CEEPET’s mission is to provide competency-based emergency preparedness education and training, using an all-hazards approach, to staff members of hospitals, community health centers, long term care facilities, and emergency medical service providers.

The U.S.’s and U.K.’s efforts to combat obesity reflect underlying differences in the two countries’ understandings of obesity’s causes.

A BMI requirement for physicians would not necessarily increase primary care doctors’ effectiveness in providing weight counseling.

Clinicians should have a working understanding of gene editing, controversy surrounding its use, and its far-reaching clinical and ethical implications.

Testing everyone for everything identifies more fetal conditions, but confusion persists about whether clinicians should leave screening decisions to patients.

An overview of disaster and mass casualty triage, the philosophies that have shaped current triage strategies, and the two most common triage systems in the U.S., SALT (Sort-Assess-Lifesaving Interventions-Treatment/Transport) and START (Simple Triage and Rapid Transport).

The AMA Code of Medical Ethics’ opinion on physician duty to treat in a disaster.

The AMA Code of Medical Ethics' opinions on respect for civil and human rights.

Those who survived Hurricanes Katrina and Rita faced homelessness and physical and mental health problems that created ethical dilemmas for physicians.

The VA works with federal, state, and community agencies to ameliorate the homeless veteran problem and some of its causes.