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Bioterrorism Preparedness Training for LRN Sentinel Laboratories
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Please be advised that beginning June 3, 2013, APHL will no longer host this course on our Continuing Education Center site.  An updated version of this training will be available after June 3rd on the CDC TRAIN Learning Management System.  If you register today you must complete the course by June 3, 2013.  Alternatively, if you would like to register for updated course and would like a full year to complete this training please consider delaying your registration until after June 3rd.  Please return to this site after June 3, 2013 to be directed to CDC TRAIN site for registration.  Questions?  Please email customersupport@aphl.org

Description 

Each of these Intermediate-level, interactive online course modules review a component of the Laboratory Response Network (LRN) protocols for bioterrorism agent identification. The modules include case studies, real-life laboratory scenarios and links to resource information. Course materials may be used as part of a laboratory’s competency assessment program for terrorism preparedness. Updated for 2013; six course modules are available, including: 

  • Anthrax (Bacillus anthracis)
  • Brucella (Brucella spp)
  • Burkholderia (Burkholderia spp)
  • Plague (Yersinia pestis)
  • Tularemia (Francisella tularensis)
  • Laboratory Biosecurity

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Audience

These online course modules are designed for public health and clinical laboratorians, safety professionals and persons interested in the laboratory’s role in bioterrorism preparedness.

Objectives

After completion of all modules, the participant will be able to:
Define the levels of the Laboratory Response Network (LRN) and discuss their relationship with each other

  • List potential bioterrorism agents that must be reported to public health authorities, and explain the role of the clinical laboratory in detecting these organisms in clinical specimens.
  • Discuss standardized laboratory tests used to isolate and identify Bacillus anthracis, Brucella spp, Burkholderia spp, Yersinia pestis, Francisella tularensis, and explain how to use these tests to rule out or refer isolates.
  • Define biosecurity, including threats, vulnerabilities and relationship to biosafety
    Explain how to conduct a laboratory biosecurity risk assessment and use the results to formulate a complete biosecurity plan.
  • Identify appropriate reference resources. 
  • Continuing Education

    The Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL) is approved as a provider of continuing education programs in the clinical laboratory sciences by the ASCLS P.A.C.E.® Program. Participants who successfully complete each module of this course will be awarded 1.5 contact hours, or a total 9.0 contact hours for all modules. Application to the ASCLS P.A.C.E.® Program has been submitted.  If you have further questions please contact customersupport@aphl.org.

    Delivery Format

    Program is best viewed using Windows XP and Internet Explorer 6.x and 7.x. Windows Vista users should use Internet Explorer 7.x. NOTE: Pop-up blockers must be turned off.

    The course modules each include a pre-test, post-test and evaluation, all of which need to be completed in order to receive continuing education credit.

    Registration

    This course is FREE. You can register for the bundle or for individual modules. 

    BT Train All 6 modules

    Bacillus anthracis
    Brucella spp
    Burkholderia spp
    Biosecurity
    Yersinia pestis
    Francisella tularensis

    If you have difficulty with the online registration process, please email registrar@aphl.org or call 240.485.2727.
    Upon receipt of your registration, a confirmation letter with detailed directions regarding accessing these module(s) will be sent by email.
    For additional program information, email ondemand@aphl.org.

     


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