Education for Earthquake Disaster by the Disaster Response Committee of the Japanese Orthopedic Association

Summary: In Japan, education on disaster management began gradually after the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake and has been incorporated into medical education in recent years. However, when I was a student, there was virtually no such education, and even after I became a doctor, I only participated in in-house disaster drills. In recent years, however, earthquakes, heavy rains, and other disasters have become more frequent in Japan, and it has become clear that in-hospital drills are not sufficient to cope with such disasters. The Japanese Orthopedic Association is conducting triage training to first help people understand the basics of disasters, then to formulate a policy in the event of a disaster, and finally to pick up severely injured patients from among those who are generally considered as inherited orthopedic conditions. The training is conducted as a web based exercise, as it was started in 2020, the year of the coronary pandemic. The training is being conducted in each prefecture and has now been held in each prefecture. In the future, we plan to further strengthen our preparedness for future disasters by preparing review materials for reviewing the content of the training and considering training not on a prefecture-by-prefecture basis but on a wide area basis, and face-to-face training.