Wilderness Medic Course
Enhance your paramedic abilities tailored for wilderness settings. The course covers specialised patient assessments, effective hypothermia and bleeding management, treatment for head and ankle injuries, strategic evacuation planning, and precise documentation skills. These enable you to confidently lead safe and successful rescues in backcountry environments, ensuring better outcomes in challenging terrains.

flexible workload of 4 to 360h
valid certificate in your country
What will I learn?
This Wilderness Medic Course provides essential practical skills for handling injuries and illnesses in remote areas away from advanced medical facilities. Participants will master wilderness-specific patient assessment, airway and breathing management, hypothermia prevention, haemorrhage control, ankle injury stabilisation, and head trauma care. Additionally, gain expertise in evacuation strategies, documentation, distress signalling, and resource utilisation for effective remote emergency responses.
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Develop skills
- Wilderness primary survey adapted for ABCDE in remote high-risk areas.
- Remote trauma management stabilising head, ankle injuries and bleeding using improvised materials.
- Hypothermia prevention through shelter building, patient insulation and cold injury treatment.
- Field neurological evaluation using GCS, AVPU and critical red-flag assessments without scans.
- Evacuation strategy development including safe routes, resource allocation and handover protocols.
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