title: [The Sino-French emergency and disaster medicine training center].
abstract: French (AP-HP) and Chinese (Beijing Health Office) hospitals, with support from the French company Total, collaborated in order to improve Chinese doctors' knowledge of emergency and disaster medicine prior to the Beijing Olympic Games. A Sino-French emergency and disaster medicine training center was subsequently opened in Beijing in 2008, with the aim of providing high-level continuous medical training for Chinese specialists in emergency medicine. Teaching in the management of critical situations was based on the use of a latest-generation simulator (Sim 3G; Laerdal). This collaboration has had both pedagogical and diplomatic benefits.
authors.affiliation: Hôtel-Dieu, Place du Parvis Notre-Dame - 75004 Paris; e-mail: jean-louis.pourriat@htd.aphp.fr. jean-louis.pourriat@htd.aphp.fr
authors.forename: Jean-Louis
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Pourriat
authors.forename: Benjamin
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Dahan
authors.forename: Claude
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Lapandry
mesh_terms: D002681:China; D002983:Clinical Competence / Q000592:standards; D054597:Disaster Medicine / Q000193:education* / Q000458:organization & administration; D004189:Disaster Planning / Q000379:methods / Q000458:organization & administration; D004502:Education, Medical, Continuing / Q000379:methods*; D004635:Emergency Medicine / Q000193:education* / Q000458:organization & administration; D005602:France; D006801:Humans; D007390:International Agencies / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000592:standards; D007391:International Cooperation