Objectives

After participating in this educational activity, attendees should be able to:
1. Recognize the interplay between post-traumatic stress and resilience, and the need to screen for both in first responders
2. Understand how pre-, peri-, and post-event factors can amplify post-traumatic stress responses in responders and how resiliency training can help temper these effects
3. Explore how partnering with local trauma and emergency medicine communities can augment agency resources to screen first responders and provide resiliency training and critical incident debriefing

Faculty

Leah Tatebe, MD
Assistant Professor of Surgery
Rush University
Director of Clinical Research, Cook County Health

Faculty Disclosure

The design and content of Baystate Continuing Interprofessional Education ( CE ) activities support quality improvement in healthcare and provide fair and balanced views of therapeutic options.  Faculty or planner conflicts of interest are resolved before the educational activity.

None of the members of the faculty and planning committee for this educational event have commercial relationships with any entity producing, marketing, re-selling or distributing health care goods and services consumed by or used on patients.