The Wilderness First Responder Course provides practical skills for managing common wilderness injuries, especially in remote areas where immediate access to Emergency Medical Services (EMS) is limited. This course prepares you to rely on your own training and abilities until formal medical care can be reached, potentially hours or days later.

Gain knowledge and skills in treating common wilderness injuries with specialized medical tools while also utilizing common backpacking and camping items from your own kit in emergency situations.

CPR with AED is required for this course (unless already current). Portions of that course will be taken online before arrival at the course, and the hands-on testing will be completed by all students upon arrival. Further instructions will be emailed to students to coordinate this.

The textbook for this course will be Medicine for the Outdoors: The Essential Guide to First Aid and Medical Emergency by Paul. S. Auerbach. The cost of this book is included in the tuition. A copy will be furnished to the students upon arrival.

This course is well within the commonly accepted Minimum Guidelines and Scope of Practice for both Wilderness First Aid and Wilderness First Responder. Students who successfully complete this training both physically and academically will be issued a Wilderness First Responder Certification (70 hours) from the Gray Bearded Green Beret, LLC, once training is completed.

The GB2 Wilderness First Responder Course is the preferred Wilderness Medicine Course for the GB2 Instructor Training Program certification. 

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