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Target Audience

This free training is provided and sponsored by the Florida Medical Reserve Corps (MRC) and the Florida Department of Health, Bureau of Radiation Control (BRC). The training is for personnel who can assist with population monitoring after a radiological incident/event, such as a severe transportation accident, a nuclear power plant accident, or the detonation of a radiological dispersal device or an improvised nuclear device. Such personnel may include:

• Medical Reserve Corps members.
• Medical professionals (physicians, physician assistants, EMTs/paramedics, nurse practitioners, nurses, etc.).
• Radiation response professionals (medical physicists, health physicists, nuclear medicine technologists, radiation therapists, and radiologic technologists).

Course Objectives

At the conclusion of the training, the participant will:

• Be familiar with the role of the Medical Reserve Corps (MRC) in a disaster.
• Understand the role of population monitoring and the Radiation Response Volunteer Corps (RRVC) in a radiological disaster.
• Know the steps to establish and operate a population monitoring center within the framework of the MRC.
• Learn about radiation, radiation protection, detection, contamination, and removal.
• Be provided with additional resources to assist with responding to a radiological event.
• Integrate, at the local level, the skills and abilities of both MRC volunteers and the RRVC volunteers.

Course Dates

Classes will take place on the dates shown at the following locations:

• February 11, 2012 - Winter Park, FL
• March 3, 2012 - Sarasota, FL
• March 24, 2012 - Ft. Lauderdale, FL
• March 31, 2012 - Miami, FL
• March 31, 2012 - Dade City, FL (Pasco County)
• April 21, 2012 - The Villages, FL (Sumter County)
• April 28, 2012 - Naples, FL
• April 28, 2012 - Marion County, FL
• June 16, 2012 - West Palm Beach, FL
• June 21, 2012 - Pinellas/Hillsborough County, FL

Continuing Education Approval

This course has been approved for 7 hours of continuing education for Florida-licensed radiologic technologists, and 7 hours of contact education for Florida-licensed environmental health professionals. Florida EMTs and paramedics may obtain continuing education credit for the course via their alternative pathway, with the signature of their medical director on the course certificate. Nursing continuing education hours have been applied for and may be provided by DOH Public Health Nursing with approval from the Fla. Board of Nursing.

Course Agenda