Disaster & Emergency Medicine Project
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Welcome to the Internet Home page of the Disaster and Emergency Medicine Project, currently associated with the Sherbrooke and Pakenham Division of General Practice. Please browse for further information on the project. See "What's New" for the latest information.
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This Project seeks to reintroduce the General Medical Practitioner (GP) to Disaster Medicine so that they will again become pro-active participants in, rather than respondents to a Disaster.
The Project has been developed to increase the GPs' PREPAREDNESS to respond to a Disaster. A model has been developed for response to a Disaster by GPs, which will deliver a trained Field Medical Team to stabilise and commence treatment at the site of a Disaster within 30 minutes. It will also facilitate local treatment of the "walking wounded" in GP surgeries, freeing the local hospital Accident and Emergency Departments to deal with the seriously wounded.
The Project Staff : (during 1995/1996)
| Dr George Somers | Project Manager |
| Ms Nicolette Torcello | Project Officer |
| Mrs Kay Auden | Administrative Staff |
| Dr John Drinkwater | GP, Internal reference group |
| Dr John Gruner | GP, Internal reference group |
| + additional help from many others |
General Practice Division association :
| Sherbrooke and Pakenham Division of General Practice, Victoria, Australia |