Training Package for Emergency Medical Teams Deployed to Disaster Stricken Areas: Has ‘TEAMS’ Achieved its Goals?

Bodas, Moran; Peleg, Kobi; Adini, Bruria; Ragazzoni, Luca

doi:10.1017/dmp.2020.359

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“…The data from the project indicates that participants improved their perception of self-efficacy and team work following the training, suggesting that the training has a positive effect over those perceptual constructs among participants. These findings are aligned with the previous TEAMS pilot ( 15 ) and additional studies which indicated that high fidelity simulation based training programs contribute to enhancement of teamwork ( 20 , 21 ), self-efficacy ( 22 ), and leadership competencies of medical teams ( 23 ). As these components are related to the effective performance of teams throughout deployment in disaster settings, it is expected that the training package will improve the operational preparedness of EMTs.…”

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confidence: 87%

“…The Training for Emergency Medical Teams and European Medical Corps (TEAMS) project is one such training program focused on operational team training for EMCs/EMTs established with the goal of enhancing the efficient provision of field team work. The projects’ objective was to develop, pilot and assess a standardized, validated and cost-effective training package which was adaptable to different types of EMCs/EMTs, and was sustainable within low income countries and resource poor settings ( 15 ). The project successfully demonstrated preliminary data from two pilot training programs in Germany and Turkey in 2018, which demonstrated the effective development of a high- quality training package comprising of a set of 8 innovative blended-learning teaching materials and simulation-based exercises (see Table 1 ).…”

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Enhancing disaster response of emergency medical teams through “TEAMS 3.0” training package—Does the multidisciplinary intervention make a difference?

Kaim

Bodas

Camacho

et al. 2023

Front. Public Health

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BackgroundIn the aftermath of disasters, Emergency Medical Teams (EMTs) are dispatched to help local rescue efforts. Although EMTs are recognized to be a critical component of the global health workforce, concerns have emerged over their functioning and effectiveness. For example, lack of cooperation and coordination between different EMTs has been a longstanding issue, resulting in fragmented disaster management.MethodsTo enhance the provision of EMT’s field teamwork, the Training for Emergency Medical Teams and European Medical Corps (TEAMS) project was established, and later further updated with novel scenarios and exercises (i.e., adapting EMT operations to a sudden disaster; becoming a modular team; reflecting on ethical dilemmas) in the complementary “TEAMS 3.0” project where a more comprehensive training package was developed. The aim of this study was to assess the effectiveness and quality of the TEAMS 3.0 training package in four training programs in Portugal, Germany, Norway, and Turkey. Participants completed a set of questionnaires designed to assess self-efficacy, teamwork, and quality of training.ResultsThe results from all the trainings suggest an improvement for both teams’ self-efficacy and teamwork. The mean score among all the participants (N = 100) for both the self-efficacy scale and teamwork scale was 3.217 (±0.223) prior to training and 3.484 (±0.217) following the training, and 2.512 (±1.313) prior to training and 3.281 (±0.864), respectfully, with statistically significant differences according to Wilcoxon paired samples test (p < 0.05). The quality of training is regarded as high and deemed as an appropriate tool package for addressing the objectives of the project and the perceived needs of EMT disaster deployment.ConclusionThus far, the TEAMS 3.0 project has demonstrated to be effective in promoting EMT teamwork capacities.

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Enhancing disaster response of emergency medical teams through “TEAMS 3.0” training package—Does the multidisciplinary intervention make a difference?

Kaim

Bodas

Camacho

et al. 2023

Front. Public Health

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“…Multiple post-event evaluations have consistently identified the need to improve disaster education for deployed medical response teams. 7,[9][10][11][12][13][14] Just-in-time training (JITT) has been documented in medical education as an efficient and valuable tool to disseminate new concepts in timely manner and has been argued to be important for the training of medical response teams. 15,16 Children represent approximately 30% of the world's population but may be disproportionately impacted by disasters, 17 as demonstrated in the Ukrainian refugee crisis which has displaced millions of children.…”

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Disaster Medicine Education for Israeli Medical Response Teams to the Ukrainian Refugee Crisis

Cahan

Meirson

Kolitz

et al. 2023

Prehosp. Disaster med.

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Introduction: Disaster Medicine (DM) requires skills, knowledge, and prior experience that are rarely put to test by health care providers. Pediatric DM presents unique challenges in terms of both knowledge and practice. Methods: An anonymous survey consisting of demographic and five-point Likert scale questions was administered to physicians, nurses, and other medical personnel from Israel’s major medical emergency teams who were deployed to respond to the refugee crisis in Ukraine. This included teams from the Hadassah and Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Centers and the Israel Ministry of Health. Results: Of the 171 members of the medical teams deployed on the Ukraine border, a total of 105 responses were obtained (61.4%) from 61 physicians, 50 nurses, and 12 other health care providers. The teams were composed of pediatricians (31.6%), internal medicine physicians (21.6%), Emergency Medicine and intensive care physicians (18.0%), and 31.0% other specialties. For 60% of the participants, this was their first deployment, and 78% had received no training in DM. Members rated the need for DM training at 4/5 (IQR 3-5). Forty-nine (49) members (46.6%) were not briefed on situational awareness and 97 members (89.5%) were not trained in the recognition of acute stress reactions. The responders also rated their concerns about providing medical aid to children at 2/5 (IQR 1-3). A medical clown was part of the teams 42.8% of the time; the presence of clowns was rated at a median of 4/5 (IQR 4-5). The team members underscored the need for more targeted training in DM at 5/5 (IQR 3-5). Conclusion: The findings highlight the need for the formulation of a disaster education model that includes pediatric DM.

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“…The tool validated by Bodas et al 13 was used to measure 2 constructs, namely self-efficacy and teamwork.…”

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Team Dynamics and Nontechnical Skills Perception During the Disaster Response in Mozambique in 2019: A Survey Study Among the Italian Emergency Medical Team

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Raviolo²,

Hubloue

et al. 2023

Disaster med. public health prep.

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Objective: Team dynamics and nontechnical skills in general are crucial for emergency medical teams (EMT). No study has ever examined these important issues during a real mission in the field. This study aimed to better investigate team dynamics and nontechnical skills for EMTs; it tried to understand if a real mission, when the people are obliged to work together for the first time, without a prior specific training focused on teamwork, is enough or not to work as an effective team in the field. Methods: The study is designed as a pre-test/post-test survey study, and it collected data from 51 people deployed to Mozambique in 2019. Three indexes (the self-efficacy (SE), the teamwork (TW), and the overall team’s performance (TW12)) were calculated as the average value of the rating given by all the participants. Open text feedback was also collected. Results: A positive trend was observed comparing the “post” data to the “pre” data, but results did not show a statistical significance, with the only exception of stratified analyses showing a P-value less than 0.05 for SE and TW12 for some categories. Conclusions: According to the study findings, humanitarian workers feel good but not at their best; training programs focused on team dynamics can be really useful to improve self-confidence of people leaving for a mission.

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Training Package for Emergency Medical Teams Deployed to Disaster Stricken Areas: Has ‘TEAMS’ Achieved its Goals?

Cited by 11 publications

References 12 publications

Enhancing disaster response of emergency medical teams through “TEAMS 3.0” training package—Does the multidisciplinary intervention make a difference?

Enhancing disaster response of emergency medical teams through “TEAMS 3.0” training package—Does the multidisciplinary intervention make a difference?

Disaster Medicine Education for Israeli Medical Response Teams to the Ukrainian Refugee Crisis

Team Dynamics and Nontechnical Skills Perception During the Disaster Response in Mozambique in 2019: A Survey Study Among the Italian Emergency Medical Team

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