University of Miami Emergency Response to Terrorism Web-based Refresher Course

Course overview

This is an 8-hour interactive, Internet refresher course for a multidisciplinary population of learners, including paramedic/firefighters, emergency medical technicians, hospital personnel, and law-enforcement officers, who have completed prior terrorism response training. The course reviews how to: - Recognize a potential terrorist incident and initiate incident operations - Implement personal and public safety protective measures - Perform appropriate decontamination - Implement incident and unified command systems and perform effective intra- and inter-agency communication - Provide emergency medical care specific to incident/patient type(s).