Medical Incident Management and Preparedness Curriculum Development

Establishing disaster medicine educational infrastructure to train healthcare providers in southeast Wisconsin

Full Project Name:Medical Incident Management and Preparedness Curriculum DevelopmentPrincipal Investigator:Ronald Pirrallo, MD, MHSA, Emergency MedicineCo-Investigator:E Brooke Lerner, PhD, Emergency Medicine; Jason Liu, MD, Emergency MedicineAward Amount:$123,430

Award Date

July2009

Project Duration:17 months

Project Description Narrative:

On a moment’s notice, Wisconsin’s healthcare providers will be called upon to provide disaster medicine. Disaster preparedness and medical incident management education are paramount for all medical personnel to best serve their community in preparedness, response, mitigation and recovery efforts. This project aims to develop the educational infrastructure for medical personnel to gain disaster medicine clinical knowledge and skills. This infrastructure will be used to train MCW medical students, residents, fellows, faculty and other community health care providers and leaders.