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Wilderness & Remote Medicine

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What is Wilderness Medicine?

Wilderness medicine is generally defined as medical care provided in environments where access to definitive medical treatment is delayed by two or more hours. Many front-country settings—despite their proximity to roads or urban areas—still meet this definition due to the complexities involved in patient access and extraction. Challenging terrain, dense vegetation, and significant topographical variation can substantially extend evacuation times, making timely access to definitive care difficult even in seemingly accessible locations. 


We offer Wilderness First Aid (WFA) courses in New Jersey and Pennsylvania on a regular basis. WFA, and other courses, are offered in various locations around the United States.

Wilderness & Remote Medicine (WRM)

Prerequisite minimums for all levels are 18 years of age or older and current CPR certification.

Wilderness First Aid (WFA)

$185-$250

During this 2 day (16 hour) course you'll learn the basics of responding to emergencies in a wilderness environment on low angle terrain.  This course covers all of the skills needed to assess and extract a patient from a wilderness environment. This course is Nationally recognized and approved by all scouting organizations. This course is instructed by highly experienced Wilderness EMTs with decades of full-time experience in the field.

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Wilderness Advanced First Aid (WAFA)

$399

This 40 hour course covers in-depth knowledge on responding to incidents in a wilderness environment. You will learn patient assessment, basic patient stabilization, patient packaging, and much more!

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Wilderness First Responder (WFR)

$695

This 80 hour hybrid course consists of 40 hours in-person training and 40 hours of online/virtual training. The virtual training can be completed on your own time. The WFR course covers long term patient care and management, remote patient packaging and extraction, basic roping methods for litter travels, airway management and much more!

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Wilderness Emergency Medical Technician (WEMT)

$550

You MUST hold a current state or National EMT certification to take this course. This a 5 day (40 hours, 16 virtual, 24 in-person) module covering various topics like long term patient care & management, remote extractions, high altitude, and remote illnesses and much more!

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If you'd like to host a course or have a private course conducted for your agency, please call or email us at: (800) 718-1597‬ or nrrieducation@gmail.com

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