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By Marianne Hudson
THE BATTALION
The alarm goes off. Quickly wak
ing, they flee from the comfort of their
bunk beds.
These are not students late for their
8 a.m. classes, they are Emergency
Medical Services (EMS) volunteers
who spend their days and nights antic
ipating and responding to on-campus
emergency phone calls.
EMS workers, who are on duty 20
to 40 hours per week, devote a signif
icant part of their schedules to the
“squad room,” located on the second
floor of A.P. Beutel Health Center. It
has become a second home to many,
furnished with bunkbeds, couches and
a refrigerator.
“Half of the time, we don’t sleep
in our beds nearly as often as we
sleep here,” said Jennifer Shoemaker,
an emergency medical technician
(EMT) and a senior speech commu
nications major.
While on duty, EMTs are responsi
ble for handling virtually any emer
gency call they receive. Sports and
bicycle accidents top the list of on-
campus emergencies, followed by
general-illness calls, such as
headaches and stomach pains.
However, calls regarding alcohol
are not filtered through the University
Police Department (UPD), but are
instead referred to as “sick calls.” By
abandoning the former filtration
process, UPD does not know if a stu
dent is being taken to the hospital
because of alcohol-related illness.
This prevents the University from con
tacting a student’s parents and makes
it more likely that students properly
handle this type of emergency.
EMS ambulances, which take
sick students to the hospital or
health center of their choice, are free
of charge, as they have been includ
ed in student fees. This service ben
efits students because hospital
ambulance rides generally cost
around $300.
While in the ambulance, EMS
workers administer a variety of proce
dures, ranging from setting a broken
finger to reviving a heart attack victim.
“Patients are usually in our care
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for a very short amount of time,”
said Sarah Sweeney, an EMT and a
sophomore biology major. “It is our
job to make them feel as comfort
able as possible.”
Student EMS workers devote their
time on a voluntary basis. Around 13
people apply each year. There is a for
mal interview process, and applicants
enter two months of training as soon
as they are accepted. During this time,
students gain hands-on experience,
such as learning how to drive the
ambulance. Once the training period
is completed, students receive the title
of Medic 2. After a year, they have the
option of being promoted to Medic 1,
which is the head medic. Workers are
not paid, but gain a different kind of
reward from the experience.
Many students originally chose
to work as EMS workers for the
medical training.
“I have always wanted to work in
the medical field,” said Rebecca
Debrecht, an EMS volunteer and a
senior community health major. “I
started working here for the experi
ence of working with patients.”
However, the benefits of being an
EMS worker are much more than just
technical expertise.
“We are a close-knit family,”
Shoemaker said of her relationship
with the 50 other workers.
Shoemaker said tragedy brings this
family even closer together.
“In instances such as Bonfire, our
service was affected as a whole,” she
said. “Some students went into
denial — others, depression.
Personally, I felt I hadn’t done
enough, [but] we supported each
other during that tragic time.”
A&M EMS workers said they
empathize with the EMS workers in
New York.
“There are college EMS in New
York doing what we do, and my heart
goes out to them,” Shoemaker said.
In light of the New York tragedies,
EMS workers will receive recogni
tion for saving lives during Collegiate
EMS Week, which will be held dur
ing the week of Nov. 11 to 17. During
this week, EMS workers will be pres
ent at Rudder Fountain and events
will focus on making students more
aware of the EMS program.
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