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• The Program's objective is to enhance the knowledge and skills of health care professionals to meet the public health preparedness and emergency response demands resulting from acts of bioterrorism and other incidents.

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Traditional classroom environment

One of the problems that have been found to reduce the effectiveness of emergency responders has been traced to communication barriers and the lack of standard emergency management practices. For example, the department of homeland security has recently encouraged the use of plain text instead of coded communications. This is because codes are agency specific. One of the solutions proposed to deal with such issues is to make it mandatory for emergency services to adopt a standardized approach to manage emergency situations, crises and disasters. The Institute of Emergency Management at the ISU Boise, an IBAPP partner, is already providing face to face National Incident Management System (NIMS), Incident Command System (ICS) and Hospital Emergency Incident Command System (HEICS) training to local agencies (Figure 8). One of the goals of IBAPP is not only to increase the reach of this training through distance learning methodologies but also to increase their effectiveness through simulation technologies. Figure 8 IBAPP staff attending a Face to face Training the trainer National Incident Management System class.