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| - Disaster medicine is the area of physician medical specialization serving the dual areas of providing medical care to disaster survivors and providing medically related disaster preparation, disaster planning, disaster response and disaster recovery leadership throughout the disaster life cycle. Disaster Medicine specialists provide insight, guidance and expertise on the principles and practice of medicine both in the disaster impact area and healthcare evacuation receiving facilities to emergency management professionals, hospitals, healthcare facilities, communities and governments. The Disaster Medicine specialist is the liaison between and partner to the medical contingency planner, the emergency management professional, the incident command system, government and policy makers.
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| - Disaster medicine is the area of physician medical specialization serving the dual areas of providing medical care to disaster survivors and providing medically related disaster preparation, disaster planning, disaster response and disaster recovery leadership throughout the disaster life cycle. Disaster Medicine specialists provide insight, guidance and expertise on the principles and practice of medicine both in the disaster impact area and healthcare evacuation receiving facilities to emergency management professionals, hospitals, healthcare facilities, communities and governments. The Disaster Medicine specialist is the liaison between and partner to the medical contingency planner, the emergency management professional, the incident command system, government and policy makers. Internationally, Disaster Medicine specialists must demonstrate competency in areas of disaster healthcare and emergency management including but not limited to:
* Disaster behavioral health
* Disaster law
* Disaster planning
* Disaster preparation
* Disaster recovery
* Disaster response
* Disaster safety
* Medical consequences of disaster
* Medical consequences of terrorism
* Medical contingency planning
* Medical decontamination
* Medical implications of disaster
* Medical implications of terrorism
* Medical planning and preparation for disaster
* Medical planning and preparation for terrorism
* Medical recovery from disaster
* Medical recovery from terrorism
* Medical response to disaster
* Medical response to terrorism
* Medical response to weapons of mass destruction
* Medical surge, surge capacity and triage
* Psychosocial implications of disaster
* Psychosocial implications of terrorism
* Psychosocial triage Disaster Medicine is unique among the medical specialties in that unlike all other areas of specialization, the Disaster Medicine specialist does not practice the full scope of the specialty everyday. Indeed, the Disaster Medicine hopes to never practice the full scope of skills required for board certification. However, like the specialists in public health, environmental medicine and occupational medicine; Disaster Medicine specialists engage in the development and modification of public and private policy, legislation, disaster planning and disaster recovery. Within the United State of America, the specialty of Disaster Medicine fulfils the requirements set for by Homeland Security Presidential Directives (HSPD), the National Response Plan (NRP), the National Incident Management System (NIMS), the National Resource Typing System (NRTS) and the NIMS Implementation Plan for Hospitals and Healthcare Facilities.
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