The Core Disaster Life Support庐 (CDLS) course is a half day, 3.5 hour competency-based, awareness-level course that introduces clinical and public health concepts and principles for the management of disasters and public health emergencies. The course incorporates the 鈥渁ll-hazards鈥� approach to personal, institutional, and community disaster management through the use of two unique mnemonics:
鈥�The CDLS course provides students from diverse professions, disciplines, and backgrounds with a common lexicon, vocabulary and knowledge in disaster-related medicine and public health that can be reinforced and expanded upon in the BDLS庐 and ADLS庐 courses.
The CDLS course if for medical first responders, health care professionals, health care service providers, public health workers, and health support personnel.