Eric Gopen

Gopen’s innovative teaching idea, “Emergency Medical Technician,” focuses on providing students with the opportunity to earn a national registry EMT certification that can be used to work on an ambulance anywhere in the country. With the Voya grant, students will learn about the human body and how to handle medical and traumatic emergencies. They will learn about the Emergency Medical Services system by becoming an active participant and will apply classroom knowledge in the field by treating actual patients. Class lectures will provide the base on which students will build their emergency treatment skills. Psychomotor skills practice will teach students to appropriately touch and communicate with the patients they will encounter in the real world, riding along with certified EMTs and paramedics as well as meeting with people in special populations outside of the general public.