Wilderness Medicine
Wilderness Medicine Courses
No matter your experience or background, learn to explore, protect, and lead others with confidence by acquiring the skills and knowledge to provide emergency response treatment in wilderness environments.
Learn the skills you need to calmly and confidently deal with an illness or injury in a remote or austere environment. Acquire life saving knowledge that will enable you to protect others and lead confidently while awaiting rescue in an emergency situation.
We provide life saving skills and knowledge that will make all the difference in a wilderness survival emergency situation, including CPR, AED, Stop the Bleed, wilderness medicine and first responder training, and wilderness EMT Bridge certification.
- Learn wilderness medicine and emergency response skills from master instructors.
- Challenge yourself physically and mentally in the wilderness.
- Practice and rely on those skills in a remote setting.
- Travel through some of the most rugged and beautiful scenery in the world.
Erik is excellent and his methods of teaching are spot on. He is VERY knowledgable and you will be in excellent care when taking this course.
We’re often asked these questions about this course...
We will personally follow up with you with three quick and easy forms for you to complete and return. We will send you a detailed course information sheet which will contain all of the applicable details that you’ll need to prepare and arrive for your training.
For all of our Wilderness Medicine Training Courses, True North will provide all of the needed training supplies. However, if you would like a better sense of what additional gear that you will need to bring on the course, or optional gear to consider, then check out the equipment list that will be included with the course information sheet when you register. When you register, we will send you the information for the required texts that you will need to prepare for the program and use during the course.
Yes! While we offer open registration courses, most of our Wilderness Medicine Training Courses are set up and run for private groups, like camp staff, colleges, and park rangers. The benefits include personalized training, tailored for specific needs, and which can be run at your location or ours.
In some ways, you will find the training and issues very similar to what you see in a front-country setting, but in most other respects, you will find it to be very different. First, you will be learning to deal with issues that you rarely find in an urban environment, like venomous bites, acute hypothermia, and lightning strikes. Also, wilderness medical care requires a greater emphasis on improvisation as you won’t have access to the equipment in your ambulance or office. In turn, the standard of care in wilderness environments may differ substantially from your state protocols. Lastly, most front-country medical providers only deal with patients for brief periods (maybe just the ambulance ride to the hospital) and in teams, but, as a WFA provider, you may need to care for your patient for hours or longer - all by yourself.
Ready for an Adventure
Because Mother Nature doesn't care about your skill level. And She doesn't just give up because you've had enough. Get the skills you need to survive and conquer any situation!
