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.

  

The Most Difficult Healthcare Decisions

 

 

 

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”

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

'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.'