VK Advanced Studies in Health Care Process Management (1 SSt/2 ECTS)
WS 2010 - LVA-Nr. 040.650 (Niessner)

This course gives an overview on emergency disaster management, scheduling emergency patients, and training emergeny staff at ambulatory services. Due to an increasing number of mass casualty incidents, their high complexity and uniqueness, decision makers need Operations Research-based policy models for training emergency staff on planning and scheduling at the emergency site. We developed a discrete event simulation policy model which is applied by the Austrian Samaritan Organization. By calculating realistic small, simple, urban to rather big, complex, remote mass casualty emergency scenarios, our policy model helps enhance the quality of planning and outcome. Furthermore, the organization of an advanced medical post can be improved in order to decrease fatalities as well as quickly treat and transport injured individuals to hospitals.

First, the students are introduced into the field of emergency disaster management. Next, the emergency planning game is introduced. Then, student groups experience the game on realistic mass casualty incident scenarios. Finally, the students report on: 1) improvements of the game, 2) their experience during the game, 3) their performance and main wrong decisions during the game, as well as 4) creative realistic scenarios developed by themselves and investigation of optimal solutions for those scenarios.

Date and Time

Saturday, 16.10.2010, 09.00 - 14.00, HS 7 (introduction)
Saturday, 13.11.2010, 09.00 - 14.00, HS 7 (game rounds)
Saturday, 22.01.2011, 09.00 - 12.30, HS 7 (final presentation)

Registration

Please enroll for this course through UNIVIS online. The number of participants is limited to 30.

Requirements for Succeeding

• Presentation of the assignments.
• Delivery of the presentations (Powerpoint) and course paper (WinWord or pdf) in time in an electronic version as well as in a hard copy version.
• Achieve a score of at least 50 points (cf. the following table):

Course Paper

• Length should be between 20 and 30 pages.
• Follow common guidelines for scientific writing.
• Supplement your text with tables and figures.
• By all means make sure that you have listed all sources and have provided adequate references in the paper.
• Avoid plagiarism! We will use a tool that is designed for systematically searching the internet for phrased out of your paper.
• Name the electronic version as "040650_WS10_YourName.doc/pdf/ps/zip" before sending it.
• All papers have to be prepared in English.

Presentation

• Duration should be around 45 minutes including discussion. (This will be checked.)
• There will be a computer projector in each seminar room to support your presentation. It is required that all students bring their own presentation laptops.
• Evaluation criteria are not only the contents (which, however, plays the most important part) but also your presentation technique and the graphical layout of your slides.The primary goal is to arouse interest for the topic by your listeners and to efficiently provide them with all the core information on your case study.
• Presentation and discussions will be held in English.

Literature

Altay N, Green WG (2006) OR/MS research in disaster operations management, European Journal of Operations Research 175(2):475-93.

Rauner, M.S., Schaffhauser-Linzatti, M.M., Niessner, H. (2010) Disaster planning for ambulance services: a DES-based decision support system. Working Paper (submitted).

Enrollment

UNIVIS online-Enrollment