Take a few minutes and visit the Registry's website and review the various pages for some background.
When the Registry was formed, these were the guys who were forward thinking and aggressive. They had the knowledge, brains, and common sense to know you didn't have to be a doctor to make a difference out in the field. In fact, they concurred with the statement to never let a regular Doc pull you out of a wreck if you didn't want to be hurt worse.
They were talking about femoral sticks and standing orders for cardiacs, etc., rather than all instructions coming via radio. This was in the early 70's.
Deke Farrington was with the Chicago committee on Trauma of the Amer. College of Surgeons and started the training course at Chicago F.D. He retired to Minoqua, Wi., and started a rescue squad there. He defined disaster as anything that exceeded your resources.
Norm McSwain who teaches at Tulane and is the trauma surgeon for New Orleans PD is a legend in the Emergency Field. Can't remember for sure, but he might have been medical director for one of the racing circuits, USAC, CART,???
George Hyatt was an orthopedics man out of George Washington Univ. We had just started a meeting at O'hare or Columbus when George called to tell Deke he couldn't make it. Deke said George told him he couldn't say anything but to check the paper tomorrow for info. He took off the Kennedy boy's leg.
Roger White is a cardiac anesthesiologist at Mayo's who has been medical director of Gold Cross amb., now owned by Mayo's, for about 30 yrs. He has been a leading force in automatic defib. units. I was eating dinner at Micheal's restaurant in Rochester several years ago when fellow at table at other end of room went face down in his dinner with a coronary. In less than 30 seconds, a Rochester cop was hauling ass through the front door, defib. in hand. Two more cops were there within a minute, and then the FD and ambulance crews within about 2 minutes.
If it's on the leading edge now as back then, the Registry offers opportunities to learn as well as to make contacts if you would want to switch jobs.