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ADVenture 2012 – Emergency Medical Service

ADVenture 2012 is a National Venturer Scout Jamboree that will be held at the Haliburton Scout Reserve in Ontario between June 30 and July 07, 2012.
 

MedVent Roundtable

MedVent Roundtable 2012
Saturday January 7, 2012 saw over 30 MedVent youth and advisors from across Canada, Halifax to Edmonton, gather at York EMS Headquarters in Newmarket ON for the first ever MedVent Roundtable. The goal of the day was to meet other MedVents; discuss the MedVent program and how we can make it better.

MedVent Youths Attends MedVent Rountable

Youth at MedVents Roundtable 2012
On Saturday, January 7, 2011, MedVents from all across Canada got together to discuss anything and everything related to the program. During the event, we were able to go to a separate boardroom, where we were given the opportunity to speak freely with other youth members in the program.
 

166th Blue Quill Scout Group adds a MedVent program.

Congratulations to our newest member to the Medical Venturer (MedVent) family. The 166th Blue Quill Scouts, located in Edmonton Alberta, have added a Medical Venture Company to their Scout Group in the fall of 2011.
 

MedVents at Pacific Jamboree 2011 (PJ'11)

MedVents from across Canada are helping out at the Pacific Jamboree 2011, taking place on the Sunshine Coast of British Columbia.  Check out the excellent news published on the jamboree site at pj2011.ca

In particular, the MedVents were featured in the video published by The Shire Nightly News 2011 on July 10. 

 

For your enjoyment, here is the Youtube video:

MedVent and MedRover Program Ideas

Radios

Invited guest Dispatcher for EMS, 911, or someone very familiar with radio protocols for emergency medical service:

  • Public versus Private bands
  • Proper radio protocols – what you can say, how to say it and what you can never say (confidential, inappropriate, malicious)
  • beyond 10-4, the 10 codes used by your EMS partner
  • The use of the phonetic alphabet (Alpha, Bravo, Charlie . . )
  • Medical scenarios with radios to reinforce learning

 

Does your group have a MOU?

 

The Following is from a memo sent to all Council Commissioners and CED's in 2008

 
For many years Scouts Canada has successfully partnered with a variety of public safety agencies to provide Theme Based, or as it was previously know Vocational Venturering, opportunities for Canadian youth. A highly visible example of the success of these programs was the 80 MedVents that provided professional quality emergency medical service for us at CJ07.