Ebola In The US: Front Line Health Training Trickles Down To First-Year Med Students

When 26-year-old Hunter Smith, a first-year medical student at the University of Connecticut Health Center in Farmington, Connecticut, received an email Thursday informing him of mandatory Ebola training during the weekend, he was surprised. Required weekend trainings for students were extremely rare, Smith said, and typically happened after things like widespread blackouts or the 9/11 terrorist attacks.