MATC Training Brings Oak Creek Programs Together
Students training to be police officers, firefighters and paramedics responded to a mock car crash Thursday.
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A training exercise ongoing at Milwaukee Area Technical College provides a pretty good glimpse at what goes on at the Oak Creek campus.
The situation is this: a (fake) person fell out of a tree and had to be hospitalized, which put nursing students to work. After he got out, he got his hair done, got some cosmetic services, saw a dietician. All things taken care of by students in those particular fields.
On his way home, however, he got into a car accident, which was staged Thursday on the west end of the campus, 6665 S. Howell Ave.
Students training to become police officers, firefighters and paramedics responded. The crash required extrication of two mannequins, a car fire that needed extinguishing, CPR and a police investigation.
The person -- played ably by a talking mannequin -- will later have complications in the hospital and die, necessitating the work of students training in the funeral services field.
The exercise shows how the MATC programs work together and helps build collaboration among disciplines, officials said.
Thursday's two-hour training also included two Oak Creek paramedics who lent their services and an ambulance.
Dan Vitek
11:10 am on Friday, April 27, 2012
They need to start training welders , machinest tool & die sinkers & pattern makers . The industeral base in Milwaukeeis crying for that kind of help .
Mark Schaaf
5:31 pm on Friday, April 27, 2012
believe they have all three of those programs. I know they have tool & die and welding at least.
J
11:13 am on Saturday, April 28, 2012
I think he means that they need to have a high stage of learning then just the basics. A company I know of interviewed a number of MATC welding students only to be turned away because MATC only taught them so much (under qualified).
I hope MATC will be starting a Paramedic soon because the surrounding fire department communities in Milwaukee County made them aware/ complained that fire departments are hiring students out side of the Milwaukee area. For example students from WCTC, local fire departments want to hire from with in the community but they cannot because of what MATC is not offering right now.
Paramedic is going to be a general requirement for most fire department jobs now days since most 95% of the calls is for EMS.
I am a MATC Fire Academy student now, and I really do not want to travel to WCTC or Gateway Colleges just to learn how to become a Paramedic when I could do it at MATC if they offered it.
This can be your next story in why MATC does not have the Paramedic program.