USPHS Office of Force Readiness and Deployment Response Readiness Training Lifecycle

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USPHS Office of Force Readiness and Deployment
Response Readiness Training Lifecycle

• A continuous continuum
• 1 JUN 2007

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Force Readiness Training Life Cycle

• Based on the National Response Plan, National
  Incident Management System
• Meets S3678 Pandemic and All Hazards Preparedness
  ACT objectives, DHHS Secretarys goals
• Provides successive training building blocks for
  readiness competencies

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OFRD Training Groundwork
Training is a continuous continuum successive
training becomes more complex
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OFRD Response Education and Training Lifecycle
for USPHS Commission Corps Officers

• The individual competencies and expertise of
  officers will be considered in 
• assignment during deployments and in access to
  training opportunities 
• It is a command expectation of all officers to be
  prepared, ready to deploy, and to
• exhibit leadership attributes regardless of
  training or deployment role

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Six Mega Competencies of USPHS Responders from
Novice through Executive

• Personal Objectivity
• Effective Communication
• Mental Agility
• Cultural and At Risk Individual Competence
• Superior Field Skills
• Professional Excellence

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Personal Objectivity

• Associated competencies include
• Self assessment
• Recognition of own strengths and weaknesses
• Desire to adjust
• Teaching methods and tools
• Simulations and role play followed by peer
  feedback Novice/Responder level
• 360 assessments (provides performance feedback
  from officers you manage, colleagues, and
  supervisors) management level
• Coaching executive level
• After action reviews- all
• Reading lists - all

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Effective Communication
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Effective Communication

• Associated competencies include
• Active listening
• Consensus building
• Semantic modulation
• Ability to negotiate an agreeable situation
• Public speaking (Translate complex situations
  into simple meaningful explanation)
• Teaching methods and tools
• Modeling novice/responder level
• Coaching management level/executive level
• Field exercises with increasing complexity and
  stress - all
• Reading lists all
• Group exercises, oral presentations and briefings
  during training - all

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Mental Agility

• Associated competencies include
• Adaptability
• Scanning the environment
• Collecting relevant information
• Accurately associating priority, relevance, and
  significance to information
• Interpreting situations
• Envisioning opportunity, future
• Ability to analyze 2nd and 3rd consequences of
  actions
• Teaching methods and tools
• Critical thinking exercises all
• Mission and deployment role diversity all
• Provision of ambiguous scenarios during field
  training - all
• Read business, analytical, and quantitative
  thinking journals - all

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Cultural and At Risk Competence
Repatriation Missions
Diverse Nation
International Health Diplomacy
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Cultural and At Risk Competence

• Associated competencies include
• Understanding USPHS organizational culture and
  OPDIV culture
• Appreciating differences and the influence on
  response of the following variables
• Religious
• Societal
• Geographical
• Political
• Economic
• Physical, cognitive and psychological abilities
• Operational support of at risk populations
• Teaching methods and tools
• Present classes on caring for special needs
  populations as well as regional studies - all
• Provide courses on international relations- all
• Offer opportunities to participate in health
  diplomacy missions - all

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Superior Field Skills

• Associated competencies include
• Understanding spectrum of USPHS missions and
  associated operations
• Technical and tactical proficiency
• Teaching methods and tools
• Present classes and drill down training for
  specific skills across Tiers and specific teams
  (IRCT, RDF, APHT, MHT, HAMR) using building
  blocks for the novice through the executive
• Clinical/staff
• Administration/support
• Management roles
• Executive roles
• Conduct table top, drills, functional, and full
  field exercise participation
• Web based training

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Professional Excellence

• The Corps has become very visible the nation
  and the world will evaluate how we conduct
  missions and the outcome of our labor
• This is an opportunity to be leaders for our
  professions
• Practice must be based on science
• Associated competencies include
• Maintaining category expertise
• Building category profession and the Corps
• Ability to use literature and scientific research
  to advance practice
• Teaching methods and tools
• Classes on conducting a literature search and
  literature review
• Networking and mentoring exercises
• Participation on professional advisory counsel
  (PACs) and associations
• Chairmanship and leadership roles on PAC and
  professional associations

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Building Training Curriculum

• OFRD will work with a consortium of partners to
  develop training plans and curriculum
• Internally
• Transformation working groups
• Professional Advisory Committees
• Tier 1 and Tier 2 team leaders
• ASPR
• SMEs
• Externally
• Federal partners (OPDIVS, DoD, AHRQ, etc.)
• Academia
• Professional organizations
• Training plans and curriculum will be
  continuously reviewed for relevance
• Business plan for execution and funding under
  development

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OFRD Response Education and Training Lifecycle
for USPHS Commission Corps Officers

• The individual competencies and expertise of
  officers will be considered in 
• assignment during deployments and in access to
  training opportunities 
• It is a command expectation of all officers to be
  prepared, ready to deploy, and to
• exhibit leadership attributes regardless of
  training or deployment role

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Novice
Call to Active Duty 1 Year

• Leadership and Response
• Training begins with call to
• active duty
• Officers will meet basic
• readiness requirements

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Goal Officers will have knowledge of Response
requirements and will adopt response culture

• KNOWLEDGE Objectives
• Officers will be able to describe response
  missions and expectations of officers
• Officers will be able to explain the roles of
  response teams and tiers
• Officer shall identify ESF-8 and specifically
  USPHS roles and responsibility according to the
  National Response Plan
• Objectives for adoption of RESPONSE CULTURE
• Officers will be able to create a plan for
  meeting readiness standards within one year of
  Call to active duty.
• Officers will initiate and complete the process
  for meeting readiness standards

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Responder Level
Target 1 yr 5

• Drill down training for
• specific deployment roles
• Officers will deploy in
• response roles

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Goal Officers will develop skills for specific
deployment roles and will deploy in staff function

• KNOWLEDGE Objectives
• As appropriate, Officers will obtain skill
  through web-based training, drills and functional
  exercises in
• Medical management of casualties, taking into
  account the needs of at- risk individuals.
• Public health aspects of public health
  emergencies
• Mental health aspects of public health
  emergencies
• DEPLOYMENT Objectives
• Officers will be trained and able to function in
  the public health management of disasters
  specifically in the areas of planning,
  operations, logistics, administration and finance

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Managerial Level
Target Year 6- 20

• Advanced Leadership
• Training
• Officers are capable
• of assuming leadership
• roles on deployment
• Note Managerial training does not
• excuse Officers from being capable of
• fulfilling a responder role!

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Goal Officers will develop skills for agency and
organization management between the executive
level and first level management

• KNOWLEDGE Objectives
• Expand comprehension on how to support field
  level teams and assets
• Become experts in the roles and responsibilities
  of Federal, state, tribal, local, and private
  organizations during a public health emergency
  response
• DEPLOYMENT Objectives
• Officers will be capable of serving in Incident
  Command Roles as section chiefs, branch
  directors, Division/Group Supervisors, Team
  Leaders

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Executive Level
Target Year 20

• Executive Leadership
• Training
• Officers are capable
• of assuming senior
• leadership roles on
• deployment

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Goal Officers will be prepared to fill ICS roles
as Unified Commander, Incident Commander, Command
Staff in either area command or single command
and to act as a Senior Health Official or Senior
Medical Official

• KNOWLEDGE Objectives
• Expertise in managing multi-agency coordination
  systems
• Proficiency in advanced ICS
• DEPLOYMENT Objectives
• Provide executive level multi-agency coordination

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FY 07 OFRD Training Initiatives

• Learning Management System
• Change to Blackboard
• One training system
• Community space
• Interface FEMA
• Enterprise Architecture/MOAS
• QA/QC

• Response Team Training
• (Postponed, Contingency plan under development)
• National Priorities/HHS Playbooks
• Skills, drills, functional exercises across teams
• APHTs, MHTs, RDFs
• DoD, Johns Hopkins, American Red Cross
• Ft Sam Houston Camp Bullis

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FY 07 ASPR Training Initiatives

• Managerial Executive
• IRCT Drill Down Training (Web Based)
• Operations
• Planning
• Logistics
• Admin/Finance
• Leadership Training
• Playbooks
• Pan flu (workshop)
• IND/RDD (Discussions plus tabletops)
• Hurricanes (Discussions plus tabletops)
• Possibly Earthquake, Anthrax, IED

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FY 07 OFRD Training Initiatives

• Call to Active Duty (novice)
• Developing curriculum
• Operational concepts validated
• Need finalized curriculum approval from
  Transformation Officer to develop and test
• USPHS Scientific and Training Symposium
• Available to all Tiers
• Quarantine and surge capacity
• CDC, University of Michigan, OFRD, UCLA, DoD,
  AHRQ
• Direct Military Training Network BLS program for
  USPHS
• HAMR team training curriculum
• Development of professional training curriculum
  in conjunction with PACs

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Questions?

• CDR Kimberly Elenberg
• Medical Readiness Training Director
• 301-443-1476
• LCDR Patrick Denis
• Training Program Management Officer
• 301-443-1475