So far, my favorite class is my Emergency Response and Management elective. It's essentially about the process of preparing for and responding to crisis events. Those include any size natural disasters (tornadoes, hurricanes, earth quakes, flood, drought, etc.), infrastructure disasters (bridge collapse, fire, etc.), terrorist attacks, etc.
The grade in the class is based on completing 4 of the FEMA training classes for emergency response (and attendance.) Because of this, the students in this class will be in the first group of people that the vet school response team will pull from for students to take to disaster response.
We're also listening to lectures about the process of preparing a community for disasters- either in their area or what they should plan to do to shelter other communities.
I'm kind of hoping that something happens during 4th year that we'll get called to respond to! I think it would be awesome!
Actually, on this topic, September is Emergency Preparedness Month! You should check out this link and make sure that you and your pets are prepared!
http://www.ready.gov/america/
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I took a FEMA course similar to that last January. Only our course focused on psychological trauma and preparation.
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