Milbank HOSA Students Experience Medic Camp

Over 65 MHS students learned lifesaving skills such as Stop The Bleed, Hands Only CPR, how to use an EpiPen auto-injector through an escape room experience during a medic camp in the Milbank Armory on October 14. The students also toured an ambulance and learned about the possibilities of becoming an EMT.

Sheila Monnier, associate director of the Northeast South Dakota Area Health Education Center, along with the Grant Count Ambulance, volunteers from Avera Milbank Medical Center, and Mrs. Fischer, the adviser for the MHS Health Occupations Students of America (HOSA) coordinated the camp. A Regional Service Designation (RSD) Grant with the initiative to promote EMS to students across the state of South Dakota helped to facilitate the event.  

Fischer said, “The hope is by providing these Medic Camps that we can help build the workforce of EMS across the state by introducing it to students at this level. Hopefully somewhere down the road, they consider it as a profession, or at least volunteer in their communities in the future. “