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designed for trip leaders, Outdoor Guides and anyone travelling in remote areas
Over five days, this course focuses on patient assessment, stabilisation, treatment and evacuation decisions in backcountry environments, where medical help may be delayed. You’ll practise hands-on skills, work through realistic scenarios, manage longer-term patient care, and develop leadership and teamwork in small groups.
This course may also be used to recertify a Wilderness First Responder
Course Structure
This course combines theoretical lectures with hands-on sessions to train practical skills. Each day is a mix of classroom, skills sessions, scenarios, and case studies. There is both a written & practical exam at the end of the course. All participants will be learn by taking turns being “patients” and “rescuers” each day. We use fake blood to make the scenarios more realistic. The fake blood is washable, but you might have to wash twice.
What can you expect of us?
Dynamic instructors with lots of backcountry and first aid experience
Lots of time outside with realistic scenarios
Daily feedback from our instructors
Intense AND rewarding days
A written and a practical exam at the end of the course that we will do everything we can to help you develop the skills to perform well. You need to pass both the written and the practical tests to receive the internationally recognised NOLS Wilderness Medicine WAFA certification.
A curriculum that is evidence-based, not just copied out of a textbook. We teach wilderness medicine practices and protocols that are supported by a physician-based medical advisory panel and disseminated by our curriculum director. This means you're getting the latest findings and protocols in the industry.