WATERTOWN — The North Country EMS Program Agency, along with Fort Drum’s Bridgewater-Vaccaro Medical Simulation Training Center, will be hosting the 2024 Fort Drum EMS Day on March 2.
This event aims to bring military medics and civilian EMS providers together to develop a working knowledge of the operations and capabilities in those areas.
There will be burn education presented by Fort Drum and SUNY Upstate Burn Center and static/dynamic sessions with air medical.
Organizers are expecting around 30 EMS personnel to be in attendance.
“Striving to build stronger and more efficient regional emergency medical services, the FDRHPO EMS Program Agency is proud to offer the Fort Drum EMS Day to our EMS personnel,” said Jonathan Cole, FDRHPO’s EMS Program Agency director, in a news release. “We are very excited to bring this event back because it is always exciting to see our military and civilian EMS providers learning and training side-by-side, sharing their knowledge and experiences.”
The Bridgewater-Vaccaro Medical Simulation Training Center on Fort Drum gives “realistic medical training” to medical and non-medical soldiers, the news release states.
EMS Day will be held from 8 a.m. until 4 p.m. March 2 at the Bridgewater-Vaccaro Medical Simulation Training Center, Building p-1000, Nash Boulevard on Fort Drum.
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