Specialist Certificate in Disaster and Terror Medicine (SC-DTM) // Attributes, outcomes and skills

Intended learning outcomes

Following successful completion of this course, graduates will be able to:

• Recognise and apply disaster and terror medicine principles, considering the various health systems and challenges in managing disaster incidents and countering terrorism
• Analyse the factors that underpin level of organisational response and the principles that are applied to prevent, manage, contain and diffuse the impact of disasters in clinical settings
• Devise methods to address the complex physical and psychological factors involved in after care and recovery post event
• Develop creative and flexible problem‐solving and communication skills for unique crisis situations, in a range of environmental, geographic and often dangerous settings
• Evaluate the clinical and health service design and implementation processes for prevention, planning, responding and managing disaster and terror events
• Critically assess the clinical and health service risk and impact of disaster and terror events.

Generic skills

• The capacity for information seeking, retrieval and evaluation
• Critical thinking and analytical skills
• An openness to new ideas
• The ability to communicate scientific knowledge through oral, written and web-based media
• The ability to apply knowledge and implement health programs for different types of disasters during all the phases of the disaster management cycle.

Graduate attributes