Unlike wilderness emergency medical technicians, or WMET’s, WFR’s cannot perform more conventional medical care treatments, such as administering oxygen.

It's not often that a medical seminar starts with a warning about poison ivy and an offer of bug spray. But then again, UAB's wilderness emergency medicine training sessions are all about handling ...

Wilderness medicine educators are teaching students at UC Santa Cruz how to treat patients outside of a hospital. Skip to content. All Sections. Subscribe Now. 56°F. Monday, June 16th 2025 ...

Hobson has extensive experience with wilderness medicine having received wilderness first-responder and wilderness emergency medical technician training during his undergraduate career at IU.

They don’t perform the same type of response that emergency medical technicians do on an ambulance. They don’t give oxygen or injections. The wilderness first aid course shows students how to ...

Chee himself holds several qualifications, including Wilderness First Responder, Wilderness+EMT (Emergency Medical Technician) and Tactical Combat Casualty Care-Level 3 Combat Medic certifications.

Hill City Ambulance Service is offering training courses for emergency medical responders beginning May 15. The five-day Intensive Wilderness First Responder and six-day Wilderness Emergency ...

Faith Goodacre, 32, of Westminster, recently completed a spring semester Wilderness Medicine and Rescue course traveling in the Rocky Mountains with the National Outdoor Leadership School. The firs… ...

SUMMIT COUNTY - With warm days and sunny skies, summer might not seem the time for class. But it's ideal when the wilderness is the classroom.About 15 Colorado Mountain ...

On a warm afternoon in mid-August, wilderness first responders gathered around a man lying on the ground and listened as he explained how he had lost his feeling in his ...

Wilderness emergency response is her passion, something she has been doing since she was 19. Once a month, she travels for Wilderness Medical Associates to teach the one-week course.

In 1998, Brett Thomas Cooper was working in northern Maine as a whitewater rafting guide when he came across a head-on crash on a back road. Mr. Cooper, who was a wilderness emergency medical ...