Traditional Emergency Medical Service (EMS) and other professionals who seek to prepare themselves for complex medical challenges in various emergency and disaster settings.  This field includes EMT's, Paramedics, military medics and technicians, resuce personnel and other professionals interested in extending their skills into to the tactical field setting.

Health Care System risk managers and public health professionals who find themselves responsible for coordination and decision making in emergency and disaster situations. This course of study focuses specifically on command and control, emergency operations, and community-wide medical preparedness. Hospital administrators, safety officers, public health officials, physicians, nurses, allied health and facility management professionals are just some of the career fields that may encounter these responsibilities.

This unique aspect of Emergency and disaster preparedness and response identifies the knowledge, skills and abilities to sustain medical operations during disasters. This emergency supply chain, use rate(burn), resupply and storage issues that affect life saving activities, applying business logistic models, a wide array of health care entities can benefit from grasping this otherwise missing discipline- career fields local, state, and federal medical response personnel, military logistic personnel, community planners, and business partners.

This emerging topic in healthcare addresses the public need to care for large volumes of ill/incapacitated casualties of natural and manmade disasters. Typically, modern hospital capacity doesn't absorb sudden or sustained patient increases. Surge as a discipline explores methods for health care facilities to absorb mass casualty influx and to deploy assets capable of off loading patient populations to alternative care settings. This dynamic new course provides the Big Picture view especially for; Hospital medical staff, senior leadership, local, state, federal surge teams, community planners, and emergency management and public health personnel