Online Courses

CREST offers the following online courses/links which can be taken at your convenience. For a detailed description of each type of course, click on the appropriate course on the left hand menu under online courses

Answering the Call (ATC-Online)

Answering the Call (ATC-Online) is offered as an online version of the face-to-face course.The ATC online courses are a video-taping of an instructor presenting the course and features the slides alongside a head-shot of the speaker.

NIMS IS-100, 700, 200, 800B and 808 Courses from FEMA

The Incident Command Systems courses are offered via a web link to the FEMA online courses. These courses are required for NIMS compliance.

EM 103 NIMS: Introduction to Emergency Management with NIMS

'Introduction to Emergency Management with NIMS (EM 103 w/NIMS)' provides awareness-level emergency preparedness training for the health care delivery workforce.

 

EM 140 NIMS: Incident Command Systems (ICS) for Health Care with NIMS

This course offers an introduction to ICS for health care workers.

 

EM 201: Bioterrorism Preparedness for Clinicians

'Bioterrorism Preparedness for Clinicians (EM 201)' is designed to prepare physicians and other clinicians for a bioterrorist event or other potential public health emergency.'


The Most Difficult Healthcare Decisions

'Resource Allocations in Crises' by Ken Iserson, MD is composed of three sections, 'Resource Allocation Ethics,' 'How to Ration Scarce Resources,' and 'Who Allocates Scarce Resources.'

PC Requirements for viewing:

  1. Windows 98SE or higher.

  2. Broadband Internet access of at least 300 Kbps.

  3. Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 or higher with factory default security settings. (i.e., Java Script and Session Cookies enabled) Download

  4. Microsoft Media Player 9 or higher. Download

  5. Sound with speakers or headphones.

  6. Screen resolution (size) at least 800X600.


 The website’s delivery platform is highly interactive:

 

  •  Interactive questions, answers, and remediation

  •  track course completion by student

  •  on-demand reports

  •  automatic book-marking

  •  capture and retain student transcripts

  •  deliver email certificates of completion or CME/contact hours to the student

 

The online courses include these unique features:

 

  • video-based, interactive Q & A

  • relevant, highest quality video. For example, exclusive video of the cesium-137 incident in Goiania, Brazil.

  • deliver one hour of training in 15 minutes so a worker can complete 4 hours of training in just one hour

  • accredited (2 Category 1 CME’s and 1-2 nursing contact hours)

  • competency-based learning design

  • fully re-mediated

  • advanced instructional design methods – dual coding, graphic design, interview and sound techniques

  • seamless course updates by Medfilms Online

  • broad line of Disaster Preparedness awareness level training courses: “Influenza” to “Level C PPE”

  • access to Disaster Preparedness, Infection Control, and Safety and Compliance courses

  • access to new courses, i.e., “Disaster Preparedness” and “Standard and Transmission-based Precautions”