MGT-319 Medical Countermeasures: Point of Dispensing (POD) Planning and Response

Dates: March 12-13, 2024. Location: Franciscan Health Marion Education Center (Crown Point).

Description:

This course is a guide for local health officials and their partners to coordinate plans to provide mass distribution of medical countermeasures in response to large-scale public health incident. This course focuses on planning considerations, recommendations to achieve the Centers for Disease Control and Preventions (CDCs) 48-hour standard Mass Prophylaxis and the local community's Mass Prophylaxis and Point of Dispensing (POD) site preparedness. The course material is applicable to pandemic influenza, bio-terrorism and other public health emergencies.

Course Objectives

• Discuss the roles and responsibilities for local, state, and federal levels across a broad range of complex preparedness challenges related to medical countermeasures
• Identify the different POD models and standards for selecting POD locations
• Apply the POD command structure for initial planning, execution, and demobilization of a jurisdictional response in POD operations
• Demonstrate the essential functions of POD setup and operations
• Identify the planning and training needs to operate a POD site
• Discuss the concerns of the community jurisdictional medical countermeasures plan

Disciplines

• Emergency Management
• Emergency Medical Services
• Fire Service
• Governmental Administrative
• Law Enforcement
• Health Care
• Public Health
• Public Works
• Citizen/Community Volunteer
• Information Technology
• Security and Safety
• Education

Course Times: March 12, 2024, and March 13, 2024, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. CST

For full information and to register, search "20240312" on Acadis Portal.