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About Project Immune Readiness
Web-based Courseware
The idea for Project Immune Readiness grew out
of the experiences of the Allergy-Immunology Department and the
Triservice Immunization-Allergy Specialist Course supported since
1976 by Walter Reed Army Medical Center Command. The need for
standardized resources to perform quality immunization services
in the 21st century became evident in the 1990's.
The Armed Forces Epidemiological Board (AFEB),
civilian scientific advisors to the Assistant Secretary of Defense
(Health Affairs), sponsored a review of "Vaccines in the Military"
in 1999. In that report, the AFEB recommended that DoD develop
educational resources to support immunization services. Project
Immune Readiness is one outcome of those recommendations.
In effort to provide wide-spread vaccine education,
many of the vaccine courses used by the DoD have been made available
to civilians through this website. This website is not funded
or supported by the VHC Network or the United States government,
but it is made available to civilians as a public service with
permission from the VHC Network.
Additional resources provided through the CDC
National Immunization Program, the CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization
Practices, and the National Vaccine Advisory Committee include
the following:
Target Audience
Physicians, nurses, nurse practitioners, physician assistants,
DoD paraprofessionals, pharmacists, and their colleagues who either
give immunizations or set policy for their offices, clinics, communicable
disease, or infection control programs. Military, private and
public healthcare providers, including pediatricians, family practice
specialists, residents, and medical and nursing students.
Commitment to Standards of Quality and
to Excellence
There is growing national recognition that clinical-immunization
core knowledge is complex and that training is required on an
ongoing basis. Having a standardized, peer-reviewed system to
facilitate learning and to evaluate that learning process is the
goal of Project Immune Readiness.
Future Needs and Development Vision
Partnerships to assess the value of the material within Project
Immune Readiness are encouraged. If any DoD, Public Health Service,
or academic stakeholders are interested in developing grant applications
for evaluation or expansion of material in this Project, please
contact the Vaccine Healthcare Center at 202-782-0411 or via email
ProjectImmuneReadiness@na.amedd.army.mil.
Walter Reed's Triservice Immunization-Allergy
Specialist Course is evolving to support a "train the trainer"
curriculum so that graduates can be employed by medical treatment
facilities to develop local competency-assessment programs. Partnerships
for this effort are encouraged. Please contact the Vaccine Healthcare
Center to explore this effort.
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