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  • Burns
  • Crush Injuries
  • Multiple Trauma
  • Psychological Trauma

Simulation Training and Skill Assessment in Disaster Medicine

Disaster medicine focuses on preparedness, response, mitigation, and recovery during natural and human-made disasters. Common clinical challenges include polytrauma, burns, crush injuries, toxic exposures, infectious outbreaks, environmental injuries, acute exacerbations of chronic disease, and psychological trauma. Despite increasing disaster frequency, clinician preparedness remains limited because traditional education provides inadequate exposure to surge conditions, resource scarcity, ethical triage, and interprofessional crisis coordination. Simulation-based training addresses these gaps by recreating high-acuity, resource-limited scenarios in controlled environments. Structured simulations strengthen technical and nontechnical skills, including triage, procedural performance, communication, leadership, and decision-making. Standardized assessment tools, direct observation, and performance rating scales help establish competency benchmarks, identify deficiencies, and guide remediation. This activity is designed to improve clinician proficiency in disaster simulation assessment, implementation of competency-based training strategies, and effective collaboration within interprofessional disaster response teams.

Credit & MOC Details

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Credit types

AAPA Category 1 Credit™Up to 1 creditAMA PRA Category 1 Credit™Up to 1 creditNursingUp to 1 creditPharmacyUp to 1 credit

MOC types

ABS — Accredited CMEUp to 1 pointABPM — Accredited CMEUp to 1 pointABTS — Accredited CMEUp to 1 pointABS — Self-AssessmentUp to 1 pointABPM — Self-AssessmentUp to 1 pointABTS — Self-AssessmentUp to 1 point

FDA REMS

No

Qualifies for MIPS

No

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Pricing

Fee varies

This provider typically $49–98

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  • Article / monograph / reference
  • Credit · Up to 1 credit
  • MOC · Up to 1 point
  • Fee varies · this provider typically $49–98
  • Released
    Sep 1, 2026
  • Last day to claim credit
    Sep 1, 2029 3 years left

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