RESCHEDULED FROM SEPTEMBER 20 DUE TO IKE:

NTSPP AND THE DALLAS COUNTY MEDICAL RESERVE CORPS (DCMRC) OFFER

SPECIAL DISASTER TRAINING AND DCMRC CERTIFICATION FOR PSYCHIATRISTS

The North Texas Society of Psychiatric Physicians (NTSPP) is organizing a special half-day disaster training program for psychiatrists (including psychiatry residents and fellows), in partnership with the Dallas County Medical Reserve Corps (DCMRC), on the morning of Saturday, Nov. 1 from 8:45 am to 1:00 pm, at the Dallas County Health Department, 6^th floor, room 627 (2377 N. Stemmons Freeway, Dallas TX 75207). The training program will be led by Carol North, MD (local, national, and international disaster expert who is a member of NTSPP Executive Council and serves as Mental Health Liaison for DCMRC), Frank Webster, MD (UT Southwestern psychiatrist and organizer of services for the 2008 Hurricanes), Ira Nemeth, MD (DCMRC Medical Director), and Jess Wade (DCMRC Emergency Volunteer Program Coordinator). The program will provide special disaster training for psychiatrists and will conduct recruitment and credentialing of psychiatrist volunteers willing to register in Dallas County. We hope you can attend. (Psychiatrists are welcome to attend the training even if they do not want to be a DCMRC volunteer. CME credits are not being offered.)

To be credentialed as a disaster responder volunteer for Dallas County at this meeting, you must:

    1) Attend this meeting (at which your photo will be taken and a badge prepared to be given to you at the completion of your credentialing) and read the Volunteer Handbook provided at this meeting

    2) Register as a DCMRC volunteer (you can fill out an application online at www.metroplexvolunteers.com)

    3) Complete on-line training as required by the US Department of Homeland Security (IS-100 and IS-700), and forward evidence of your certification to the MRC (instructions below)

    4) Return a confidentiality agreement package and pass a related credentials check (see confidentiality agreement document for completion attached to this message)

If you would like to attend this training meeting, please RSVP to
Jess Wade (numbers/addresses provided at the bottom of this document). Thank you for considering participation in this training and joining the ranks of DCMRC volunteers as a Disaster Psychiatrist. The effort you invest in this endeavor will help you, the DCMRC, and NTSPP be better prepared to respond to disaster.

Directions to complete the on-line training are as follows:

On-line courses can be conveniently completed at your own computer. Just click on the link below to access it (or if that does not work, copy it into the address window of your browser):

http://training.fema.gov/IS/NIMS.asp

Select the second IS100 course: “Introduction to Incident Command System for Healthcare/ Hospitals.” Follow the instructions closely to avoid time-consuming missteps.

IS100 is presented in 5 lessons plus the test (~2.5 hrs – but most psychiatrists can do it a lot faster!)

IS700 is presented in 8 lessons plus the test (~3 hrs – but most psychiatrists can do it a lot faster!)

Please send a copy of your Certificate of Completion and also your Confidentiality Agreement to Jess Wade at Dallas County MRC:

Email: jdwade@dallascounty.org

Fax: 2148192099, ATTN: Jess Wade

Mail: Dallas County Dept. of Health & Human Services, 2377 N. Stemmons Freeway, Suite 500, Dallas, TX 75207

Phone: 2148191922

TO RSVP FOR THE NOVEMBER 1 TRAINING, PLEASE SEND YOUR NAME AND CONTACT INFORMATION including both e-mail address and phone numbers TO JESS WADE (ABOVE). Program changes (if any) will be sent to you by Mr. Wade and posted on the www.ntspp.org website.

Due to Ike,  The Training will NOT be held Saturday September 20,  2008.  Our trainers Carol North MD, Ira Nemeth MD and Jess Wade, all of the MRC are busy with Ike as we speak.  Psychiatrists please sign up to help them via the Ike:Volunteer box above.

Please check www.ntspp.org and write us at NTSPPrsvp@gmail.com to be put on a notification list when it is rescheduled. 

    8:45 am to 1:00 pm     CME 2 (not 1)  NTSPP & The Dallas County Medical Reserve Corps Present  Special Disaster Training and DCMCR Certification for Psychiatrists To Serve Dallas County,  Training Led by Carol North MD, Ira Nemeth MD, and Jess Wade.  Psychiatrists and PGYs contact NTSPPrsvp@gmail.com for more information, including pre-meeting assignments and documentation

Date/time: Thursday June 26th at 6 pm  

Speakers: Psychiatrist Carol North MD MPE** and Medical Reserve Corps officials  

Program: Basics of Disaster Psychiatry, the Role of Psychiatrists in Disaster Intervention, and the Medical Reserve Corps  

RSVP: Please RSVP if planning to attend to NTSPPrsvp@gmail.com. Cheap to moderate food price and free location depend on number responding.  

DETAILS: Learn how you can serve as a volunteer during the next Dallas County public health emergency or mass casualty disaster. Learn WHAT YOU CAN DO NOW to get ready and be prepared to serve your community. The Dallas County Medical Reserve Corps is training volunteers and will be here to explain WHY you are needed and HOW you can get involved in this important public health preparedness program.  

The Dallas County Medical Reserve Corps (MRC) enlists medical and non-medical volunteers from the community at large. It then trains these volunteers to fill specific roles in both disaster relief shelters and in temporary clinics, or PODs (points-of-dispensing). The psychiatrist’s role in a shelter (such as following Katrina/Rita evacuations in 2005) will be to assist as part of a medical team operating

an on-site medical care unit within each shelter. In addition, MRC training will help prepare the volunteer psychiatrist for assisting with crisis intervention within the POD environment.  

For the doctor who wishes to train for a broad leadership role, the MRC offers training as POD Director, Clinic Manager, and other non-medical management job roles.  

**Carol North MD MPE is the Dallas County Health & Human Services Medical Reserve Corps (MRC) disaster mental health liaison for MRC Mental Health Units and UT Southwestern Medical Center. Dr. North holds the Nancy and Ray L. Hunt Chair in Crisis Psychiatry as well as being Director-Program in Trauma and Disaster, Dallas VAMC. She will be accompanied by MRC officials.

THE NTSPP EXECUTIVE COUNCIL

NICOLE COOPER MD President *ED NACE MD Vice-President *REGE STEWART MD Treasurer

*MADELINE HARFORD MD Editor & Web *JOHN DEBUS MD Fellowship, Nominating, Alt Chap Rep

*ALAN KOENIGSBERG MD Hospitality, Photographer PHIL KORENMAN MD Co-Editor

*DAN PEARSON III MD Chapter Rep & Ethics *LES SECREST MD Consultant *Past President

NTSPP CHAPTER: NTSPPchapter@gmail.com www.ntspp.org 8111 Preston Rd Ste 811 Dallas TX 75225.6316

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APA FAMILY: The North Texas Society of Psychiatric Physicians is the local chapter of the Texas Society of Psychiatric Physicians , the district branch of the American Psychiatric Association. TSPP: TSPPofc@aol.com www.txpsych.org APA: www.psych.org