Core Activities

The fellowship utilizes:

  • Self-directed learning
  • Focused didactics
  • Medical simulation
  • Experiential learning

Sample Educational and Learning Opportunities and Activities

Meetings, Workshops and Conferences

  • Rhode Island Hospital emergency preparedness committee meetings
  • Emergency Medical Services base hospital director meetings
  • Rhode Island Department of Health training, meetings, and conferences
  • Disaster Medical Assistance Team (RI-1 DMAT) meetings
  • Rhode Island Medical Reserve Core “MRC” meetings
  • Emergency department personal protective equipment and decontamination training
  • Annual statewide disaster exercise
  • Annual local and regional emergency medicine conferences
  • National Disaster Life Support conferences and trainings
  • American College of Emergency Physicians Scientific Assembly
  • Medical library workshops, e.g., Refworks, Pubmed
  • Weekly emergency medicine grand rounds
  • Monthly journal club
  • Annual New England Disaster Medicine Society Meeting
  • Annual Brown CBRNE Conference
  • Annual Brown Disaster Simulation Training Program

Teaching Opportunities

  • Teaching medical students
  • Triage
  • Mass Casualty Management
  • Pandemic Preparedness Bioterrorism
  • Paramedic teaching