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| Title |
Transportation Disaster Response – Mass Fatality Incidents for Medicolegal Professionals |
| Description |
This course examines the principles of victim recovery and identification and the associated family assistance procedures for successfully managing mass fatality incidents involving transportation related accidents.
In addition to classroom presentations, participants will conduct a simulated search and recovery exercise and conduct the initial operation of a disaster morgue. Course faculty includes NTSB responders, forensic scientists, and federal agency representatives with a variety of experience in mass fatality response. |
| ID Code |
TDA403 |
| Dates and Tuition |
November 3-6, 2009
$770 for all applications with payment received no later than October 3, 2009
$852 for all applications with payment received October 4 - October 28, 2009
$902 for all applications submitted between October 29 and 12:00 pm (noon) ET on November 2
$50 processing fee will be added to tuitions for all offline applications (starting October 1, 2008)
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| Times |
Time: 9 am - 5 pm
November 6: 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. |
| Location |
NTSB
Training Center • 45065 Riverside Parkway • Ashburn, Virginia 20147
|
| Status |
OPEN. Applications are now being accepted. |
| Apply to Attend |
November 3-6, 2009 |
| CEUs |
2.4
|
| Other Accreditations |
Approved by the American Board of Medicolegal Death Investigators
for 25.3 Continuing Education Hours.
Approved by the Pennsylvania Coroner's Education Board under the
provisions of Act 22 of 1988 for 8 hours of Continuing Education.
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| Overview |
- History and evolution of mass
fatality incident response
- Roles of federal agencies involved in
transportation mass fatality response events
- Victim recovery and working with the
FBI Evidence Response Team
- Theory and practice of victim
identification, including the use of DNA technology
- Family assistance center operations
and family briefings
- Management of personal effects
- Collection of antemortem data
(medical, dental, DNA)
- Changes in procedures in criminal
events
- Survival factors issues for the
forensic responder
- Post-response issues: site visits,
memorials, family interactions, site mitigation
- Media relations in mass fatality
events
- Practical exercises in recovery and morgue operations
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| Performance Results |
Upon completion of this course the
participant will be able to:
- Explain
the processes and methods employed in a mass fatality incident response
- Clarify the roles of
the state and federal government agencies
- Define federal laws impacting the management of
transportation disasters
- Discuss the role of forensic science in a mass
disaster scene
- Recognize the role of the NTSB, the FBI and other federal agencies during
a mass disaster
- Identify the challenges of
integrating ante mortem and post mortem data during a
mass fatality incident
- Define what role DNA plays in the
identification process and the role of pathology as it relates
to the investigation
- Discuss the role of survival factors investigation
by the NTSB
- Explain the issues involved with
family assistance including family briefings, site visits, memorials and personal effects
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| Who May Attend |
- Medical examiners and coroners
- Local, state, and federal medicolegal
investigators
- Forensic scientists: anthropologists,
odontologists, pathologists, DNA analysts
- DMORT team members
- Military mortuary team members and
related personnel
- State emergency management agency
employees
- Municipal, county, state, and federal
law enforcement agency personnel
- Members of the academic community attending for research purposes (on a space-available basis)
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| Accommodations |
Area hotels and
restaurants |
| Airports |
Washington
Dulles International (IAD): 10 miles
Washington Ronald
Reagan National (DCA): 30 miles
Baltimore/Washington
International (BWI): 60 miles |
| More Information |
Email TrainingCenter@ntsb.gov
or call (571) 223-3900
Courses, forums and symposia are added to the schedule throughout the
year. Subscribe to the e-newsletter to learn about upcoming events
and new programs: http://www.ntsb.gov/TC/list/list.htm |
