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Disaster Medicine Physician
Occupation
Names
Physician
Occupation type
Specialty
Activity sectors
Medicine
Description
Education required
Doctor of Medicine (M.D.)
Doctor of Osteopathic medicine (D.O.)
Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (M.B.B.S.)
Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MBChB)
Fields of employment
Hospitals, Clinics
Triage station at the Pentagon after the impact of American Airlines Flight 77 during the September 11, 2001 attacksU.S. Navy sailors assigned to the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson treat a baby injured by 2010 Haiti earthquakeTreatment of the survivors of the 2017 Kermanshah earthquake
Disaster medicine is the area of medical specialization serving the dual areas of providing health care to disaster survivors and providing medically related disaster preparation, disaster planning, disaster response and disaster recovery leadership throughout the disaster life cycle. Disaster medicine specialists provide insight, guidance and expertise on the principles and practice of medicine both in the disaster impact area and healthcare evacuation receiving facilities to emergency management professionals, hospitals, healthcare facilities, communities and governments. The disaster medicine specialist is the liaison between and partner to the medical contingency planner, the emergency management professional, the incident command system, government and policy makers.
Disaster medicine is unique among the medical specialties in that unlike all other areas of specialization, the disaster medicine specialist does not practice the full scope of the specialty everyday but only in emergencies. Indeed, the disaster medicine specialist hopes to never practice the full scope of skills required for board certification. However, like specialists in public health, environmental medicine and occupational medicine, disaster medicine specialists engage in the development and modification of public and private policy, legislation, disaster planning and disaster recovery. Within the United States of America, the specialty of disaster medicine fulfills the requirements set for by Homeland Security Presidential Directives (HSPD), the National Response Plan (NRP), the National Incident Management System (NIMS), the National Resource Typing System (NRTS) and the NIMS Implementation Plan for Hospitals and Healthcare Facilities.
related disaster preparation, disaster planning, disaster response and disaster recovery leadership throughout the disaster life cycle. Disastermedicine specialists...
Henry (March 1999). "KAMEDO — A Swedish DisasterMedicine Study Organization". Prehospital and DisasterMedicine. 14 (1): 25–33. doi:10.1017/S1049023X0002851X...
Sub-specializations of emergency medicine include; disastermedicine, medical toxicology, point-of-care ultrasonography, critical care medicine, emergency medical services...
The American Academy of DisasterMedicine (AADM) was founded in 2006 to promote the science and art of disaster healthcare. It is one of the newest medical...
Disaster response refers to the actions taken directly before, during or in the immediate aftermath of a disaster. The objective is to save lives, ensure...
and health. Disastermedicine – branch of medicine that provides healthcare services to disaster survivors; guides medically related disaster preparation...
Prehospital and DisasterMedicine is a bimonthly peer-reviewed medical journal covering research in the field of emergency medicine, including out-of-hospital...
medicine, environmental medicine, or medical geology. Disastermedicine deals with medical aspects of emergency preparedness, disaster mitigation and management...
times. He has lectured and published extensively in the field of disastermedicine and domestic preparedness. His experience directing the response at...
Doctor of Medicine (abbreviated M.D., from the Latin Medicinae Doctor) is a medical degree, the meaning of which varies between different jurisdictions...
M. Cox; John Firth; Estée Török (11 October 2012). Oxford Textbook of Medicine: Infection. OUP Oxford. p. 39. ISBN 978-0-19-965213-6. Melander, Roberta...
A disaster is a serious problem that happens over a period of time and causes so much harm to people, things, economies, or the environment that the affected...
World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine (WADEM) is an international organization concerned with disastermedicine. Originally named the...
Pediatrics (also spelled paediatrics or pædiatrics) is the branch of medicine that involves the medical care of infants, children, adolescents, and young...
medical doctor, or simply doctor is a health professional who practices medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring health through...
Disastermedicine as a specialty and mindset was not only a reaction from September 11, 2001, but to the numerous subsequent events that seemed to all...
(help) Waeckerle, Joseph F. (March 21, 1991). "Disaster Planning and Response". New England Journal of Medicine. 324 (12): 815–821. doi:10.1056/nejm199103213241206...
team Crisis management Business continuity planning DisastermedicineDisaster response Disaster risk reduction Emergency communication system Emergency...
emergency medicine, Military medicine, Humanitarian aid, Disastermedicine and Public health. The future of extreme, expedition, and wilderness medicine will...
1996). "Disaster Triage: START, then SAVE—A New Method of Dynamic Triage for Victims of a Catastrophic Earthquake". Prehospital and DisasterMedicine. 11...
(2007). "Mass-Gathering Medicine: A Review of the Evidence and Future Directions for Research". Prehospital and DisasterMedicine. 22 (2): 131–135. doi:10...
Careers as a First Responder (2012), p. 59. Gregory R. Ciottone, DisasterMedicine (2006), p. 141. CDC (2020-04-30). "First Responders, Law Enforcement...
(Persian: احمدضا جلالی; born 15 September 1971) is an Iranian-Swedish disastermedicine doctor, lecturer, and researcher. He has worked in several universities...
The San Juanico disaster involved a series of fires and explosions at a liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) tank farm in the settlement of San Juan Ixhuatepec...
The Chernobyl disaster began on 26 April 1986 with the explosion of the No. 4 reactor of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant near the city of Pripyat in...
L. Koenig; Carl H. Schultz (18 April 2016). Koenig and Schultz's DisasterMedicine: Comprehensive Principles and Practices. Cambridge University Press...
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