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Two-Year Recertification for Any Current Advanced Wilderness First Aid Certificate
This efficient and affordable no-travel WAFA/AWFA refresher updates your wilderness medicine know-how, refreshes your hands-on skills & recertifies you for two years.
ELIGIBILITY: Any AWFA/WAFA certificate which is current or expired no more than one year ago.
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Two Full Years of Unlimited Access From Date of Purchase
Frequently-Asked Questions
No-Travel Practical Skills Refresher
Review patient assessment techniques plus spinal stabilization, splinting, tourniquets, compression bandaging and more.
Demonstrate your patient assessment, physical exam & other hands-on practical skills via Zoom with your volunteer patient & get live individual feedback from our U.S.-based licensed medical faculty.
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
Widely-Accepted 2-Year WAFA Recertification
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!