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Specialization Course: Intervention in Context of Emergency and Disaster- 2nd Edition

Branch 1: UC Diploma

BRANCH 2 - DOUBLE CERTIFICATION: by the UC (Diploma) and by the CHUC Training Service, an entity accredited in the area of ​​training by the Ministry of Health–ACSS, IP, in the Advanced Life Support (ALS) and Trauma Teams courses and by the INEM in SAV.

Credits
24 ECTS
Duration
122 horas
Vacancies
30
Regime/Location
Blended learning
(Polo I and Polo III of the University of Coimbra)
Language(s) of instruction
Português
Funding
Plano de Recuperação e Resiliência

Presentation

The increase in the frequency and intensity of risk scenarios and natural catastrophes determines the need for investment in specialization for risk management, which empowers actors to act in emergency and disaster (EC) contexts.

The Course is made up of a Common Core and two Specialization Branches:

Branch 1: Territorial Risks

Branch 2: Health Response

and is structured into 8 curricular units (7 mandatory and 1 optional), taught in person or online, synchronously, and is taught on Fridays and Saturdays.

COMMON TRUNK

Course Unit Type Contact Hours Frequency

Pre-hospital organization of emergency and type of disaster

 Mandatory 15h In-person / Online
Organization and extra-hospital response in emergency/disaster scenarios Mandatory 8h In-person / Online
Final Test Mandatory 12h In-person

BRANCH 1 | TERRITORIAL RISKS

Couse

Unit Type

 Contact Hours Frequency
Risk and vulnerability analysis Mandatory 2h In-person / online
Climate and risks Mandatory 12h In-person / online

Geographic Information Systems and Cartography in Risk and Disaster scenarios

 Mandatory 2h In-person
Basic life support and automatic external defibrillation Mandatory 8h In-person

Legal aspects in the context of emergency and disaster

 Optional* 12h In-person / online

Support for emotional management in emergency and disaster scenarios

 Optional* 12h In-person / online

Ethics and communication in crisis and disaster scenarios

 Optional* 10h In-person / online

Branch 1 contact hours: 95h

* Choose only 1 UC

BRANCH 2 | HEALTH RESPONSE

Course Unit Type Contact Hours Frequency

Support for emotional management in emergency and disaster scenarios

 Mandatory 12h In-person/online
Clinical scenarios in disasters and Catastrophe I Mandatory 4h In-person
Clinical scenarios in disasters and Catastrophe II Mandatory 24h In-person
Hospital organization and response in disaster/catastrophe scenarios Mandatory 3h In-person/online
Legal aspects in the context of emergency and disaster Optional * 10h In-person/online
Ethics and communication in crisis and disaster scenarios Optional * 10h In-person/online

Branch 2 contact hours: 122h

* Choose only 1 UC

Location of teaching Modules I and II:

Pole I - Student Hub

Dates for the 2nd edition to be announced soon.

 

 

Objectives

The increased frequency and intensity of risk scenarios and natural catastrophes, determine the importance of investing in a specialization for risk management, which enables the actors to act in emergency and disaster (EC) contexts.

Objectives: Identify priorities for intervention in situations of risk; Knowing the chain of qualified actors to operate in scenarios of EC;

Training of competencies in the initial assessment and resuscitation of the patient victim of trauma, drowning, poisoning, or burns;

Perform techniques of BLS and ALS to be applied in context EC;

Knowing how to use specific equipment in situations of trauma and emergency;

Identify risk/emergencies caused by external and internal geodynamics agents, technological risks and terrorist threats;

Acquire basic skills to understand the emotional context arising from scenarios of CE;

Promote critical reflection on safety procedures and care provided in situations of urgency and emergency.

Skills to develop

Acquire knowledge about the organization of the command chain at the level of pre-hospital rescue;

know how to apply techniques of BLS and ALS;

Develop positive behaviours and the ability to identify priorities for intervention in EC scenarios;

Identify risk factors generated by internal and external geodynamic agents, and anthropic actions;

Acquire basic notions of climate and risks.

Access conditions

Branch 1 - Territorial Risks: Have a degree in one of the following areas: Geography, Earth Sciences, Journalism, Psychology, Law, Engineering; or have a degree in a health-related course; or have a degree and be a member of the Armed Forces.

Branch 2 - Response in health: Hold an Integrated Master's Degree in Medicine or a bachelor’s degree in Nursing.

Numerus clausus: 1st Phase: 30 vacancies distributed across the following branches:

15 vacancies - Territorial Risks Branch

15 vacancies - Health Response Branch

*Note: up to a maximum of 6 places reserved for the IUM/UEFISM partner.

Vacancies distributed as follows: - 2 vacancies - Territorial Risks Branch - 4 vacancies - Health Response Branch.

If these vacancies are not filled, they revert to the general contingent.

2. Minimum number of students for the course to operate: 5 students in each branch.

COURSE PRICE TO BE BEARED BY THE TRAINEE: €1,000

(The price of the course is €2,000 and will have support of 50% from the PRR - Living the Future Academy Project - in the form of a scholarship, in line with the type of scholarships provided for in the Regulation for the Attribution of Incentives for the Training of Young People and Adults within the scope of the Living the Future Academy Project).

In properly registered cases, the incentive may exceed 50%.

 

Under Regulation No 1126/2022 for the Attribution of Incentives for the Training of Young People and Adults, published in the DR of November 21, 2022:
  • Any financial benefits that may be granted under the PRR are conditional on candidates holding a Portuguese NIF and residing in Portugal, at the time of the course;
  • Trainees who wish to repeat training for which they have not been approved and for which they have already benefited from a scholarship are not eligible for a scholarship;
  • Trainees who register in a course or initiative financed by PRR-LFA (Investments RE-C06.i03.03 – Adult Incentive and RE-C06.i04.01 – Impulso Jovens STEAM, opened by Notice 01/PRR/2021), accept that they were aware of the total/partial discount on the price defined for the course, initiative and/or attendance expenses and authorize that it be granted if its attribution is decided under the regulations in force.

Methodology (organization and functioning of the course)

This training action will be organized in the form of a training course, with theoretical sessions, conference mode, complemented with practical application.
The theoretical component is organized in plenary conferences followed by debate.
The theoretical-practical component is organized in field work, with visits and interactions with training resources (documents) that can be used in a school context.

Predominant scientific area

Proteção de pessoas e bens

Languages of learning/evaluation

Português

Study plan

1 Pre-hospital organization of emergency systems and typology of disasters

1 - Recognize emotional reactions associated with acute stress contexts,

2 - Know models and essential intervention techniques associated with crisis intervention models,

3 - Know assessment and emotional management models and techniques associated with intervention models in traumatic situations.

2 Emotional management support in emergency and disaster scenarios

1 - Recognize emotional reactions associated with acute stress contexts;

2 - Know models and essential intervention techniques associated with crisis intervention models;

3 - Know assessment and emotional management models and techniques associated with intervention models in traumatic situations.

3 Legal aspects in the context of emergency and disaster

1 - Understand the legal framework of national and community action in emergency and disaster scenarios;

2 - Knowing the context of the action of the national and European mechanism for civil protection,

3 - Identify conditions necessary for the categorization of state of siege and state of emergency;

4 - Knowing the main misdemeanour regulations applicable in scenarios of calamity, contingency, and alert,

5 - Recognize the fundamental role of humanitarian forensic action

6 - Knowing fundamental procedures in the field of collection, handling, and identification of casualties;

  7 - Knowing fundamental procedures for the examination of the survivors.

4 Clinical Scenarios in Disaster and Catastrophe I

1. Know how to assess and treat trauma victims, drowning, poisoning, or burns.

2. Know how to work in multidisciplinary teams in the patients' approach with severe trauma.

5 Clinical Scenarios in Disaster and Catastrophe II

1. Know how to act in the context of cardiac arrest using the ALS algorithm.

2. Know how to act in emergency and catastrophic clinical scenario.

6 Climate and Risks

1 - Understand the concept of climate risk and list several of these types in their hazard and vulnerability components.

2 - To frame the risk-producing climate system in the context of climate change.

3 - Understand the social impacts of these risks and the mitigation and adaptation measures that can be adopted to avoid them.

7 Ethics and communication in crisis and disaster scenarios

1. Provide trainees with the means and instruments that provide critical analysis of the media and the media space;

2. Understand the specificities of the news media in the current communicational contexts;

3. Discuss the ethical imperatives and conflicts of interest in the context of immediate communication

8 Out-of-hospital organization and response in emergency/disaster scenarios

1 - Knowing the command control and coordination lines in the context of extra-hospital response in emergency and disaster scenarios;

2 - Knowing the actors and rescue structures that intervene in the context of emergency and disaster scenarios.

9 Hospital organization and response in disaster/catastrophe scenarios

1. - Know how to organize the hospital response in scenarios of Emergency / Disaster in its various fields - Clinical, Epidemiological,Triage, Treatment, Evacuation and Transport, Communications, and Logistics;

           2. - Know how to plan/organize the hospital response in exceptional situations, including non-conventional scenarios

10 Pre-hospital organization of emergency systems and typology of disasters

1 - Recognize emotional reactions associated with acute stress contexts,

2 - Know models and essential intervention techniques associated with crisis intervention models,

3 - Know assessment and emotional management models and techniques associated with intervention models in traumatic situations.

11 Geographic Information Systems and cartography in risk and disaster scenarios

1.    Be able to build modeling processes using the tools available in most GIS;

2.    Master the methods and principles of quantification of the phenomena represented in the analysis models

3.    Be able to critically analyze the intermediate and final results produced by the modeling process

4.    Demonstrate competence to produce information documents adjusted to different audiences.

12 Basic Life Support (BLS) and External Automatic Defibrillation

1. Know how to identify the patient in cardiac arrest.

2. Know how to perform the basic life support resuscitation maneuvers.

3. Know how to use an AED safely.

13 Final Proof

1. Know how to act in a disaster context integrating the chain of command and the organization of the response extra-hospital and intra-hospital.

2. Know how to work in this context in a multidisciplinary team.

Promoters

Education Institutes

University of Coimbra

Organic unit(s)

Faculdade de Letras
Faculty of Medicine
Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences
Faculty of Law

Entidade(s) subsidiária(s)

Unidade de Ensino, Formação e Investigação da Saúde Militar - UEFISM
Associação Lusitana de Trauma e Emergência Cirúrgica - ALTEC
Instituto Universitário Militar - IUM

Parceiros

Living the Future Academy Project

Sponsors

Investment RE-C06-i03 - Adult Incentive and Investment RE-C06-i04 - Young STEAM Boost within the scope of the Living the Future Academy Project supported by the PRR - Recovery and Resilience Plan and the Next Generation EU European Funds.