After school on March 7, the Future Medical Careers club hosted the Stop the Bleed program. The course was taught by teachers and students from JEL.

Juniors Lainey Deetz and Aaliyah Mitchell co-founded the Future Medical Careers Club in September. The club meets the first Thursday of every month.

In the club, members work on projects for the healthcare community, make cards for patients and have specialists come in to speak.

“Aaliyah and I are both interested in the medical field and we wanted to create a place where anybody else interested in the medical field at North Central could learn more about it,” Deetz said.

Deetz heard about the Stop the Bleed course from the Pre Med club at Brebeuf. She reached out to the presidents of the Brebeuf club and was able to provide the course to students in the Future Medical Careers Club at NC.

“I thought it was a great opportunity for students in the club to learn about realistic skills necessary for those in the medical field as well as just in everyday life,” Deetz said.

Stop the Bleed is a course dedicated to teaching techniques about saving lives and responding in emergency situations.

The instructors of the course taught the students how to stop bleeding, apply a tourniquet, call 911 properly, stay on the line and make sure the emergency scene is safe. They also talked about Fentanyl poisoning and how to give Narcan to people who have a suspected overdose.

Senior Emily Hedlund helped teach the Stop the Bleed Course. Hedlund is a second-year in JEL so her teacher felt confident bringing in the second-years to teach Stop the Bleed.

“It’s important because everyone needs to know the information,” Hedlund said, “If you’re on a scene or in an emergency situation, it’s important to know basic first aid.”

Junior Maya Montgomery-Valdez heard about the Future Medical Careers Club through her friends. She joined because she is interested in the medical field.

“I found it really interesting and like that the people teaching me the course were my age,” Montgomery-Valdez said, “My favorite part was when we got to practice treating an injury on other people. I had a lot of fun.”

The Stop the Bleed course at the Future Medical Careers club meeting gave students an opportunity to learn and have hands-on experience with treating medical injuries in emergency situations.