Wilderness+Medicine

Welcome to the Wilderness Medicine page. A page dedicated to EMS in back country.

For a great introduction to the field of wilderness medicine, visit the [|National Outdoor Leadership School]and [|Wilderness Medicine Institute]. [] []

If you are an EMT, Paramedic, Nurse or Physician and you are interested in spending time in the wilderness environment, I strongly reccommend the [|Wilderness Upgrade for Medical Professionals]course offerred through NOLS/WMI. Having recently completed the course myself, I learned that once in the wilderness setting, the letters after your name don't mean much. My peers in this class included wilderness first responders, EMTs, Paramedics, Nurses and Physicians. it was refreshing to learn along side individuals of different training and still find that we were on an equal level. As was stated by one physician in the class "Improvising a traction splint was not covered in medical school." The knowledge of the WMI staff and the collective knowledge brought to the class by the students, resemble the powerful educational potential of [|a wiki]. Everyone was able to bring something to this class that was useful and relevant. In the urban environments we follow standard opperating procedures, protocols and local guidlines. Whether we know it or not, we gain a lot of protection from these pre established set of instructions. In the wilderness, there are none of these. In the wilderness there are good decisions and bad decisions. WMI has established itself as the standard for wilderness medicine. Their methods are accepted throughout the world as the right decisions when it comes to treating people in the back country.

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