Bristol County MRC

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"Massachusetts Responds: A Vaccinator Training"
DPH Vaccinator Training Course

An online educational tool and CME activity
Sponsored by Massachusetts Medical Society and
Massachusetts Department of Public Health's Bureau
of Infectious Disease Prevention,
Response and Services

The course is based upon DPH's training sessions
presented across the state. The format is a 3-module
program including all the slides and resource materials
in the areas of: 1) definition of influenza types,
2) the principles of vaccine management,
3) a description of vaccine preparation and
administration techniques.
Resource materials include all of the handouts,
templates and forms utilized in the live sessions.

The goal is to expand the reach of DPH's vaccinator
training to those health professionals who may not
have been able to attend one of the live sessions

The course is now live.
The URL is www.massmed.org/cme/dphtraining .
Please feel free to download all presentations and
materials for use with your staff, local MRC etc.

Please feel free to contact me with any questions.

Vanessa Kenealy, JD
Education Coordinator for MSAR
Massachusetts Medical Society
860 Winter Street Waltham, MA 02451
Office 781-434-7319 - Fax 781-434-7455
vkenealy@mms.org

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Welcome to TRAIN
the premier learning resource for professionals
who protect the public's health.
A free service of the Public Health Foundation,
www.train.org is part of the newly expanded
Training Finder Real-time Affiliate
Integrated Network (TRAIN).

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ICS100a / NIMS700a - Required training
ICS -Learn the chain of command and
the system of managing multi-agency personnel
in responding to an emergency.
NIMS - the consistent nationwide system that
enables all government, non-government and
private sector entities to work together during
a domestic incident regardless of size/complexity.

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Volunteers from all walks of life needed to support
the Medical Reserve Corps
For information on how to become a
Medical Reserve Corps (MRC) volunteer,
go to the Bristol County MRC Collaborative website
www.bristolcountymrc.org
and locate the MRC unit covering your community.
Volunteers from every walk of life are needed to
support health care professionals in
public health disaster response.

The Massachusetts Department of Public Health
is offering the
Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS)
training series for all MRC volunteers.
The purpose of the training is to provide information on
how to improve the quality of the services provided to
diverse members of our community.
It is built to help the elimination of
racial and ethnic health disparities and makes services
more responsive to the individual needs of clients.
This training series focuses on providing culturally
competent care and ensuring language access.
The objective is to foster cultural competence and reflect
and respect diversity while planning, evaluating,
building community partnerships, and providing care.
Here is a link to the overview of the Training Series.