VCOM Auburn Yearbook 2019

cost-effective Basic Life Support (BLS) classes to students and faculty as well as outreach events in our community. For the first time, ACOEP joined with the Texas Two Step CPR Save a Life Campaign to provide a hands-on CPR community outreach event on Auburn University’s campus in which more than 150 participants were successfully trained. A unique element of ACOEP is the Wilderness Medicine Committee, which meets on a weekly basis to provide medical adventure race training by VCOM-Auburn’s very own J.J. White, DO, PhD, followed by a group run.

backcountry and elite winter athlete issues culminating in a mass casualty simulation. During the conference, students had the opportunity to practice several procedural skills including cricothyrotomy, chest tube thoracostomy and pericardiocentesis on a wearable task-trainer. This year kicked off the Second Annual VCOM Rescue Race, where more than 25 teams of VCOM-Auburn students converged on Chewacla State Park in Auburn, Alabama for a wilderness medicine adventure race. Competitors ran, biked and kayaked 10 miles of trail while participating in five simulated medical scenarios, each sponsored by a different VCOM organization.

ACOEP kicked off the first annual Mountain Medicine Conference

in Park City, Utah where students learned about resort mountain safety,

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