Table 1.

Timeline and summary of the emergency medicine and disaster preparedness project, Turkey, 2006-2009

Phases	Title	Duration	Description
Phase I	Disaster preparedness and response	March-June 2006	Preparation for and implementation of a 1-day course on disaster preparedness held in capital city of Ankara
Phase II	Stakeholders conference and preparation	July 2006	Two-day meeting on state of emergency medicine both internationally and in Turkey, EM program development, leadership, and pre-hospital care systems, with the goal of forming consensus for goals and objectives of project
Phases III	Train-the-trainers conference	Nov 2006	Five-day conference on core EM topics given collaboratively by faculty from EMAT and GWUMC to the regional coordinators. This was followed by final organization and translation of conference materials into a 4-day EM course, development of a web-based site containing all course materials, logistics planning for course administration, and production of class handouts
Phase IV	Course implementation	Nov 2006-May 2009	Administration of the 4-day EM course to Turkish EM practitioners in 7 regions of Turkey