CDP to host healthcare focus group

A working group of healthcare experts will virtually convene later this month to review and validate the Center for Domestic Preparedness’ (CDP’s) Health and Medical Response Training Program.

The group will include the Director of Emergency Preparedness at MedStar Washington Hospital Center in the District of Columbia, the Director of Riverside University Health System Public Health in California, a professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the Medical College of Georgia, the California Hospital Association’s Vice President of Emergency Management, the Director of Education and Resources for the National Emerging Special Pathogens Training and Education Center, and others.

“Our goal of the review is to ensure the currency and relevancy of our healthcare training. Additionally, with the changes in healthcare since Covid, we want to make sure what we are training is what is needed by our audience,” explained Amanda Stewart, a supervisory instructional systems specialist at the CDP.

“We also have some ideas for new course development and would like those plans to be validated as well,” she added.

The CDP conducts such focus groups every few years. The last healthcare program focus group was convened in 2019.