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Department of Veterans Affairs and the Disaster Emergency Medical Personnel System (DEMPS) Program: Virtual World Training System
Dr. Bob Smith, EdD
DEMPS National Program Manager
VHA Office of Emergency Management
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Background: DEMPS Program
• Provides VA volunteers to render healthcare and assistance in a disaster
• Volunteers are deployed either under a Stafford Act Declaration (Federal Disaster) or an emergency or disaster within the VA
• +8,600 volunteers• Drawn from throughout
US, Puerto Rico, Guam, and Philippines
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Performance Requirements
Pre-Deployment Deployment Post Deployment
Readiness: • Personal• Family • Professional
• Respond• Mobilize• Transit• Check-in• Operations• Safety, Security & Health
• Demobilize • Recovery
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Training Gaps
• Train volunteers in specific competencies and application of professional skills (MD, RN, Social Worker) for a disaster for the DEMPS deployment continuum
• Limited participation in Field Exercise due to cost, personnel availability
• No ability to practice mission roles other than field exercise, individually and as a team member
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Web 1.0
Web-based Instruction
• Competency Study• Content
Development• VE Exploration
Phase I Phase IIPart 1
Phase IIPart 2
Web 2.0Virtual Environment (VE)/Virtual World (VW)
Feasibility Study
Apprentice Level
Scenario Events
• Training Requirements
• Platform Evaluation
• Idea Generation• Level 1 Scenario Design• Level 1 Scenario
Segments
• Idea Generation• Level 1 &2 Scenarios• Facilitator & Observer
Guides
• Level 1 & 2 Scenarios Events
• Instructor/Observer Guides
• Evaluation Tool Requirements
Task Break Out: Phase I and II
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Phase II Efforts
• Review of literature• Selected competencies• SME Workshop and Story collection• Live exercise observation• Storyboarding• Prototype
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Variety of settings corresponding to the mission
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Road Ahead: Phase III
• Develop• Implement• Evaluate