aUSTERE DIVISION courses
Wilderness and Remote First Aid
Wilderness and Remote First Aid
Wilderness and Remote First Aid
The Wilderness and Remote First Aid course is our basic course. It is designed to prepare participants to recognize, assess, and manage medical emergencies when professional medical care may be delayed or unavailable. This intensive 8-hour program provides practical skills and decision-making strategies for responding to injuries and illnesses in austere, wilderness, rural, and remote environments. Students will learn how to conduct patient assessments, manage life-threatening emergencies, control bleeding, treat environmental injuries, stabilize fractures and musculoskeletal injuries, and care for common medical conditions encountered in remote settings. Emphasis is placed on improvisation, resource management, prolonged patient care, evacuation considerations, and adapting treatment plans when access to emergency medical services is limited.
Austere Medical Preparedness
Wilderness and Remote First Aid
Wilderness and Remote First Aid
The Austere Medical Preparedness (AMPrep) course prepares students to assess, stabilize, and manage medical emergencies when access to hospitals, EMS systems, or definitive care is delayed or unavailable. Drawing upon principles from Prolonged Field Care (PFC), Wilderness Medicine, Tactical Emergency Casualty Care (TECC), Tactical Combat Casualty Care (TCCC), Disaster Medicine, and Special Operations medical doctrine, this course emphasizes practical decision-making in resource-limited environments. Students will learn systematic patient assessment, prolonged casualty management, environmental medicine, disaster response principles, improvised medical solutions, evacuation planning, and patient monitoring when conventional resources are unavailable. Emphasis is placed on maintaining patient survivability during extended care scenarios while balancing limited equipment, personnel, and environmental challenges.
Austere Medical Provider
Wilderness and Remote First Aid
Austere Medical Provider
The Austere Medical Provider (AMP) course is an advanced medical program designed to prepare healthcare professionals to deliver definitive and prolonged patient care when evacuation is delayed, communications are degraded, resources are scarce, and access to hospitals may be measured in days rather than hours. Drawing from Prolonged Field Care (PFC), Prolonged Casualty Care (PCC), Wilderness Medicine, Special Operations medicine, Expeditionary Medicine, Disaster Medicine, and Remote Healthcare principles, this course teaches providers how to adapt conventional medical protocols to austere environments where the normal assumptions of EMS and hospital-based care no longer apply. Students will learn advanced patient assessment, prolonged monitoring, extended trauma and medical management, austere pharmacology, telemedicine integration, resource conservation, improvisation, casualty evacuation planning, and continuity of care strategies.