POD Drill
Maryland DHMH will host a lunch-time Point-of-Dispensing (POD) drill at the 2015 Maryland Responds Conference to model innovative practices, resources, and techniques for planning and implementing PODs. While being “dispensed” their boxed lunches, conference attendees will go through a POD and experience a series of educational stations that will showcase a POD in action and demonstrate the roles Maryland Responders may fill during a medical countermeasure response.
Exercise Objectives:
Exercise Objectives:
- Provide opportunities to test POD operations.
- Educate participants through a hands-on POD drill that will take place during lunch at the 2015 MD Responds Conference.
- Provide information to Maryland Responders on the purpose, stations, and positions within a POD.
- Time how long the set-up of a POD takes, and calculate the throughput of dispensing lunch to conference participants.