Online Education & Training

The Yale New Haven Center for Emergency Preparedness and Disaster Response offers a series of online courses on emergency preparedness topics for health care workers.

The courses are available to all health care workers. At the end of each course is a brief quiz that tests your comprehension of the material and documents your completion of the course.

Yale New Haven Center for
Emergency Preparedness
and Disaster Response
1 Church Street, 5th Floor
New Haven, CT 06510
Phone: (203) 688-3224
Fax: (203) 688-4618
E-mail: Center@ynhh.org

Online Course Catalog

NIMS Courses

EM 103 NIMS: Introduction to Emergency Management w/NIMS - Meets NIMS training objectives for IS 100, IS 700 and IS 800A (CME credit available)
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EM 140 NIMS: Incident Command Systems (ICS) for Health Care w/NIMS - Meets NIMS training objectives for IS 200, IS 700 and IS 800A (CME credit available)
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Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)

EM 120: Best Practices for the Protection of Health Care Facility-Based First Receivers (Awareness Level) (CME credit available)
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EM 121: N95 Respirator and Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) Training for Health Care Workers
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EM 122: N95 Respirator Fit Tester Training
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EM 220.1: Best Practices for the Protection of Health Care Facility-Based First Receivers (Operations Level): Hazard Awareness and Risks
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EM 220.2: Best Practices for the Protection of Health Care Facility-Based First Receivers (Operations Level): Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
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EM 220.3: Best Practices for the Protection of Health Care Facility-Based First Receivers (Operations Level): The Decontamination Process
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Additional Offerings

EM 110: Introduction to Radiological Emergency Preparedness
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EM 201: Bioterrorism Preparedness for Clinicians
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EM 230: Mental Health Aspects of Emergencies and Disasters for Non-Mental Health Professionals (CME credit available)
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For information on our complete course offerings, please click here to view the complete course guide.

What's New?

CME Credits Now Available

CME credits are now available for the following courses: EM 103 NIMS, EM 140 NIMS, EM 120 and EM 230.

Summer 2008 Course Guide

Click here to view a full guide, in PDF format, to our summer educational offerings. This diverse set of online and instructor-led activities is designed to prepare the health care workforce for disasters and emergencies.

Introduction to Radiological Emergency Preparedness (EM 110)

This course for health care professionals addresses the basic principles of radiation. Featuring description of health risks associated with radioactive material, safeguards for personal safety and additional strategies for handling radiological incidents.

CD-ROMs available

Narrated CD-ROMs of our introductory course, "Introduction to Emergency Management (EM 103)," and "Introduction to Radiological Emergency Preparedness (EM 110)," are available upon request.