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Earn 4-6 CME credit hours per course learning how to diagnose and treat exposure to weapons of mass destruction (WMD) agents.

FMI has developed courses in anthrax (bacteria), smallpox (virus) and nerve agents (chemical) exposure, diagnosis and treatment.

A sample Table of Contents from the FMI Anthrax for EMS Personnel course includes:

1. Type of WMD Agent

2. Common Routes of Exposure

3. Common and Life-threatening Effects

4. Airway, Breathing and Circulation

5. Prehospital Treatment

6. Antidote

7. Disposition

8. Physical Properties

9. Patient Decontamination

10. Site Decontamination

11. Personal Protective Equipment

12. Securing the Scene

13. Handling Contaminated Packages/Letters

14. Testing for Anthrax in the Prehosptial Setting

15. Reporting Suspected/Confirmed Exposures

16. POST TEST

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1.CME Credit: Completion of all FMI online medical education earns students continuing medical education credit - appropriate and customized for different audiences (for physicians, nurses and EMS Personnel). Currently, FMI accredits courses for Category I CME credit hours. Our accrediting agency is in Colorado - so in the case of EMS Personnel and others affected by geographic considerations, be sure that you can use Colorado accreditation.

2.FMI's weapons of mass destruction (WMD) courses includes all of the content and illustrations necessary to become comfortable with each weapons agent's history, facts, presentation, diagnosis, treatment, antidote, decontamination, evaluation, lab/radiology and more.

3.FMI WMD courses also include case studies with practice questions throughout - drills in the Socratic method that keep the student engaged on the topic.

4.Reference Material - FMI has developed proprietary reference material for each WMD agent - material that is directly relevant to a range of clinicians and caregivers - for use both during an online course and for use at the point of care. (learn more here)

Benefits of FMI Training and the LearnCentrix online learning platform

1.Instructor and Institutional Surveillance: Instructors and institutions can easily monitor all student activity in courses (when a group of student access rights are purchased in bulk). This can enable compliance programs.

2.Instructor Experience: FMI's online medical education is developed by practicing physicians in combination with leading instructors in the field who have many years of experience. These physicians, medical directors and instructors have recognized specific needs for this kind of online training - which is more robust than the usual e-learning modules - and much more practical, inexpensive, and focused than most live training.

3.Database-driven: Unlike most online training, students can leave a course and come back later to resume their studies – over weeks and months – because FMI’s online learning is built in a persistent database.

4.CME Certificate Back-up: Because our courses are built in a database, your certificate is stored online and can be retrieved well after completion of the course and final exam. You do not have to print your certificate immediately upon completion, though it is recommended.

5.Collaboration Capabilities: The FMI learning content management system (lcms) allows course developers, instructors and students to collaborate in novel ways - from the creation of courses by teams in remote locations to the teaching of courses to students who are spread out, FMI's lcms allows for about any kind of collaboration on courses and content that you can imagine.

6.Content Enhancements from Database Platform: Because FMI courses are built in a robust lcms (database-driven), we can add content (e.g. in the "library") for use during or after courses, we can create custom pre- and post-tests, we can report on specific results (e.g. pre- vs. post-test results on specific questions), we can invite participants to other courses or events in specific portions of a course or content (e.g. in the pharmacology or antidote section, invite students to take surveys on drugs - for cash), etc.