WILDERNESS EMT
Care where the ambulance can't go.
Standard EMS education assumes short transport times, full kit, and online medical control. The wilderness assumes none of that. This 60-hour hybrid program teaches the principles of care in austere wilderness environments — assessment, treatment, improvisation, and evacuation decision-making when definitive care is hours or days away.
Wilderness EMS is not a sideline for F2L Health: our lead instructor owned and operated CDS Outdoor School for 20 years, teaching wilderness EMS courses around the world.
WHO IT’S FOR
Providers holding current EMS certification / licensure or another healthcare license.
WHAT YOU’LL MASTER
Patient assessment and prolonged care in austere settings
Environmental emergencies: heat, cold, altitude, lightning, and submersion
Wound care, musculoskeletal injury, and improvised splinting
Improvised carries, litters, and evacuation decision-making
Medical-legal and scope considerations in the wilderness context
THE COURSE AT A GLANCE
60 hours · hybrid: self-paced online + in-person field labs
Taught at your location or in locations around Maine (in-person component)
SUGGESTED PAIRINGS
Maximize a single training trip by combining courses:
WEMT + Combat POCUS: the combined program gives the WEMT some extra tools to triage evacuation priority and provider better management of skin and soft-tissue infection in austere environments.
CME & CEH ACCREDITATION
ACCME and Maine EMS CEH Accreditation pending.
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.
WEMT
Tier 1 - Contact us for current pricing
Tier 2 - Team of 4 students - contact us for current pricing
Tier 3 - Contact us for current pricing
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Bring This Course to Your Team
Courses are scheduled on demand and delivered at your location or in Bangor, Maine.