Learner Reviews & Feedback for Disaster Preparedness by University of Pittsburgh
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JC
Sep 3, 2015
Very insightful course. The peer-reviewed plan was also incredibly useful, both in the exercise itself and seeing the risks (and mitigation plans) by others. Outstanding!
CY
Sep 8, 2020
The best course with hands-on skills ready for use and application in a disaster situation. Very interactive with key stakeholders representatives sharing their experiences.
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By Alexander G S
•Jun 15, 2020
It was a good course. There were a couple of mistakes in the text and also between the text and quiz. The last two I remember are in Lesson 5 the presenter from Japan stated for DMAT. "Actually I participated in the medical care for the Great East Japan Earthquake as a member of the Japanese DMAT, Disaster Management Assistance Team which is quite different from the American DMAT." The problem was in the quiz that was not an option, it did have "Disaster Medical Assistance Team", which of course is the correct answer and was in his slide. Another was in Lesson 6 where Michael states, "Third, the triage person will check how fast the victim is breathing. If over 30 breaths per minute and they may not need to count, if it's fast, they will know. They will tag the victim as red. If it's less than 30, they will check perfusion, or blood flow." Of course, when he goes and states "If it's less than 30." he's actually talking about Stage Four and not three. It was in the slides and any new students would be wise to save the slides to refer to for any quizzes, the text can be tricky. The only other piece was the assignment, if going to be reviewed by other students, it should have something showing if they left a response or not. I spent a good 20 minutes looking for their responses (there weren't any). As stated I liked the course otherwise, Lesson 6 was good to understand how the Triage system works that I didn't know about. Cheers.
By Kirby P P
•Apr 26, 2020
Needs to update the course with regards to pandemic disaster and other disaster our world is facing.
By David T
•Oct 14, 2019
It was a very good basic course. It relied to much on FEMA and help coming.
By EgoSum P
•May 19, 2020
Good way to be prepared on actual disasters! Kudos!
By Rohan P
•Jul 6, 2020
An informative course but instructor was boring.
By Dean W
•Apr 24, 2020
it has help with something i have overlook
By Eddie W J
•Oct 23, 2018
good teachers and yet the
By Elizabeth T T
•Feb 19, 2021
The peer assignment could have been made a lot easier by just requiring that we submit a .pdf or Word document with all of the stipulated prompts. Having to enter each detail in separate boxes, and not being able to copy-paste tables only made the whole thing confusing and cluttered.
By Daniel H
•Apr 6, 2024
Outdated links, vague information, bad quizzes, unidentified equipment.
By Zabrina P
•Aug 18, 2025
I have not received any feedback of my assigment
By MUVVALA P V L G K
•Jan 6, 2021
Getting certificate is worst here
By RIDHI J
•Sep 15, 2022
MY COURSE WILL NOT ABLE TO OPEN
By Parvez R
•Jan 30, 2022
Very upset this course