Medical students got out of the clinic and got a taste of what it's like to be a first responder. Second year medical students at the Medical College of Wisconsin, Green Bay Campus, learned how firefighters and paramedics treat patients in the field before they get to the hospital.
Members of the De Pere and Howard fire departments showed the students how to rescue a patient from a burning building and how to free someone stuck inside a car.
They also learned how paramedics tend to patients in the ambulance while on the way to the hospital.
“It’s real time that they will face in their communities, especially if they become a provider in their smaller rural community where they are very much a resource to those firefighters and ems personnel and it’s not something that is routinely practiced by medical students,” said Steve Stroman, emergency EMS physician at Aurora BayCare Medical Center.