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The recent graduates of this course are ready.
Sixty-four students learned how to establish a Federal Coordinating Center responsible for day-to-day planning, training, and operations for multiple patient-receiving areas in a city during a natural disaster. Following two and half days of presentations, students practiced what they had learned using the JKO SGST online table-top exercise.
The JKO SGST provides a team-training environment to dispersed audiences. Allowing them to refresh skills, foster teamwork competencies, and accelerate the team formation process before a real-world event or large-scale exercise. It's a low-cost, repeatable training tool that can assist with onboarding new personnel who join a team after an exercise to maintain readiness.
SGST students received the scenario and began alerting and activating teams. Groups worked to conduct patient movement program management by responding to injects concerning patient manifest issues, lack of aircraft/ground transportation, and public affairs requests. Course facilitators monitored student activity, reviewed team inject responses, sent chats to individual students or groups, and replied to RFIs.
SGST Features
"SGST is a completely new tool to us.
We’ve never seen anything like this.
It seems like exactly what we are looking for to satisfy our training requirements,” said Niki McBain of the VA Office of Emergency Management Training and Exercise Branch.
"This is the fourth year the SGST has been used to support this course. With improvements to our computer network, annual review of the SGST content, and feedback from facilitators and students, execution of the training has gotten much better over the several years we’ve been doing this,” said Danny Eason, VA Office of Emergency Management.
Each reusable SGST is designed and developed collaboratively with the training audience, so it is tailored to their products and processes and refined with each iteration. SGST scenarios can be revisited anytime post exercise.
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