Advanced Wilderness Life Support™ is a 4-day certification course intended exclusively for licensed medical professionals. The course curriculum attempts to strike a balance between didactic lectures and hands-on instruction to most effectively train students in managing medical situations in the remote context.
Course topics include professional wilderness management of hypothermia and cold injury, avalanche, altitude related problems, patient packaging & evacuation, medical problems, submersion injuries, lightning stikes, wound and musculoskeletal injury, wilderness medical kits, as well as sessions on basic survival and search and rescue fundamentals.
Our AWLS curriculum emphasizes the skills and knowledge needed by wilderness professionals, while ensuring ample time to master key skills.
Our instructors are leading experts in wilderness medicine. Learn from experienced, knowledgable instructors with a passion for austere medicine.
Gain credibility and open up new opportunities as a medical professional with recognized wilderness medicine certifications.
Most of our professional courses include Category 1 CME credits and are eligible for Fellow of the Academy of Wilderness Medicine credits.
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