The Dekalb County, Georgia, Advanced Practice Center has created Master the Disaster, a tool that helps with the preparation of a tabletop exercise. According to Julie Smith, “What we wanted to do was take btCreate, which was extremely popular for several years after it came out, and create a sequel, updating it, adding more scenarios, expanding the resources section, providing better and greater interactivity, customization options and a lot more features. It also includes a 70-page Facilitator’s Guide that takes you step-by-step through everything you need to know to plan, design, conduct and evaluate a tabletop exercise, including a template for your After Action Report. The scenarios are: anthrax, botulism, hurricane, pandemic flu, plague, radiological dispersal device (RDD) and smallpox. Basically it’s btCreate on steroids.”
Julie would be happy to send you a free CD-ROM copy; her contact information is on the web site mentioned above.
