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morningfog

(18,115 posts)
Wed Jul 25, 2012, 09:31 AM Jul 2012

Real life (theatre) shooting imitates training exercise at Parker medical school (On the Same Day)

The tragedy that played out in an Aurora movie theater Friday was ironically paralleled as a classroom learning experience in a medical school in Parker the same day.

Rocky Vista University College of Osteopathic Medicine is in the middle of holding specialized classes in disaster life support for 150 second-year medical students. Along with response to natural disasters like hurricanes and floods and terrorist attacks, one of the scenarios being used to train the students is how to respond if a shooter fires at people in a movie theater and also uses a bomb in the attack.

"The irony is amazing, just amazing," said Rocky Vista Dean Dr. Bruce Dubin.

He said emergency specialist physicians from Parkland Hospital in Dallas as well as from several other emergency programs around the country are teaching the Advanced Disaster Life Support Training. Rocky Vista is the only medical school in the nation to make that training a part of the curriculum.

Read more: Real life shooting imitates training exercise at Parker medical school - The Denver Post http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_21126462/real-life-shooting-imitates-training-exercise-at-parker#ixzz21dmWpLmO


Crazy. Parker is pretty much the next town over from Aurora, a 30 minute drive.
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Real life (theatre) shooting imitates training exercise at Parker medical school (On the Same Day) (Original Post) morningfog Jul 2012 OP
Irony my ass. LiberalFighter Jul 2012 #1
Feels too coincidental, but then coincidents often do feel that way. HereSince1628 Jul 2012 #2
Curse you, Alanis! CURSE YOU! Brickbat Jul 2012 #3
My...remember one weekend we trained nadinbrzezinski Jul 2012 #4

HereSince1628

(36,063 posts)
2. Feels too coincidental, but then coincidents often do feel that way.
Wed Jul 25, 2012, 04:40 PM
Jul 2012

No doubt the FBI and state of Colorado investigators are already on that.

 

nadinbrzezinski

(154,021 posts)
4. My...remember one weekend we trained
Wed Jul 25, 2012, 04:47 PM
Jul 2012

For a hazmat incident involving napalm, next week we had actual incident.

I wrote training protocols, and scenarios, and sometimes we were prescient. It happens.

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