Austere Medicine
Course Outlines
Austere Medicine is the provision of patient care by a medical professional, allied health-care professional, trained layman, or well-meaning bystander in any environment in which definitive medical care or access to requisite resources may be frustrated, resulting in an increased likelihood of negative health outcomes for the patient.
Our AFA, AAFA, and AFR programs meet or exceed the certification standards published by the WMEC for the corresponding level, and are issued as dual certifications.
Certificate Courses
Austere BLS
8 Hours, F2F.
This course teaches the general principles of the Austere environment, along with a comprehensive approach to Basic Life Support in an austere environment.
This course has no prerequisites and is suitable for participants with no prior training. Upon successful completion, participants receive certification, valid for three (3) years.
Austere First Aid
24 Hours, F2F.
This course introduces the concept of extended care in low-resource environments where definitive care may be severely delayed or inaccessible and provides an awareness of a body-systems-based approach to medical care.
This course has no prerequisites and is suitable for participants with no prior training. Upon successful completion, participants receive certification, valid for three (3) years.
Austere Advanced First Aid
45 Hours, F2F or Hybrid.
This course teaches the basics of extended care in low resource environments where definitive care may be severely delayed or inacessible and provides participants with a good general introduction to common medical, traumatic, and environmental mechanisms of injury.
This course has no prerequisites and is suitable for participants with no prior training. Upon successful completion, participants receive certification, valid for three (3) years.
Austere First Responder
80 Hours, F2F or Hybrid.
The authoritative austere medicine course for lay responders working in remote industries and those who operate in low-resource, remote and other austere environments where definitive care may be severely delayed or inaccessible.
This course has no prerequisites, however requires significant prework for those with no prior medical training. Upon successful completion, participants receive certification, valid for three (3) years.
Austere Medic
96 Hours, F2F or Hybrid.
This course builds on prior professional medical training and provides a framework for approaching traumatic, medical, environmental, and mass-casualty incidents in wilderness, remote, and other austere settings.
Participants must meet prerequisite conditions. Upon successful completion, participants receive certification, valid for two (2) years.
Critical Care Austere Medic
120 Hours, F2F or Hybrid.
This course builds on prior professional medical training and is targeted at those with current ALS experience. The course provides an opportunity to exercise robust critical thinking in the application of both new and existing knowledge in non-traditional environments and provides ACLS, ATLS, AMLS, AELS, and TCCC certification.
Participants must meet prerequisite conditions. Upon successful completion, participants receive certification, valid for two (2) years.
Austere Medical Director
45 Hours, F2F or Hybrid.
This course is designed for licensed physicians who wish to operate as an organization’s medical director. The course explores AEMED’s curricular, approach to the austere context and protocols; and gives participants an opportunity to experience working in an austere context.
Participants must meet prerequisite conditions. Upon successful completion, participants receive certification, valid for three (3) years.
Austere ALS
24 Hours, Hybrid
This course is designed for those with significant ALS level experience who wish to learn how to perform advanced invasive procedures in the austere context, and explore the various considerations for their application outside of a controlled surgical environment.
Participants must meet prerequisite conditions. Upon successful completion, participants receive certification, valid for three (3) years.