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Recertify any current or grace-period Wilderness First Responder Certificate!
This efficient and affordable no-travel WFR & Wilderness EMT refresher taught by ER doctors updates your wilderness medicine know-how, refreshes your hands-on skills & recertifies you for two years.
ELIGIBILITY: Any WFR or W-EMT certificate which is current or expired no more than one year ago.
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Choose Your WFR Recertification Format
100% ONLINE
Wilderness First Responder Recertification
+ Skills Assessment via Live Group Zoom
16 hours self-paced online study + instructor-evaluated hands-on skills demonstrations via live Zoom - EVERY SATURDAY at 1 PM ET!
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WFR Recertification Highlights
No-Travel Hands-On Wilderness First Aid Skills Refresher
Demonstrate hands-on wilderness first aid skills using a friend, family, or coworker as a volunteer patient
Get instructor review & feedback via live Zoom or video/photo submissions
Covers patient assessment/physical exam + splints, tourniquets, compression bandages, spinal injuries and more.
Wilderness First Aid Curriculum
Via self-paced online classes, interactive video scenarios, medical case assignments, knowledge checks & quizzes
Injury assessment & basic life support
Learn how to identify life-threatening injuries or illnesses, and what to do about them until EMS can get there: from breathing problems like asthma to heart attacks, choking, broken bones, head, neck & spine injuries, seizures, gastrointestinal illness, and much more.
Common medical problems
Weather emergencies, natural disasters & outdoor recreation and work increase the risk of muscle strains and sprains, severe burns, bleeding wounds, waterborne and insect-borne illness, impalements and amputations, cold injuries, heat illness, lightning, drowning, altitude illness & more.
Wildlife attacks & treating injuries
Learn to assess and stabilize bite and sting injuries from bears, mountain lions; snakes & scorpions; yellow jackets, bees, spiders and other venomous animals & insects plus rabies prevention & communicable diseases spread through floods and open water.
Terrain, temperature & weather hazards
Heat & cold related injuries; wildfires, lightning & burns; floods, tides & drowning; avalanches & earthquakes; acute mountain & altitude sickness (AMS, HACE, HAPE)
Basic outdoor survival skills
Route, logistics & supplies planning; avoiding getting lost, signaling for rescue; finding and treating water for safe drinking, maximizing chances of being found alive
Plus advanced Circulatory, Respiratory, Soft Tissue Injury, Musculoskeletal Injury, Spinal Injury & Medical-Legal Modules
Test your knowledge with realistic wilderness emergency scenarios
Practice the same SOAP (subjective, objective, assessment, plan) protocol used in medical emergencies around the world
Includes Survival Med Webinars
Widely-Accepted 2-Year WFR Recertification
Includes upgrade to Wilderness EMT students who already hold a current state or NREMT license.
Accepted by National Park Service, USDA Forest Service, National Assn for Search & Rescue, ACA/PaddleSports (American Canoe), mountain rescue teams, ski/beach patrol, SAR teams, local Sierra Club chapters, guide & expedition businesses & many others
NOTE: As a matter of policy, federal & state agencies do not endorse specific wilderness medicine schools or programs.
Extra Resources—At No Extra Cost
Optional free enrollment in Univ. of Utah's Associate in Wilderness Medicine advanced certification program—only through Survival Med!
Free access to 50+ hours of advanced wilderness medicine podcasts—from knocked-out teeth to SAR incident command protocols & more!