Emergency Preparedness

The Emergency Preparedness Response Team organizes hands-on training for medical students in preparation for a variety of emergency situations, coordinates student volunteers for university disaster response, and provides community outreach in emergency and disaster preparedness. This year’s activities included:

1. Leading DOCS/medical student response for the 2021 Haiti Earthquake by inventorying supplies with UM partners and providing logistics support 2. Medical Student Event - Stop the Bleed: Tactical Emergency Casualty Care Training 3. CPR education expansion to RMC at the Guatamalan Maya Center and Miami DOCS clinic nights

The Emergency Preparedness (EP) team continued its mission of patient education at DOCS health fairs through the EP Station. At this station, patients learned about hands-only CPR, received information about firearm safety and safe gun ownership, were offered free installation of smoke detectors through partnership with the American Red Cross Sound the Alarm program, and worked with student volunteers to develop individualized hurricane preparedness plans.