The Mayo Clinic’s Emergency Medicine Paramedic Program partnered with local first responders to create life like medical emergency scenarios to give students hands on experience on Tuesday July 30th.

The students taking part in the simulation started last August and are finishing their first year in the program. Instructors told us hands on lessons like these are vital to students’ success in the program.

“Our program tries to create lifelike scenarios about a year into our students progress. These students started last august, they’re just finishing their first year and we bring in local fire departments to help us make the scenarios as lifelike as possible,” said lead instructor Ashleigh Erdmann. “We have former students who come in and be our patients just so the patients are alive and can communicate, it’s not a mannequin. It helps them prepare better for what they’re going to be looking at come may once they graduate and pass all their exams. “

Upon successful completion of the program, all graduates receive a certificate of completion from Mayo Clinic School of Health Sciences. Students completing the associate degree track will also receive an A.S. degree from RCTC.

You can learn more about the The Mayo Clinic’s Emergency Medicine Paramedic Program here.