Active Shooter: What Would Health Care Students Do While Caring for Their Patients? Run? Hide? Or Fight?

Nicole McKenzieCarolina WishnerMartha SextonDanielle SaevigBrian FinkPaul Rega

Published in: Disaster medicine and public health preparedness (2019)

A significant majority of interprofessional health care students, when presented with specific case-scenarios, declared they would act to protect themselves and their patients during an active shooter event. This "patient-centric" attitude transcends the oversimplified "Run-Hide-Fight" axiom and must be addressed by all health care educational institutions.

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