Applied Combat Medic Skills
An emergency critical care program for TCCC-certified CMC and CPP providers and those with equivalent training.
Proficiency in Tactical Combat Casualty Care is essential for identifying and managing immediate life threats — and TCCC training is now widespread across the military. But training alone does not equal readiness. Many certified providers have little real-world experience applying these skills under pressure. True competence develops through repetition: initial TCCC instruction lays the foundation; supervised drilling and ongoing reinforcement make performance reliable when it counts.
Applied Combat Medic Skills trains physicians, physician associates, nurse practitioners, nurses, and other medical and non-medical personnel who hold current TCCC CMC or CPP certification (and those with equivalent training) to perform urgent and emergency care procedures using the same equipment they will carry in the tactical environment. Through skills drills and scenario-based learning, the course emphasizes hands-on procedural performance — and every participant leaves with self-guided resources to maintain proficiency after the course ends.
WHO IT’S FOR
Medical personnel holding current TCCC CMC or CPP certification or with equivalent training: physicians, PAs, NPs, nurses, medics, and team members.
WHAT YOU’LL MASTER
Body substance isolation
One- and two-hand ratchet and windlass tourniquet application
Wound packing and pressure bandage application
Hemostatic wound closure
Axillary, neck, and inguinal junctional hemorrhage control — improvised and commercial tools
XStat deployment
Nasopharyngeal airway insertion; one- and two-person bag-valve-mask
Manual and mechanical suction
Supraglottic airway insertion and cricothyrotomy
Chest seal placement and needle chest decompression
Hypothermia prevention and treatment
Penetrating eye injury management and burn care
Splint application
Establishing casualty collection points
IV / IO vascular access; fluid and blood warming devices
Medication administration: intranasal, IM, and intravascular routes
Patient evacuation
Litter handling
THE COURSE AT A GLANCE
2 days · 16 hours of in-person, hands-on lab sessions
Accredited for 16 hours of ACCME Category 1 CME
Maximum 4:1 student-to-instructor ratio
Taught at your location or in Bangor, Maine
Participants receive self-guided training materials to maintain proficiency and, depending on enrollment tier, equipment and supplies.
Can pair with Combat POCUS for a comprehensive tactical medicine program
SUGGESTED PAIRINGS
Maximize a single training trip by combining courses:
ACMS + Combat POCUS: the combined program can be taught over two 10-hour days
ACMS + RESONATE: A three day course that prepares the student for assessing and managing critical patients
ACMS + Ventilator Management for Critical Patients: A three day course that prepares the student for ongoing management and transport of critically ill patients
CME & CEH ACCREDITATION
ACMS is accredited for 16 hours of ACCME (AMA) Category 1 credit and, when combined with C-POCUS, 20 hourse of ACCME Category 1 credit and 20 hours of Maine EMS Trauma CEH.
PRICING
Our instructional philosophy is simple: you’re not buying a course, you’re buying a training program. When you take an F2L training, you get your initial training to achieve mastery and a comprehensive training program designed to maintain your skills once you leave the classroom.
Being able to practice your learning means that you need to have both a longitudinal training program and the equipment in hand to execute that program. Without that equipment, your skills will decay.
Given that, then only real question for any student in deciding what tier of each class to take is what equipment you need to execute the training plan after the class. The class tiers are set up as follows:
Tier 1 - The individual student who needs it all. Each student will leave the classroom with all of the training equipment necessary to perform all the longitudinal training exercises on their own in additional to the longitudinal training program content.
Tier 2 - The team who needs it all. If you work with a team that only needs a single set of training gear for a specific number of students, this is the tier for you. The courses are priced for a specific number of students sharing one set of training gear. If you would like a different ratio of students to sets of training gear, contact us for pricing.
Tier 3 - For those who already have it all. If you have the training gear already, this tier gives you the initial class and the longitudinal training program content; you bring your own training gear to the exercises.
ACMS Pricing
Tier 1 - $7,500 / student
Tier 2 - Team of 5 students - $26,500 ($5,300 / student)
Tier 3 - $4,750 / student
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Bring This Course to Your Team
Courses are scheduled on demand and delivered at your location or in Bangor, Maine.