About Us
Education in Medical Emergencies (EME) is an Emory undergraduate student organization dedicated to educating the public, in particular the Emory and Atlanta communities, in how to respond to medical emergencies. Students use their training in various life-saving techniques to engage the community in learning basic medical emergency procedures.
Our Events and Programs
Two Step CPR
About 90% of people who suffer an out-of-the-hospital heart attack die. CPR can significantly increase a victim's chance of survival; therefore, increasing the number of people trained in CPR is crucial to raising survival rates. Hands-only CPR, which has been shown to be as effective as conventional CPR, is easy to perform and just as easy to teach. Arming every day civilians with the skills to perform hands-only CPR in emergency situations to buy time until emergency medical services arrive could save lives!
National Two Step CPR is an annual one-day event aimed at teaching the public hands-only CPR. In collaboration with the National Two Step CPR board and the nonprofit organization HealthCorps, EME hosts this event every year to educate the Atlanta community on the benefits of compressions-only CPR. Over the past two years, EME has trained 317 individuals at Texas Two Step CPR, and a total of 380 individuals overall.
EME hosts additional CPR training sessions throughout the year. If you would like EME to teach hands-only CPR to your group, please email us at [email protected].
Save a Life Week
Save a Life Week (SLW) is an annual weeklong series of events at Emory in the spring. Throughout the week, EME hosts free CPR trainings and seminars to educate the public on a variety of basic emergency medicine topics. In the past, we have held lectures on substance misuse, suicide prevention, allergy and anaphylaxis, and excessive bleeding.
Monthly Seminars
Our monthly seminars bring expert guest speakers to speak on a variety of topics in first aid and basic emergency medicine to the Emory community. In the past, we have brought in speakers such as Dr. Bryan McNally to lecture on CPR and Drs. Amy Sherman and David Serota to lecture on opioid overdoses.
About 90% of people who suffer an out-of-the-hospital heart attack die. CPR can significantly increase a victim's chance of survival; therefore, increasing the number of people trained in CPR is crucial to raising survival rates. Hands-only CPR, which has been shown to be as effective as conventional CPR, is easy to perform and just as easy to teach. Arming every day civilians with the skills to perform hands-only CPR in emergency situations to buy time until emergency medical services arrive could save lives!
National Two Step CPR is an annual one-day event aimed at teaching the public hands-only CPR. In collaboration with the National Two Step CPR board and the nonprofit organization HealthCorps, EME hosts this event every year to educate the Atlanta community on the benefits of compressions-only CPR. Over the past two years, EME has trained 317 individuals at Texas Two Step CPR, and a total of 380 individuals overall.
EME hosts additional CPR training sessions throughout the year. If you would like EME to teach hands-only CPR to your group, please email us at [email protected].
Save a Life Week
Save a Life Week (SLW) is an annual weeklong series of events at Emory in the spring. Throughout the week, EME hosts free CPR trainings and seminars to educate the public on a variety of basic emergency medicine topics. In the past, we have held lectures on substance misuse, suicide prevention, allergy and anaphylaxis, and excessive bleeding.
Monthly Seminars
Our monthly seminars bring expert guest speakers to speak on a variety of topics in first aid and basic emergency medicine to the Emory community. In the past, we have brought in speakers such as Dr. Bryan McNally to lecture on CPR and Drs. Amy Sherman and David Serota to lecture on opioid overdoses.
Our History
Education in Medical Emergencies was founded in 2018 by a group of Emory undergraduates interested in public health and emergency medicine. Our founder Linda Li, who was formerly the co-president of the Emory Pre-Medical Association, was contacted in December 2017 to organize the National Texas Two Step CPR event in Atlanta. After hosting the event in Cumberland Mall in February 2018, Linda realized the need for more educational events like the Texas Two Step CPR on Emory's campus. A team of dedicated students worked together to expand this vision of bringing education in medical emergencies to the Emory community throughout the year, and hence Education in Medical Emergencies was born.
Our founders, from left to right: Linda Li (19C), Jordan Pincus (19C), Yujin Kim (20C)