This module consists of a short presentation on tabletop exercise design and development. It can be used by individual planners to familiarize themselves with the planning process or as a briefing package to train exercise planning staff.

This module contains a number of exercise planning and development tools, including key templates and guidelines for setting up and conducting exercises. Included are:

• a 10-step tabletop exercise development process;
• tabletop exercise document templates;
• tabletop exercise logistics, costing and setup guides; and
• tips on conducting a tabletop exercise.

This module identifies key reference material related to pandemic influenza planning and response in Canada, and contains information on Canadian pandemic phases.

This module provides planning tools to assist with the design and conduct of a simple pandemic influenza tabletop exercise, scaled to meet a variety of requirements. It contains:

• a Generic Exercise framework, including Situation Summaries with associated key questions;
• an Inject Inventory which provides a variety of selectable discussion questions for exercises scaled to various levels; and
• a sample exercise schedule.