The Procurement component of LiveProcess was recently updated to incorporate requested changes from NCTTRAC and individual hospitals. Please attend an upcoming training session to ensure that you are familiar with all the newly redesigned features. Sessions scheduled September 7th - 10th.

The American medical community is challenged with the threat and actual occurrence of major mass casualty disasters. These events require an entirely different approach to medical care, including different strategies and tactics in caring for large numbers of severely injured victims, compared with the routine practice of emergency care. The Disaster Management Emergency Preparedness Course was developed by the Committee on Trauma of the American College of Surgeons as an educational tool targeted at those acute care hospital providers (surgeons, anesthesiologists, emergency medicine physicians, ER, OR, ICU and Trauma nurses and prehospital professionals) who will be the most likely first receivers of casualties following major disasters. This course is offered on two dates September 29 and September 30.

Click here for September 29 course information.  Click here for September 30 course information.

Texas Health Research & Education Institute presents an Update on Tactical Medicine Concepts and Controversies on Thursday, October 14, 2010 at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas. This conference will address new and innovative interventions, products and techniques that allow for a more stable and viable patient upon arrival at the tertiary facility and improved long-term outcome. Originally designed for the military, these concepts are being rapidly adopted within the civilian medical and law enforcement communities responding to terror incidents at home. This conference is relevant to law enforcement and medical first responders, physicians, nurses and other care providers who have a need for familiarity with current medical care techniques in the tactical environment. Please see the brochure for more information and for an early enrollment discount!

The Parkland Trauma Program is hosting two offerings of the Society of Trauma Nurses Advanced Trauma Course for Nurses. This is a two day course designed to prepare you to evaluate and manage the acute trauma patient. The course’s primary focus is critical thinking skills for resuscitation, diagnostics and priority setting for the acute trauma patient. Requirements are a completed registration, pre-test, attendance at both days of the course, successful completion of the case scenario and a minimum score of 80 on the written exam. CEUs are provided by STN. The two course opportunities are on November 1 - 2 and December 13 – 14, with class scheduled from 0730 to 1800 on both days. Please see the attached brochure for more information and contact information.

Join us on  November 20 in Austin for the North Central Texas Trauma Regional Advisory Council's EMS Medical Director's course.

The course is designed to educate the EMS Medical Directors and EMS Administrators on the scope of issues and implications that go into the decision-making in medical oversight of EMS systems.  The training course provides an overview and the tools needed to assist EMS Medical Directors in assuming leadership roles as patient advocates in the EMS system.

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Minority Health: This site currently offers three accredited continuing education programs; A Physician's Practical Guide to Culturally Competent Care (CCCM), Culturally Competent Nursing Care: A Cornerstone of Caring (CCNM), and Cultural Competency Curriculum for Disaster Preparedness and Crisis Response (CCC-DPCR).