GERMS Featured in The Hoya

An article published today in The Hoya described our transition to electronic patient care records (ePCRs).  To read the article, click here: http://thehoya.com/news/GERMS-Implements-New-Record-System8271035/

GERMS Academy to Kickoff!

GERMS Academy, a three-day training event for all GERMS members to refresh their skills, will kick off tomorrow. GERMS members will have full schedules from 12:15 to 6pm on Thursday, and from 9am to 6pm on both Friday and Saturday.

Each day will involve drills where GERMS members will hone their practical skills, including spinal immobilization, vehicle extrication, cardiac arrest management, sports medicine, shortness-of-breath calls, and soft-tissue injuries. There will be four speakers that will give lectures, including two emergency medicine physicians, a Georgetown NHS professor, and a paramedic who has provided emergency medical care in India, Haiti, and at Hurricane Katrina. In addition, GERMS medical director Dr. Hudson, assistant medical director Dr. Katzer, and Dr. Vieth, all emergency medicine physicians, will be at Academy to run skill drills and put GERMS members to the test with tricky scenarios.

GERMS Academy (otherwise known as GERMS "boot camp") will be sure to keep all GERMS personnel in top-notch EMS shape and ready to respond to any medical emergency this academic year!

NSO Open House

During NSO, feel free to stop by the GERMS Office to learn more about who we are and what we do!  This is a great time to learn more about our EMT-Basic class that will be offered this fall.  Our office is located in Village C West, on the 2nd floor.  (Village C West is #44 on this map: http://explore.georgetown.edu/locations/index.cfm?Action=View&LocationID=35) Simply take the elevator in the DPS Lobby to the second floor and our office is on your left.  Look for signs posted outside Village C West directing you to the office!  If you have questions, feel free to call our non-emergency line at (202) 687-7546.

Information Session Locations Announced

If you are interested in taking the Fall 2010 EMT-Basic course offered by GERMS, please plan on attending ONE of the following four information sessions.  Attendance at one is mandatory in order to apply for the class.

• September 2 @ 9:15 pm in White-Gravenor 211
• September 3 @ 9:15 pm in White-Gravenor 211
• September 4 @ 2:15pm in White-Gravenor 211
• September 5 @ 8:15 pm in ICC 108

If you have additional questions, please email Marcus Cortez, the Director of Training (GERMSDoT@gmail.com)