Course Overview
The authoritative austere medicine course for remote professionals and leaders who operate in low-resource, remote and other austere environments where definitive care may be severely delayed or inaccessible.
This course has no prerequisites, however requires significant prework for those with no prior medical training. Upon successful completion, participants receive certification, valid for three (3) years.
This course meets the recommended curriculum of the Wilderness Medical Education Collaborative and successful graduates will be awarded both a WFR and AFR certification.
Course Schedule
Recert students must attend four (4) days of the course. Where practical, days 3, 6, 7, and 8 are recommended. At least one simulation day is compulsory (days 5, 6, or 7).
If recert students wish to attend all 8-days, a full course should be purchased.
Day 1: General Principles, Vital Signs, Patient Assessment, BLS
Day 2: Patient Assessment (ctd), Anatomy & Physiology, Critical Systems Problems
Day 3: Lifting Moving & Extrication, The Spine Injured Patient, Litter Carries, Improvised Litters
Day 4: Musculoskeletal Injuries, Extremity Splinting, Dislocations, Simulation
Day 5: Allery & Anaphylaxis, Asthma, Wounds & Burns, Exposure Illness & Injury
Day 6: Toxins & Envenomations, Arthropod Disease Vectors, Problems with Sugar, Submersion Injury, Electricity & Lightning Injury
Day 7: General Austere Medicine, Simulation
Day 8: Medical & Rescue Equipment, Humanitarian & Austere Considerations, Elective Topics, Final Exam
