Emergency Medicine

With the HealthCare Simulation Center

Learning Objectives

Exploring medical careers
Having a plan of action in an emergency situation
Learning CPR, how to apply a tourniquet, and intubate

The Experience

Greenville HealthCare Simulation Center creates a day-long experience for Benjamin Franklin Experience students to provide a glimpse into emergency medicine. In a hands-on training environment typically limited to medical students, BFE teens are led through exercises demonstrating how to:

intubate a patient not breathing;
perform CPR; and
apply a tourniquet.

Working on high-tech simulators capable of breathing, bleeding, blinking, and talking, students learn how they could take meaningful action during a medical emergency. They also gain exposure to the incredible field of medicine through a team of passionate and highly-accomplished experts.

Students Say…

I realized I might want to be a physician’s assistant.

~Isaiah

In the last year of high school I kind of pigeonholed myself saying, I can’t go to medical school. Now I’m looking at that in a new way and considering it as an opportunity. Maybe I can go to medical school.

~Scout