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United States

This podcast looks at American Medicine today, from medical school to career medicine. This podcast series has not yet been published as I am working to create a sufficient library, develop interview contacts, and creating new content.Why Medicine? How do you get in? The good and bad, ups and downs, challenges and successes. We'll look at it all, talk about it and get some outside ideas and opinions.

I produce videos and podcasts pertaining to combatics, tactical, remote environment and disaster medical response, product reviews and other training, mindset and lifestyle for the EMS/Fire/LE/Mil/Competition industries. Once a formidable library of media is created, I'll begin posting this content.The tactical mindset should be about protecting life. As a future doctor and current EMT, I focus a lot on saving lives, or protecting peoples' health. Other first responders and even private citizens do the same thing, just with different tools and techniques. American Combatics supports a blend of these modalities, and helps to provide an ethical and moral background behind what we do every day. I also review products with an eye toward quality, reliability and durability. While the products vary, our commitment to honest, transparent reviews does not.Stay tuned for updates on episode launch times!

Maintain A&D bound book, maintain licensure, research new products, create business relationships with distributors, testing and evaluation of products, sales.

Disaster response organization.

Disaster Response, Impact Assistance

Develop and implement curriculae for pre-school and gradeschool children. Design and direct activities and learning modules for the basics. Provide multicultural exposure in the form of language lessons, domestic and international travel. Teach basic wood/metal shop skills and safety. Teach other life skills such as archery and firearms basics and safety, first aid, piano and recorder, and culinary arts.Ensure educational criteria are being met by students, and remediate as needed.

Respond to Disasters, Assist in mass prophylaxis events.

Now that my tenure as VP of B.E.R.T. is over and I'm on to other things, I am honored to stay connected to B.E.R.T. as an advisor and mentor. B.E.R.T. is one of the most unique (yet, sadly, least celebrated) features of Bellarmine University, and dedicated members of B.E.R.T. are people I would serve with any time.

Louisville

The Bellarmine Emergency Response Team (B.E.R.T.) is a squad of collegiate EMT and first aid-trained personnel who respond to emergencies at campus and city events. Many of us are highly trained, multi-skilled responders, but we all have, at our foundation, a desire to serve. B.E.R.T. is comprised of students, run by students, but is much more than a student organization or campus club. B.E.R.T. is not a club: our primary function is not the benefit of our members. It is, instead, an organization whose focus is the benefit of our classmates, faculty, staff and visitors. We exist to serve others. We are first responders. We work on ambulances. We have the capacity to save lives. I know we're "just students", but when a serious medical emergency occurs, we, above all others on campus, are equipped and trained to handle it. B.E.R.T. is one of the school's best-kept secrets. Every college has sports teams. Very few provide the opportunity for real emergency medical experience.My Role at B.E.R.T.:Vice President and Special Operations Team Commander.-Managing Personnel: I handle recruitment, retention, scheduling, training, personnel issues, discipline.-Managing Operations: I oversee all aspects of daily operations, from ensuring our supply officer and crews have everything they need, to covering shifts for members who are late or miss a shift.-EMT: I work most events.-Fundraising and Outreach: Since we are an all-volunteer and unpaid collegiate squad, I search for fundraising opportunities to cover training and supply costs, I seek out and apply for grants and donations, and am involved in community events to help the general public, such as the Chuck Olmstead Stroke Screening Event held every year.-Training: I seek out basic and specialized training opportunities for B.E.R.T. members. I assist in training paramedics, police and other personnel in the gross anatomy lab.

Once I've traveled to some remote part of the globe, I need to do something with the images. I'm always open to travel magazines, but many of the images are perfect for art shows. So, a good friend and museum-quality picture frame moulding manufacturer and I started M-D Art International as a way to display and sell some of our original photography from around the world. What distinguishes us from everyone else is that we do every step in-house. We don't send our photos off to a printer, then to a framer.We (both of us) take the photographs, print the images on our 44" printer, cut the images, cut the mats, manufacture and finish the moulding, build the frames, and put everything together. Understand, it's not like I take the photos, send them to a printshop and then give them to my framer friend to frame. We share the workload. Every image must be printed, every piece of steel must be cut, drilled, welded, ground, finished and mounted to a wood subframe. We even cut the glass ourselves. It's an intensive multi-skilled process, but it really showcases the work in frames that are really works of art unto themselves.Our frames for this endeavor tend to fall into either the Carpathian Elm Burl Veneer/hand-laid Beligium linen mat variety or the blacked, finished-corner, welded steel frame variety. We weld and finish the steel ourselves. We also do stretched canvas giclees. We mill all the moulding in-house, apply the burl veneer in-house, and stretch our canvas by hand. When you see the finished product, you'll understand why we're different than most anyone else out there.Due to scheduling, school and so on, we've only attended one show, St. James Court Art Show, but our work is still available for sale of exhibition. We would like to do more shows in the future. We also do custom work for customers.

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I design and build various items, from swords to furniture. I will update with a more complete list of items. Seen here is a survival knife I made, partially-forged spring steel with oak handles. In this image, I am measuring for the Kydex sheath. You'll note the finish on the knife isn't smooth and pretty. It's not quite finished in this image. Since the image was made, I did leave some of the pitting because this is a personal workhorse knife, not a show knife, but I blackened the steel and cleaned up the cutting edge. I don't have the tools to make perfect blades- these are all done by hand. Bear in mind, these aren't "craft" projects. These are items designed to be used and to last.Some other items:ShelvingDVD/Video cabinet (open)Computer monitor standWorkshop workbenchHardwood butcher blockTurkish Crescent (stump fiddle)Step Stool (with no screws, glues, nails or other fasteners)Child's Desk (with no screws or nails)Converted an old, rusty fuel tank into a smoker (deadline of 2 days ahead of a wedding)Multiple Kydex holsters and knife sheathsCustom competition belts (2 of them. I had to use my old seat belt for something...)Custom lamp

PGY-3 FM resident. Goals: disaster, tactical, international and austere environment medicine. Chief resident for PGY-3 year.

This is my number one priority right now. PGY-1 resident on rotations and enjoying actually helping real people. It's hard not being able to deploy on disaster relief missions while in med school, but that time will come, and I'll be able to deploy as a doctor, and not just as an EMT.I'd love to parlay my background in EMS into a career in emergency medicine, and that's the plan, if I can get into an ER residency, but family medicine is my very close second, as much as surgery rotations are excellent and fit with my work-with-my-hands nature... any field is fine with me so long as it permits me to do the service work I want to do- and that's not just convenient resume fodder; it's long been a key component of my planned career. I work here to support the mission work out there.Interests:Emergency MedicineSurgeryTactical/Operational Medicine, ResearchDisaster/Austere Environment/High-Altitude MedicineTravel/International Medicine3rd Year Rotations Completed:Family Medicine 1 & 2PediatricsOB/GynSurgery 1 & 2Internal Medicine 1 & 2Psychiatry4th year Rotations Completed:Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Elective EM Rotation (Online)Radiology (Online)Osteopathic Principles and Practice (OPP) Clinical Rotation (Online)Emergency Medicine SelectiveResearch I (Part 1: Multiple studies involving tourniquet use in repressurized human cadavers)Emergency Medicine ElectiveUpcoming 4th Year Rotations:ENTResearch 2 (Part 2: Continuation of Part 1, with results and articles planned)Rural Health (Surgery Specialty Rotation)

Every day holds an opportunity to put our skills to the test to help people. Whether it's emergent response to provide breaths and heartbeats to a cardiac arrest patient or a calm transport from hospital-to-home, we stand ready to serve our community. As an industry, we're not well-paid for the job we do, but we don't do it for the money.---Mid-May marks the end of my work with Yellow EMS. I am on to other things! It has been a pleasure serving their customers and patients, as well as working for a company that is constantly working to improve.

Maintained plant security.Provided Emergency Medical Care to plant employees.I worked as a part-time/PRN EMT/Officer until a full-time employee could be found. I returned to school in January of 2015 for an independent study, and Securitas no longer needed me, so it worked out well for both parties that I could help them out for a few months and return to school when I needed to.

Haerbin, Heilongjiang, China

-Developed and implemented lesson plans and assessment (testing) materials -Taught spoken English to college students in classes up to 60 students -Focused on proper pronunciation and grammar, as well as developing vocabulary -Classes were comprised of students from complete beginners to relatively fluent-Lived in a local apartment block using local transport and culinary offerings

Photographing campus and city events.Editing images for publication (following best practices and standard ethical practices to ensure accurate imaging).Laying out images within the weekly publication.Writing copy and cut lines, assisting with copy editing.

Photographed events.

Selection, editing and layout of images for publication.Photography to accompany stories for publication.Copy editing, writing and other duties as needed.

Osteopathic Medicine/Osteopathy

Activities and Societies: School Organizations: Emergency Medicine Club Wilderness Medical Club DO-Cares (International Mission Work).

Ba-Flis/Min-Bio, Foreign Languages And Pre-Medicine/Pre-Medical Studies

Activities and Societies: The Concord (Newspaper):Photo Editor, Photographer, Writer, Copy Editor, Columnist Bellarmine Emergency Response.