Education & training programs

The Emergency Management Unit education and training programs include:

EmergoTrain

The EmergoTrain system was developed by the Centre for Research and Education in Disaster Medicine (KMC) at the University of Linkoping, Sweden. The system is a real-time educational tool for training and testing preparedness for major accidents and disasters, using the principle of ‘learning by doing’. It involves magnetic symbols representing patients, staff and resources, movable markers indicating priority and treatment and a large patient bank with various injuries.

A protocol has been developed to identify time taken for various clinical interventions and likely outcomes. Real-time management of the incident is a major focus of the EmergoTrain system, which is used extensively in Australia and worldwide.

Scenarios available include mechanical injuries, such as aeroplane, bus and train accidents, building collapse, explosion, terrorist attacks, riot and armed conflicts, burns, hypothermia, shipping accidents, hazardous materials, irradiation, bio-terrorism or combinations of these.

MIMMS

The Major Incident Medical Management and Support (MIMMS) course teaches a systematic and practical approach to field medical management at disasters. The approach can be applied to any major incident.

MIMMS Australia has been developed from the United Kingdom MIMMS Course and adapted to suit the needs of the Australian disaster management approach.

The emphasis is on scene management and pre-hospital care, learned through:

• structured lectures
• table-top exercises
• practical radio communication exercises
• casualty triage exercises.

The course is open to all medical practitioners, nurses, paramedics, ambulance officers, emergency managers and emergency first responders.

The course runs over three consecutive days. It is an accredited course with Advanced Life Support Group (ALSG) United Kingdom, and is widely accepted internationally. The course is competency-based and participants are tested in the practical application of the skills taught.

For further information, please contact the Emergency Management Unit:

Email: emergencymanagement@health.sa.gov.au
Telephone: (08) 8226 7115