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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsReal 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
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LiberalFighter
(50,499 posts)1. Irony my ass.
Unless one is crazy creating a scenario the likelihood is that it could happen.
HereSince1628
(36,063 posts)2. Feels too coincidental, but then coincidents often do feel that way.
No doubt the FBI and state of Colorado investigators are already on that.
Brickbat
(19,339 posts)3. Curse you, Alanis! CURSE YOU!
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)4. My...remember one weekend we trained
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.