Beaver Island EMTs attend regional emergency medical conference, 1988

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Event

Date: 1988-05-06
Kind: Medical
Where: Beaver Island
Eras: Modern era
Concepts: healthcareemergency-managementeducationcommunitycommunication
Within: Beaver Island

Summary

The June 1988 Beaver Beacon reports that Joe Moore and Bill Markey attended a May 6 emergency medical conference in Petoskey and received 16 credits. It also describes continuing EMT training and identifies island residents with EMT or advanced cardiac life support training.

Evidence limits

This is a newspaper account of training and qualifications; current licenses, course records, and medical-service protocols require official documentation.

Sources

“Emergency Medical Service (EMS),” Beaver Beacon, June 1988.
Reports Joe Moore and Bill Markey attending Northern Michigan’s first EMS conference in Petoskey on May 6, receiving 16 credits, Jerry Sowa’s EMT-Specialist study, and the island’s EMT and advanced-cardiac-life-support roster. The holding institution's portal restricts automated access; the archive holds a copy of this issue and can provide it on request.
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Beaver Beacon, June 1988, held issue PDF, source scan.
The held twenty-page June issue PDF is paired with the canonical OCR source.
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Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island EMTs attend regional emergency medical conference, 1988”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-ems-training-and-conference-1988/, accessed [date], citing “Emergency Medical Service (EMS),” Beaver Beacon, June 1988. (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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