@article{ref1,
title="A disaster medicine course for Canadian medical students: first implementation of a large-scale mass-casualty simulation",
journal="Canadian journal of emergency medicine",
year="2023",
author="Eastwood, Kyle W. and Harris, Adam and Armstrong, John B. P.",
volume="ePub",
number="ePub",
pages="ePub-ePub",
abstract="Mass-casualty incidents have a significant global impact. Despite calls for improved disaster-preparedness training, most medical curriculums do not include formal disaster-medicine education. In 2021, the Medical Council of Canada introduced new disaster-medicine learning objectives. This article presents a mass-casualty-incident course for 3rd-year Canadian medical students. The course includes lectures, and a large-scale simulation of an explosion scene, field triage zone, and simulated emergency department (ED). The simulation incorporated &quot;Dark-team-member&quot; facilitators and 17 live actor and 8 mannequin patients with moulage. Pre-/post-event evaluation data was collected. One-hundred and twenty medical students participated in the course. Confidence in managing a real mass-casualty incident, on a scale from 1 to 10 (no-confidence to completely confident) significantly improved based on a Mann-Whitney U test, p < 0.05. Few formal medical student mass-casualty-incident courses exist. Combining &quot;Dark-team-members&quot; with live actors, imbedding clinician facilitators with medical students, and having a simulation with a continuous disaster scene to the ED are unique to this course. The methodology is presented for future replication.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1481-8035",
doi="10.1007/s43678-023-00601-3",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s43678-023-00601-3"
}