Educational Opportunities

Medical Reserve Corps members come from a variety of background and enter the program with varying credentials. In an effort to coordinate and integrate the local MRC resources into both local and national emergency response organization, the MRC has developed a set of “core competencies”

These represent the baseline level of knowledge and skill that ALL MRC volunteers should have regardless of their roles within the MRC units.

While we will be offering instructor lead courses, we also realize the usefulness of online training.

TRAIN: a premier online learning resource for MRC volunteers

Advantages:

*Quickly find and register for many courses
* Links available to key academic learning resources
* Select courses by subject, competency, credit type, etc
* Work at your leisure
* Free
* Earn CME,CEU and contact hours for many courses
*Track your learning with personal online transcripts
* Course reviews and discussion board
* Identify MRC Core Competencies and courses that will fulfill the requirements
* Check out upcoming events

How to access TRAIN online training:

Go to www.mrc.train.org
Member log in
If this is your first visit, click “Create Account” on the left to register for TRAIN

Go to Search Courses
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You can choose courses by a variety of criteria:

By Course ID
By Course subject
By Competency
By Credit
Others

Start learning today!

Required Basic Core Competency Courses :
Choose on line or classroom options

SW Florida MRC Orientation
Classroom: available throughout the year- time to be announced
Online: will soon be available on TRAIN

See the SW Florida MRC Training Orientation Presentation.
Disaster Mental Health for MRC Volunteers Course #101034
Classroom: available throughout the year - time to be announced For On-line or Continuing Education Credits register on TRAIN www.mrc.train.org
ICS 100 and ICS 700
www.FEMA.gov
Print and retain your own certificates. No Classroom, only on-line
After you complete the above - Orientation, Disaster Mental Health, and ICS 100 & 700, either on-line or in the classroom, you have achieved your first level of training and met your Basic Core Competencies and can be deployed

Additional Training

Some of our members have decided to expand their role and select areas of special interest beyond the general disaster response. In an effort to accommodate these interests, we will be providing on-site training which can be supplemented by online resources we have listed training resources that can be used to supplement your knowledge.

In addition, you will be notified of additional training, whether instructor lead or online, which will be offered through many of our

Planning for Mass Casuality Incident START Triage Course #1010709

For Continuing Education Credit register on TRAIN www.mrc.train.org

Dr. Abbe Finn, an MRC volunteer and member of the national work group on disaster mental health, demonstrates the use of puppets with children.

Drs. Pat Santucci and Abbe Finn had 2 sessions in Disaster Mental Health for over 200 hundred professionals late spring at Lee Memorial Hospital . The workshop was so well received, that they were asked to do a repeat for the Lee County School System. This 3rd workshop included over 100 school nurses, psychologists, school counselors and social workers and was sponsored by FGCU, Lee County School System and the SW Florida MRC.

Educational Opportunities