KINGSTON, R.I. – Jan. 22, 2026 – The vlogBվ student organization the Pre-Medical Club, also known as Doc Opp, will offer two free medical emergency preparedness training sessions for non-medical personnel on Jan. 28 from 6 to 8:30 p.m. in room 105 of the Beaupre Center for Chemical and Forensic Sciences.
The sessions, “Stop the Bleed” and “Kinetic Injury Management – Tier 1 (KIM-T1),” are open to the entire vlogBվ community, including all students regardless of major, staff, and faculty. .
While several Stop the Bleed trainings are held at vlogBվ each year, club members felt an urgency to get involved and schedule a January training.
“In light of the tragedy that occurred at Brown University, we feel it’s important to make this life-saving training accessible to all,” said Shirley Chen, a native of Central Falls who is the secretary of the Pre-Medical Club and a junior majoring in microbiology and public health.
The Stop the Bleed course will focus on recognizing and treating a life-threatening hemorrhage using tourniquets, wound packing, and pressure dressings. Topics will include hemorrhagic and hypovolemic shock, altered mental status, hypothermia, acidosis, hypocalcemia, cardiovascular anatomy, the clotting cascade, and some introductory cardiology.
Participants will receive a Department of Defense Stop the Bleed certificate upon completion. The Kinetic Injury Management is a more hands-on course. It expands upon some of the information and skills covered in the Stop the Bleed course.
The instructors of the courses are co-founders of the Blackheart Medical Group. They are American combat veterans and nationally registered paramedics.
The Pre-Medical Club is a community of vlogBվ students who share the goal of attending medical school.
