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Participants learn to treat injuries in a humanitarian disaster simulation.

In the cold and rain, a sprawling lesson on caring

3-day humanitarian disaster simulation brings hundreds to North Andover state park

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DateMay 3, 2019May 3, 2019

Cory Scott and Betty Paulsen (not pictured) are both standardized patients at Harvard Medical School's Clinical Skills Center, which allows students to train with people acting like they are sick.

Real as a heart attack, almost

Acted-out medical conditions formative for future physicians

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DateMarch 17, 2016March 7, 2019

Sidi Bensalah (photo 1) from the Centre for Safety and Development in the Netherlands posed as a militiaman during HSPH's Humanitarian Academy exercise over the weekend. Harvard's Stephanie Kayden (photo 2) examined the field hospital. Gima Forje (photo 3), a Nigerian student in the semester-long class, first had to adjust to the sleeping quarters. “I’m today touching a tent for the first time," he said.

A taste of danger

Humanitarian aid students put training to test in simulated crisis

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DateApril 28, 2014April 16, 2019