The National Center for Disaster Medicine & Public Health (NCDMPH) is proud to announce a FREE, eight-hour, online Disaster Health Core Curriculum intended for a wide range of health professionals.
The course consists of eleven, 20 – 60 minute online modules covering a variety of disaster health topics such as: personal or family preparedness, communication, ethical and legal issues encountered in disasters, and much more.
This curriculum is designed to be taken in sections or as a whole to be flexible for our busy healthcare professional learner.
The foundation of this curriculum is the Core Competencies for Disaster Medicine and Public Health.
Before proceeding please read the Policy Disclosures to Learners (Click Here).
The National Center for Disaster Medicine and Public Health strives to ensure balance, independence, objectivity and scientific rigor in all of its educational programs. All planners, faculty members, moderators, discussants, and presenters participating in this program have responded they have no commercial relationships to disclose.
Medicine (CME) & Nursing (CNE) Accreditation Statement
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and Policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education through the joint sponsorship of the American Public Health Association (APHA) and the National Center for Disaster Medicine and Public Health. The APHA is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians. This continuing nursing education activity was approved by APHA/PHN, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. Designation Statement: The APHA designates this Enduring / Web Course educational activity for a maximum of 7 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit (s) ™.
How to Obtain CE Credit
NCDMPH has partnered with the American Public Health Association (APHA) to offer FREE continuing education credits for the Disaster Health Core Curriculum.
Participants must complete the online assessment with a passing score of 70% or above to earn credit hours and obtain a CE certificate. To access the post-assessments (Click Here). Please follow the instructions on the Cpd-Confex website to create a CE account ( Please note: APHA membership is NOT required to set-up an account) Once your account has been activated, you will procced to the assessments page. On the assessments page, participants may complete any of the 7 assessements ( Competencies 1 - 2 and 6 -7 are combined to receive credit ) and print individual certificates.
To access a course, click on the module title below.
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Lesson Title | Length | Author | Video Presenter |
20 | Ed Hsu, MD, MPH | Kelly Gulley, MPH | |
*Core Competency 2: One’s Expected Role(s) in Organizational and Community Response | 40 | Daniel Barnett, MD | Thomas Kirsch MD, MPH, FACEP |
20 | Ed Hsu, MD, MPH | Ed Hsu, MD, MPH | |
60 | Daniel Barnett, MD | Daniel Barnett, MD | |
40 | Ed Hsu, MD, MPH | Ed Hsu, MD, MPH | |
20 | Ed Hsu, MD, MPH | Ed Hsu, MD, MPH | |
40 | Ed Hsu, MD, MPH | Ed Hsu, MD, MPH | |
60 | Daniel Barnett, MD | Kandra Strauss-Riggs, MPH | |
40 | Matthew Wynia, MD, MPH, FACP | Thomas Kirsch MD, MPH, FACEP | |
60 | Lainie Rutkow, PhD | Lainie Rutkow, PhD | |
Core Competency 11: Short-and Long-term Considerations for Recovery | 20 | Daniel Barnett, MD | Daniel Barnett, MD |
Please email all continuing medical education credit questions to NCDMPH-CME@usuhs.edu
