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State & Local
Page 2
The Battalion
Wednesday, September 4,1991
TED W. ALBRACHT/The Battalion
Come and get it!
Dr. Earley, small animal intern, plays with his chocolate labrador during a
work break by a construction site at the College of Veterinary Medicine.
EMS work
rewarding,
chief says
By John Lose
The Battalion
The chief of Texas A&M's
Emergency Medical Services en
joys his work, but hesitates to call
it a "fun" job.
"I enjoy the opportunity to
help people, and getting out and
interacting with students," Dud
ley Wait says. "The fast pace is ex
citing, but sometimes people look
at you a little weird when you de
scribe a job like this as being a lot
of fun."
Wait says a person can literal
ly walk in off the street and be
come a member of the emergency
care team, just like he did six years
ago.
"We have a lot of people who
come in with no training at all," he
says.
To become involved in EMS, a
student would first join a student
organization called the Emergency
Care Team.
"The first semester you would
undergo CPR and standard first-
aid training," Wait says. "After
RICHARD S. JAMES/The Battalion
Brian Bersano, a junior biomedical EMS dispatch room in the basement
sciences major, takes a call in the of A. P. Beutel Health Center.
being certified in those areas, you
would be able to undertake emer
gency medical technician's train
ing and then begin working for
the EMS."
New team members begin by
dispatching calls for the EMS to
better learn how the team operates
and also what personnel and
equipment are needed for certain
kinds of calls.
They move up to working in a
third-person position in an ambu
lance, and then as ambulance
drivers or operators. After certifi
cation as an EMT, serving as a
driver or operator, and a few more
classes, the person can be certified
as an EMT-intermediate and then
an EMT-paramedic.
"What you learn in the class
room and what you learn on the
street are a little different," Wait
says. "So we really try to train
people long and hard to make up
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B-CS adopts A&M hospitality training program
By Karen Praslicka
The Battalion
"Howdy!" might soon be
heard not only across Texas
A&M, but also throughout Bryan
and College Station in an effort to
increase community hospitality
toward visitors through the Hos
pitality Training Program begin
ning this month.
This is the first time the three-
year-old program has been used
in the community with a large,
organized group of local partici
pants.
A&M's Department of Recre
ation, Parks and Tourism devel
oped the program after working
with a state-wide task force two
years ago.
The task force found that there
was a desire by service-industry
businesses to train their employ
ees to increase the quality of ser
vice they provided.
Service industries include ho
tels and motels, restaurants,
convenience stores
and department
stores.
Su
s a n n a
Coppernoll,
state-wide coordi
nator of the program,
said members of the A&M
department realized they did not
have the resources to train all ser
vice employees in Texas, so they
decided to develop a program to
train instructors across the state to
teach managers and employees in
the service industry in their own
communities.
"We've trained people as far
west as El Paso, as far south as
Padre Island, as far north as
Amarillo and as far east as
Texarkana," she said.
The program is promoted in
different cities through visitor bu
reaus, county agents and cham
bers of commerce.
Coppernoll said the idea of the
program is for the participating
city to enhance the quality of ser
vice available, and become a
friendlier community to live in
and visit.
"When you provide better ser
See Training/Page 8
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