PDHealth.mil strives to provide busy clinicians with a centralized location to
access education and training resources. We will introduce you to an easy way
to access training tools of merit that provide information on current topics of
interest in addition to more traditional deployment health concerns. Come back
often for new events and training opportunities.
PHTN: The Public Health Training Network
Business and Managed Care Diabetes and Health resource Kit
This online diabetes and health resource kit will help businesses and managed care companies to assess the impact of diabetes in the workplace. It also provides easy-to-understand information for employers to help their employees manage their diabetes and take steps toward reducing the risk for diabetes-related complications.
Medical Response to Weapons of Mass Destruction
MEDICAL RESPONSE TO WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION an online course on nuclear, biological, and chemical warfare
for health care providers now comes with continuing education units for physicians and nurses. Medical Response
to Weapons of Mass Destruction is a collaboration among Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Uniformed Services
University of the Health Sciences (USUHS) and Medantic Technology.
The Medantic Technology platform used for the course won first prize in the Macromedia eLearning Innovation
Awards Program. Here is what the judges had to say, "Users will feel as though they've learned a tremendous
amount in a short period of time. The Medantic application is also a great demonstration of "just-enough"
learning that can be delivered "just in time" to either a desktop browser or a handheld device. The application
exemplifies the benefits of modular reusable content and how it can make e-learning available in different
learning and delivery contexts."
Medical Response to Weapons of Mass Destruction delivers:
- Ten interactive modules (consisting of a case and lecture) addressing the most likely agents used in terrorist
attacks:
| - Anthrax |
- Cyanide |
| - Plague |
- Incapacitating Agents |
| - Small Pox |
- Mustard |
| - Venezuelan |
- Nerve Agents |
| - Equine Encephalitis |
- Radiation Injury |
| - Botulinum Toxin |
|
- Consistent instructional design including lectures, cases and post-tests
- Engaging flash animations and audio to enhance the learning experience
- Additional lectures on: Principles of Emergency Decontamination, Nerve Agents: Sarin Mechanism of Action
- Certificate of completion from USUHS
- Continuing education units for physicians and nurses
Call now for more information: 1-800-326-1685
or
Email: wmdcourse@LWW.com
To see a sample
Click here: http://www.wmddemo.com/
The Centers for Disease Control provides a distance-learning tool for clinicians
and public health professionals. See their catalog
for programs of interest to you.
Clinical Diagnosis and Management of Anthrax - Lessons Learned
This final in a series of three broadcasts was designed by the CDC in
response to the bioterrorism threat and presented on November 29, 2001. This
broadcast presents an update on the clinical management of bioterrorism-related
anthrax and includes an overview of clinical diagnosis and treatment
recommendations. Viewers can watch the entire web cast or select from various
expert presentations. In addition to the webcast, a set of PowerPoint slides
developed and presented by the panel of experts is provided. Previous episodes
in the series are also available.
CDC Responds: Risk Communication and Bioterrorism
A panel of experts on risk communication presents information and checklists
on how best to plan a communications strategy in the area of bioterrorism. They
briefly review the special circumstances of a high risk-low trust environment and
how that atmosphere can contribute to the development of medically unexplained
physical symptoms or MUPS. Emergency Risk Communication Planning Checklists are
also available for downloading.
Army Suicide Prevention Training Program
Army Suicide Prevention Training Program is being sponsored The Center for Health Promotion and Preventive
Medicine (CHPPM). This training is open to members of the Army and Army components (including civilians) in the
Social Behavior AOC/Job Series, Mental Health Specialists/Nurses, Psychologists, Psychiatrists, Chaplains, and
Chaplains Assistants. The 5-day sessions include the Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training will be held in
February and in March.
The Epidemiology of Fear
The National Library of Medicine: An Interactive Guide to Commonly Encountered Substances
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