TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1983//
TI  - Disaster medicine training in France
JO  - Annals of emergency medicine
A1  - Feldstein, B.
A1  - Dufeu, N.
A1  - Handal, K.
A1  - Huguenard, P.
SP  - 621
EP  - 623
VL  - 12
IS  - 10
N2  - We describe the disaster medicine training program that has been developed in France by the anesthesia-reanimation specialists who provide emergency medical services. The diploma course is presented twice yearly over a two-week period to physicians of all disciplines. The 71-hour didactic program covers the background of disasters, various plans and strategies, tactics and logistics, techniques, and victim assessment and treatment. This is followed by a field exercise. Graduates then participate in a full-scale mock disaster exercise that lasts two days to one week. The development of such a course illustrates the attention that nations worldwide are giving to specialized physician training in disaster preparedness.
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SN  - 0196-0644
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -