The University of Toronto Emergency First Responders (UTEFR) is a Campus Emergency Response Team in Downtown Toronto. We have a passion for promoting and practicing first aid. Knowing first aid can save lives! Our mission is to instill confidence in first aid treatment, to make first aid training readily available to the University of Toronto student body, and to provide quality pre-hospital first aid treatment on campus.
We are a team of volunteer students who are trained as First Responders who provide event medical coverage for major organized events on campus, with some seeing over 30,000 people in attendance. Originally, we were a small group of Standard First Aid and CPR-C certified engineering students, the team has grown into a much larger team including Emergency Medical Responders and paramedics, comprising from students of all disciplines.
We also run heavily discounted first aid and first responder courses for UofT students and the greater community. Our instructors are all current working medics and base the course content from practical experience and knowledge gained in the field.