UCF physical therapy students acted as burn patients during a training course, "Advanced Burned Life Support,"
held on Sept. 13, 2008, at Orlando Regional Medical Center. The course was designed for health-care workers and
included physicians, physician assistants, nurses, physical therapists, occupational therapists and EMT/paramedics in
the audience.

The UCF students assisted with the practical exam by being made up to look like a burn patient and acting
the part, said Jamie Dyson, a physical therapist and rehabilitation supervisor at ORMC. "They were a great help
and we could'nt have done the course without them."

Dyson said the course covered everything from fluid resuscitation, calculating total body surface area; medical
management; airway protection; and mechanisms of injury, such as electrical and chemical burns. The UCF
students were able to attend all of the lectures. "It was a lot of new material for them ... but they were able to keep
up and understood the concepts," Dyson noted.

The UCF students who assisted with the course were Jenny Bouzko, Tara Johnson, Vickie Morgan
Jenna Weaver and Allison Morse.