Snapshot: Emergency Operations
Students operate a hospital emergency operations center during a simulated mass casualty incident in this week’s Healthcare Leadership for Mass Casualty Incidents Course at the Center for Domestic Preparedness.
In the Spotlight: Chad Hawkins
Chad Hawkins has been a hazardous materials instructor for the Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP) since 2017.
CDP offers online course in WebEOC basics
FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness (CDP) offers responders a wide variety of self-paced, web-based training courses which can be accessed anywhere, through a computer or mobile device.
Snapshot: Respiratory Protection Course
Students learn about types of respiratory masks and their fit testing procedures this week in the Center for Domestic Preparedness’ Respiratory Protection: Program Development and Administration Course.
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CDP Coronavirus training material now available online (Updated)
Healthcare and other responders now have a number of additional resources they can turn to, to help them identify and treat those exposed to COVID-19 as well as learn how to safely move and transport patients suspected or confirmed to be infected with the virus.
CDP teaches medical students ‘displaced’ by COVID-19
At the request of the university, FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness this week started providing crisis and disaster response training to more than 120 University of Alabama - Birmingham medical students who have been displaced from their classrooms by the COVID-19 pandemic.
CDP team exploring distant learning offerings
Like many learning institutions across the country, the Center for Domestic Preparedness has been taking a hard look at what of its advanced disaster response training material for first responders it can provide via distant learning methods.
Medical responders credit CDP for successful COVID-19 response
Two doctors who were among the first healthcare professionals to deal with the coronavirus in the United States attribute training at FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness for their team’s effective response in early March to the outbreak of the disease in their community.
Public Communication Concerns during Social Distancing
The Center for Domestic Preparedness has produced a podcast which tells public information officers and other responders how to safely and effectively communicate with their audiences while adhering to social distancing and other COVID-19 practices recommended by the CDC.
CDP releases February training numbers
FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness has released its training numbers for the month of February.
CDP welcomes ‘revamped’ Instructor Training Course
FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness this week unveiled an updated version of its popular Instructor Training Course.
CDP statement regarding training
The CDP mission to support the nationwide response to COVID-19, also known as the coronavirus, has been cancelled.
Birmingham, Jefferson County, AL officials train at Center for Domestic Preparedness
About 40 officials from Birmingham and Jefferson County, AL, participated in Incident Command training in late February at FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness.
CDP closer to training those in new special chemical operations program
FEMA’s Center for Domestic Preparedness is putting the final touches on a new course that will be part of a chemical operations support specialist program run by the agency’s Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Office.