Classes Overview

Focused Specialty Training takes you beyond the basics

Basic training gives you that indispensible, solid foundation for your craft. Then you run a few calls, listen to some stories from the veterans, and realize the basics aren't nearly enough to quench your thirst for knowledge. Now you're ready to dig deeper, learn more, and really shine on scene. Each of the classes listed below will help you get there.

School Bus / Mass Casualty Incident
Mitigation Workshop
In this 4-part workshop, you'll learn what unique vehicles school buses are, how they are engineered to protect their precious cargo, and what you need to know to respond to this or any other mass casualty incident. Click on the title to learn more.

Building MCI Capability
Learn to build or upgrade your initial EMS response equipment to triage and care for multiple patients. Click on the title to learn more.

Working the Railroad
Trains and tracks are a completely different environment from where you're used to working on streets and highways. If you're not familiar with working around freight and passenger trains, this class can save your life.
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MVA Size-up
You're first on scene. You're the eyes and ears of your fellow responders. You're the knights in shining armor to the patients. Now what do you do? Learn tips for the first-arriving company that will make the call run smoother and more professionally.

Seatbelts on School Buses
Using research data and video, you'll explore the controversies surrounding why most school buses do not have seatbelts.

Comrades in Arms
Learn about Fire, EMS, Rescue and Disaster Medicine based on a 2005 professional exchange in Moscow and St. Petersburg, Russia.

Public Information and Education
Learn how to use a helpful, step-by-step tool for information and educational outreach. Learn how to craft messages that identify, match and target audiences, content and delivery methods. Includes hands-on group participation.