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Implementation of the Medical Response to Major Incidents Course in Madeira, Portugal

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dc.contributor.authorVale, Luis Manuel Ramada Pereira
dc.contributor.authorFaria, Rui Nuno
dc.contributor.authorFreitas, Dinarte João
dc.date.accessioned2021-01-31T19:03:45Z
dc.date.available2021-01-31T19:03:45Z
dc.date.issued2020-12-29
dc.description.abstractBackground. The Medical Response to Major Incidents (MRMI) course was created in response to the need to train people from multi-agencies on major incidents management. In Madeira, a group of physicians and nurses from SESARAM attended this course and “Madeira International Disaster Training Center” (MIDTC) was created with the objective of providing training in the areas of emergency, trauma and catastrophe. Since its implementation, the MRMI course has been offered in Portugal twice a year in Madeira, Mainland Portugal and Azores. Objectives. To describe the method of implementation and functioning of the MRMI course and, additionally, to study the degree of satisfaction of the trainees. Material and methods. A quantitative study was performed during our last courses, using a satisfaction scale with the simulated clinical experience composed of 17 items with a Likert-type scale, punctuated from one (lowest level of satisfaction) to ten (highest level of satisfaction), in terms of practical, cognitive and realism dimensions. Data analysis was performed using the SPSS Statistic software, v. 25. A p-value of < 0.05 was used as the significance threshold. Results. Twenty-one Portuguese MRMI courses were attended by 1,556 trainees from different professional areas (physicians, nurses, emergency and security technicians, social workers, command and control professionals). One hundred sixty-three surveys submitted by the trainees were available for analysis. A total of 60.7% of the respondents were men aged 30–49 years (71.8%). The overall satisfaction average score was 9.06. The practical dimension attained the highest score (9.12), followed by realism (9.05) and finally the cognitive aspect (8.90). Non-medical trainees’ scores were slightly lower when compared to the scores provided by the medical trainees. Conclusions. Demand for the MRMI course in Portugal has been high, with the number of students increasing since its first implementation. This makes the MRMI course a practical doctrine to implement in Portugal by the national authorities.pt_PT
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dc.identifier.citationVale LMRP, Rui Faria N, Freitas DJ, et al. Implementation of the Medical Response to Major Incidents Course in Madeira, Portugal. Clin Edu Med Sim. 2020;3(1):15–22.pt_PT
dc.identifier.doi10.17219/cems/131658pt_PT
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.26/35060
dc.language.isoengpt_PT
dc.publisherWroclaw Medical Universitypt_PT
dc.relation.publisherversionhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/pt_PT
dc.subjectsimulationpt_PT
dc.subjectmajor incidentpt_PT
dc.subjectdisaster medicinept_PT
dc.subjectmedical responsept_PT
dc.subjectmass casualitypt_PT
dc.subjectMRMI coursept_PT
dc.subjectMadeira Islandpt_PT
dc.subjectPortugalpt_PT
dc.subjectRegião Autónoma da Madeirapt_PT
dc.titleImplementation of the Medical Response to Major Incidents Course in Madeira, Portugalpt_PT
dc.typejournal article
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oaire.citation.endPage22pt_PT
oaire.citation.issue1pt_PT
oaire.citation.startPage15pt_PT
oaire.citation.volume3pt_PT
rcaap.rightsopenAccesspt_PT
rcaap.typearticlept_PT

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