Calamityville is uniquely capable in the ability to provide a comprehensive, integrated learning service to include; Education & Training, Modeling & Simulation (Live – Virtual – Constructive), Consulting & Management and Research, Development, Testing & Evaluation. With the reach back capability to Wright State University and an extensive array of experience and expertise from our full-time staff
and adjunct staff/instructors, Calamityville is able to bring our vision to our customers and partners.
1. The Division of Emergency Management & Response Operations (Core I), Wright State University (WSU), Calamityville, provides medically oriented education, training, product testing, and research opportunities for medical and non-medical civilian and military personnel. Despite the fact that the field is called emergency management, disasters are not synonymous with emergencies. A disaster is any emergency or destructive event that overwhelms the resources and capabilities of a local community to respond to and recover from the impacts of that event. Emergency Management is the profession that coordinates and integrates all activities intended to limit death, injury, human suffering, and property damage from both natural and man-made disasters.
2. The Division of Operational & Disaster Medicine (Core II), Wright State University (WSU), Calamityville, provides medically oriented education, training, product testing, and research opportunities for medical and non-medical civilian and military personnel. Operational Medicine is the healthcare provided in unconventional settings where important resources may be significantly restricted. These resources could include limited supplies, expertise, time, location, or climate extremes. Operational Medicine includes, but is not limited to, Military Medicine, Event Medicine, Emergency Medicine, Tactical Medicine, Pre-Hospital Medicine and Aviation Medicine. Disaster Medicine (Battlefield Medicine/Field Surgery/Combat Casualty Care) is the treatment of wounded combatants and non-combatants in or near an area of combat. Civilian medicine has greatly advanced by procedures that were first developed to treat the wounds inflicted during combat. With the advent of advanced procedures and medical technology. Battlefield medicine is a category of military medicine.
