Virtual Disaster Simulation: Lesson Learned from an International Collaboration That Can Be Leveraged for Disaster Education in Iran

Ali Ardalan, Joseph Kimuli Balikuddembe, INGRASSIA Pier Luigi, LUCA CARENZO, Francesco DELLA CORTE, Ali Akbarisari, Ahmadreza Djalali

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Abstract

Disaster education needs innovative educational methods to be more effective compared to traditional approaches. This can be done by using virtual simulation method. This article presents an experience about using virtual simulation methods to teach health professional on disaster medicine in Iran. The workshop on the "Application of New Technologies in Disaster Management Simulation" was held in Tehran in January 2015. It was co-organized by the Disaster and Emergency Health Academy of Tehran University of Medical Sciences and Emergency and the Research Center in Disaster Medicine and Computer Science applied to Medicine (CRIMEDIM), Università del Piemonte Orientale. Different simulators were used by the participants, who were from the health system and other relevant fields, both inside and outside Iran. As a result of the workshop, all the concerned stakeholders are called on to support this new initiative of incorporating virtual training and exercise simulation in the field of disaster medicine, so that its professionals are endowed with field-based and practical skills in Iran and elsewhere. Virtual simulation technology is recommended to be used in education of disaster management. This requires capacity building of instructors, and provision of technologies. International collaboration can facilitate this process.
Lingua originaleInglese
Titolo della pubblicazione ospitePlos Currents: Disaster
Volume7
DOI
Stato di pubblicazionePubblicato - 1 gen 2015

Keywords

  • Iran.
  • Virtual simulation
  • disaster management
  • education
  • training

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