Austere Medicine

Austere Medicine

Course Outlines

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

16 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

40 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

80 Hours, F2F or Hybrid.

This course builds on prior professional medical training at 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.

Advanced 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 ALS

80 Hours, F2F or Hybrid.

This course provides established ALS certified clinical professionals with an opportunity to reframe their knowledge and exercise robust critical thinking in the application of both new and existing knowledge in remote, low-resource, and non-traditional environments, and to learn new, practical, outdoors skills.

Participants must meet prerequisite conditions. Upon successful completion, participants receive certification, valid for three (3) years.

Austere Medical Director

50 Hours, F2F or Hybrid.

This course is designed for licensed physicians who wish to operate as an organizations medical director. The course explores AEMEDs curriculum, approach to the austere context, and protocols; and gives participants an opportunity to experience working in an austere contect.

Participants must meet prerequisite conditions. Upon successful completion, participants receive certification, valid for three (3) years.

Short Courses

Austere Anaphylaxis Management

4 Hours, F2F or Hybrid.

Anaphylaxis is a life-threatening allergic reaction. Symptoms that can be life-threatening can occur within seconds to minutes, rarely hours, after contact with an antigen. This course provides practical guidance to participants on the identification of anaphylaxis, differentiation from other conditions and step by step guidance on patient management and evacuation.

Participants must hold a recognized ABLS, AFA, WFA, AAFA, or WAFA certification. Upon successful completion, participants receive certification, valid for three (3) years.

 

Spine Assessment & Packaging

8 Hours, F2F or Hybrid.

Packaging for spine in the presence of an MOI can complicate, delay and increase the risks involved in evacuating a patient. Learn how to assess a spine and make the decision to clear or package the patient.

Participants must hold a recognized ABLS, AFA or WFA certification. This is a non-certificated course.