Radiation Medicine for Safety Professionals
Course schedule
November 1-5, 2010
Introduction
Safety professionals including health physicists, safety specialists, industrial hygienists and others may be called upon to assist health-care professionals with medical management of radiation injuries and illnesses. To meet this need, ORAU’s premier training groups have joined to conduct a five-day course in Radiation Medicine for Safety Professionals.
Professional Training Programs (PTP) brings their radiological sciences expertise together with the Radiation Emergency Medicine (REM) project. The REM project operates the Radiation Emergency Assistance Center/Training Site (REAC/TS) program for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). Both groups have delivered exciting programs to technical and medical professionals for decades. This Radiation Medicine for the Safety Professional course gives an in-depth review of radiation sources of concern and their related health hazards. The American Academy of Health Physics will grant 32 Continuing Education Credits for completion of this course.
Description
This one-week lecture/demonstration course is an introduction to the integration of safety professionals into medicine and the management of radiation-induced injuries and illnesses.
Who should attend
This course is designed for those safety professionals who anticipate involvement with radiation-induced injuries and illnesses in business, industry, hospitals, DOE or NRC facilities or the military. Participants should be familiar with the principles of radiation detection and measurement.
Cost
$1,895 — The tuition includes the full cost of training, books, and instructional materials. Attendees will also receive a free copy of the PTP Electronic Library DVD.
Course Topics
- Risk Communication: Ionizing Radiation Hazards – Dispelling the Myths, Managing the Public and the Media, Sources and Scenarios of Concern
- Radiation Biology: Acute Effects of Ionizing Radiation
- Radiation Accident Management: Radiological Triage, Emergency Care in the Field and Emergency Department, Handling and Management of Contaminated Patients, Planning and Preparedness Activities
- Radiation Monitoring: In Vitro and In Vivo
- Radiation Dosimetry: Physical, Internal, Laboratory, Clinical, and Cytogenetic Chromosomal Aberration Biodosimetry
- Medical Basis for Management of the Acute Radiation Syndrome, Acute Local Radiation Injury, Cutaneous Syndrome
- Diagnosis and Management of Internal Contamination: General Principles, Use of Important Antidotes, Potassium Iodide, DTPA, Prussian Blue
- Case Studies: Yanango, Chernobyl, Tokai-Mura, and others
For further information or assistance, please contact:
Registrar
Professional Training Programs
Oak Ridge Associated Universities
P.O. Box 117, MS-11,
Oak Ridge, TN 37831-0117
Phone: 865.576.3576
Fax: 865.241.9152
registrar@orau.org