Duke University EMS records, 1995-2021

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Summary

Creator:
Duke University Emergency Medical Services (Student organization) and Duke University. University Archives
Abstract:
Duke University Emergency Medical Services began as Duke University Rescue Squad in 1994 as a student-run medical service provider at events on campus. This collection contains proposals, photographs, newspaper clippings, handwritten notes on the history of DUEMS, and a scrapbook.
Extent:
1.5 Linear Feet
Language:
Materials in English.
Collection ID:
UA.31.13.0009
University Archives Record Group:
31 -- Student/Campus Life
31 -- Student/Campus Life > 13 -- Student Organizations - Service

Background

Scope and content:

Collection contains proposals, photographs, newspaper clippings, handwritten notes on the history of DUEMS, and a scrapbook.

Biographical / historical:

"Duke University [Emergency Medical Services] was founded by Matt Womble, Tim Pieh, and Sacha Picard. These three students had volunteered as Emergency Medical Technicians at home and saw a need for improved EMS response at Duke. These three students began working with administrators in 1993 to form a student-run rescue squad.

Duke University Rescue Squad, as it was originally known, began serving the Duke community by providing stand-by coverage for basketball games in the spring of 1994. By 1995, Duke Rescue had expanded to responding to emergency calls. Members were dispatched by pager and responded on foot. In the same year, the first EMT-Basic class was taught on campus by Duke LifeFlight. Campus response was improved in 1996 when Duke University EMS purchased six Motorola Radios, allowing EMTs to communicate with each other, Durham Country EMS, and police officers.

In 2003, under the new name of Duke University EMS, the squad shifted from operating under Student Affairs to becoming a division of the Duke University Police Department.

After being out of service since August 2017, Duke University EMS resumed operations under Duke Life Flight's medical oversight beginning in Fall 2018, providing event medicine services for Duke Football and Basketball."

Historical note adapted from Duke University EMS website, https://www.dukeems.org/what-we-do (accessed September 09, 2024)

Acquisition information:
The Duke University EMS records were received by the University Archives as a gift in 2024.
Processing information:

Processed by April Blevins, September 2024

Accession described in this collection guide: UA2024-0026

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

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Copyright for official university records is held by Duke University; all other copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.

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[Identification of item], Duke University EMS records, Duke University Archives, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University.

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