community during a disaster.
3. Discuss various disaster settings and community stakeholders.
4. Identify ways to achieve personal preparedness.
5. Identify ways to become involved in your community disaster response agencies.
6. Recognize the triggers of psychological distress.
7. Raise awareness of the types of psychological effects to expect after a disaster.
8. Provide principles and tools to bring back to your health care facility to augment your response plan and strengthen resources.
9. Help train staff at your facility to increase their knowledge and ability to plan and respond to the psychological consequences of large-scale emergencies.
10. Discuss the psychological impacts of a disaster for a child.