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• Introduction

Population Monitoring Training for Radiation Response Volunteer Corp (RRVC)

Target Audience

Course Objectives

Course Dates

Continuing Education

Course Agenda

Course Registration

Target Audience

This free training is provided and sponsored by the Florida Medical Reserve Corps (MRC) and the Florida Department of Health, Bureau of Radiation Control (BRC). The training is for personnel who can assist with population monitoring after a radiological incident/event, such as a severe transportation accident, a nuclear power plant accident, or the detonation of a radiological dispersal device or an improvised nuclear device. Such personnel may include:

• Medical Reserve Corps members.
• Medical professionals (physicians, physician assistants, EMTs/paramedics, nurse practitioners, nurses, etc.).
• Radiation response professionals (medical physicists, health physicists, nuclear medicine technologists, radiation therapists, and radiologic technologists).

Course Objectives

At the conclusion of the training, the participant will:

• Be familiar with the role of the Medical Reserve Corps (MRC) in a disaster.
• Understand the role of population monitoring and the Radiation Response Volunteer Corps (RRVC) in a radiological disaster.
• Know the steps to establish and operate a population monitoring center within the framework of the MRC.
• Learn about radiation, radiation protection, detection, contamination, and removal.
• Be provided with additional resources to assist with responding to a radiological event.
• Integrate, at the local level, the skills and abilities of both MRC volunteers and the RRVC volunteers.

Course Dates

Classes will take place on the dates shown at the following locations:

• June 8 - Palm Beach County

Continuing Education Approval

This course has been approved for 7 hours of continuing/contact education for Florida-licensed radiologic technologists and environmental health professionals. Seven hours of Nursing continuing education approval is also provided without cost by the Florida Department of Health, Office of Public Health Nursing, Provider #50-712 (Provider #50-712 Automatically Reports to CE Broker). Florida EMTs and paramedics may obtain continuing education credit for the course via their alternative pathway, with the signature of their medical director on the course certificate.

Course Agenda

Time	Topic	Presenter
8:00 – 8:30 am	Welcome and Introductions & Medical Reserve Corps (MRC) Overview	MRC Coordinator
8:30 – 9:00 am	Rationale for Radiological Incident Preparation & Bureau of Radiation Control (BRC) Overview	BRC Staff
9:00 – 10:00 am	Radiation Fundamentals	BRC Staff
10:00 – 11:00 am	Instrumentation	BRC Staff
11:00 am – 12:00 pm	Response Overview & Population Monitoring	BRC Staff
12:00 – 1:00 pm	Lunch
1:00 – 3:30 pm	Proficiency Stations & Population Monitoring Drill	All Participants
3:30 – 4:00 pm	Assessment	All Participants
4:00 – 4:30 pm	Review and Wrap Up	BRC Staff
	NOTE: 1 – 2 breaks (am and pm)

Course Registration

To register, please complete the following and then click "Submit" at the bottom of the page.

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However, please NOTE: Under Florida law, email addresses are public records. If you do not want your email address released in response to a public records request, do not send electronic mail to this entity. Instead, we will contact you by phone or in writing (F.S. 668.6076).


Please select your FIRST choice for a class (choose the closest location):
June 8 - Palm Beach County

Please select your SECOND choice for a class (choose the closest location):
June 8 - Palm Beach County



If you do not receive an email confirmation within two business days of your request, or if you need to cancel your attendance, please contact us at (850) 245-4266 or at RadiationTraining@doh.state.fl.us