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Please allow 10 minutes to complete this registration, and submit a separate registration for each participant. All information will be guarded confidentially.

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*Undergraduate, Nursing, Medical, PA, NP, Dental, Therapy, Public Health, and Pharmacy students only. PhD and other advanced degree students are not eligible for the student rate.
 

  GROUP SESSION SELECTION  

Seating is limited for the Seminar Sessions and Regional Health Group Sessions held during the conference. Please specify which sessions you would like to attend for each of the seven sessions.
 
Identically named sessions are indeed duplicates
* Denotes presentation certified for CNE and CME
+ Helping Babies Breath training requires BOTH Seminar Session 1 and 2. Participants are required to purchase the HBB instructor's newborn simulator which contains the essential tools to teach these skills to others. The cost of the HBB instructor's newborn simulator is $175, payable at the time of conference registration.
 
Friday, June 1, 2012
 
*10:10 - 12:30, Seminar Sessions #1*
    Crisis Response Training - Micah Flint, Kyle McPhee
    Faith & Humanitarian Service - James Fyffe, Rick Friessen
    Helping Babies Breathe (all day) - Cindy Obenhaus+
    Medicine Skill Stations - Nancy Crigger, Don Philgreen
    Organizational Leadership - Skylar Rolf
    Public Health & Community Development - Wendy Nyhus
 
*2:00 - 4:20, Seminar Sessions #2*
    Crisis Response Training - Micah Flint, Kyle McPhee
    Faith & Humanitarian Service - James Fyffe, Rick Friessen
    Helping Babies Breathe (all day) - Cindy Obenhaus+
    Medicine Skill Stations - Nancy Crigger, Don Philgreen
    Organizational Leadership - Skylar Rolf
    Public Health & Community Development - Wendy Nyhus
 
*4:20 - 6:15, Reception & INMED Global Health Service Awards Ceremony
    Will you be attending this event? There is no additional fee but we must know in advance to reserve your place.
 
Saturday, June 2, 2012
 
*10:10 - 10:40, Regional Health Group Sessions*
    Latin America - James Fyffe
    Southern Africa - Steve Foster
    Asia - John Gibson
    West Africa - Randy Strash/Greg Nyhus
    Urban America - John Crouch
 
To be eligible for CME or CEU credit, one must attend the entire conference. Partial credit will not be given, and the certificates will be given out at the conclusion of the conference.
 
  CONFERENCE PRETEST  
 
Please complete the following information, which is used for planning the conference and for continuing education accreditation. Each of the following questions has only one correct answer.
 
You are part of a team organized to provide crisis response assistance in Port-au-Prince in the first days following the earthquake of January, 2010. Arriving at the city's airport, a Red Cross spokesperson hastily assigns your team to the neighborhood of Burdon. About mid-day you lay eyes of the devastated neighborhood marked by leveled buildings and crowds of Haitians in a state of shock.
Question 1

* The first action that should be taken when responding to a disaster is:

    Complete a needs assessment
    Gather and organize supplies
    Organize a response team
    Send food, clothes, and medicine to the affected area
 
The local residents immediately approach you and your team, asking for food, clothing, and shelters. From the midst of the throng emerges a man carrying a child about ten years old. She is listless and both legs are deformed from an obvious crush injury.
Question 2

* In the initial evaluation of a trauma victim, the first priority is:

    Protecting the neck with a C-collar until stability of the spine is confirmed.
    Establishment of intravenous access
    Assuring an open airway and adequate lung ventilation
    Measuring blood pressure and other vital signs
 
Question 3

Among those coming for medical care you note how very common is malnutrition. One two year-old child is poorly responsive to stimulation. His temperature is 38 degrees C, respirations are 30 per minute, pulse is 90, and blood pressure is unobtainable. He has extreme muscle wasting throughout, hair discoloration that is red in color, and loss of adipose tissue with no peripheral edema.

* The first priority in the management of this child with acute protein-energy malnutrition (PEM) is which one of the following:

    Treatment of coexisting medical illnesses
    Provision of high-concentration protein supplement
    Immediate refeeding
    Correction of hydration and acid-base alterations
 
Question 4

In addition to medical care, your team is working to supply safe drinking water, emergency food assistance, and establishment of shelters amid the increasingly frequent rains. All the while, you are struck by how the underlying poverty afflicts the people of this city.

* Poverty generally results from all the following elements EXCEPT which ONE:

    Insufficient income
    Geographic location of country
    Insufficient food and nutrition
    Inadequate water and sanitation
 
Question 5

Some months after the disaster you are called to a meeting of your organization for a post-disaster response assessment. At the forefront of the discussion is not only how your team can better respond to future crises, but also what can be accomplished to prevent them from ever happening.

* One main objective of pre-disaster mitigation is:

    Writing policies
    Creating long-term economic sustainability
    Creating fixes to respond to a disaster event
    Rehearsing a disaster plan
 
Pre-Registration is preferred. We may not be able to provide meals or accommodate session selections for onsite registrants. Please contact office@inmed.us by April 30, 2012 to receive a refund (less a $50 processing fee). Cancellations after April 20, 2012 and no-shows cannot be refunded.
 
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