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Student Emergency Medical Services (SEMS) is a student organization first formed at the University of Colorado at Boulder in the fall of 2004 with the goal of preventing alcohol related injury among the student body. This goal is achieved by providing licensed emergency medical technicians to student and university sponsored events, peer-to-peer education about the dangers of binge drinking, and alcohol/drug emergency preparedness training for student and university groups.

Following the formation of SEMS, a foundation was created to spread the idea of SEMS to other universities. SEMS foundation is currently in the process of creating a second chapter at Colorado State University

History
This is the history of Student Emergency Medical Services (SEMS).

University of Colorado at Boulder
This is the first chapter.

Colorado State University
This is the chapter in Fort Collins, CO at Colorado State University (CSU). There were initially a number of setbacks in organizing the CSU chapter due to confusion about whether the group would be run by the university or by students. There were also difficulties in finding a licensed medical director for the program.