The University of Chicago First Responder Corps (UCFRC) offers quarterly Emergency Medical Responder courses to undergraduate students looking for basic medical knowledge. More than Band-Aids and aspirin, students go through a ten-week course of intense training in everything from rapid trauma and CPR to bee stings or pregnancy. Whatever your need, these students will have your back.
Each week, classes cover general knowledge as well as hands-on skills. By the end, you’ll know how to administer an EpiPen, perform CPR, backboard a patient with a spinal injury, stop intense bleeding (from a bullet wound, stab wound, or any other kind of wound), and splint a broken limb. In other words, you are now everyone’s new best friend in a crisis.
And while the Red Cross normally charges $400 for this course, UCFRC offers it for a mere $20 with volunteer student instructors. When you pass the skills and written portions of the final test, you earn American Red Cross certification in Emergency Medical Response, Illinois licensure as an Emergency Medical Responder, and are eligible to join the UCEMS response team.
On top of the amazing benefits of new knowledge and skills, you get to spend four hours a week with phenomenal instructors (I can attest to their awesomeness, having just completed the course myself *woot*) who volunteer their time to teach – Grey’s Anatomy (or ER, House, Law & Order SVU) worthy “this one time on the ambulance” stories included free of charge.
Spring quarter applications are now open – get on it: http://ucfrc.uchicago.edu/emrc….