Medical Programs
WAVE is pleased to provide a full spectrum of Wilderness Medical and First Aid programs. All of our programs are certified through Wilderness Medical Associates Canada (WMA), the global leader in Wilderness Medicine. These programs use a practical experiential approach which has proven to be very effective. WMA sets the standard for Wilderness Medical programming worldwide.
Please take the time to browse through our different Wilderness Medical Courses to see which course(s) meet your needs.
- Wilderness First Responder -WFR (80 hrs) - The standard in Wilderness Medicine
- Open WFR Recertification Course (24 hrs) - Update and recertify your WFR
- Wilderness First Aid - WFA (18 hrs) - An introduction to Wilderness First Aid
- Wilderness Advanced First Aid - WAFA (36 hrs) - Advanced wilderness first aid training
- Bridge Course (36 hrs) - WFR upgrade program
- Basic Life Support (8hrs) - Learn to deal with immediately life threatening emergencies
- Medical Workshops (4hrs) - Specialty clinics on O2 therapy, AED, Anaphylaxis and Diabetes
Why Wilderness Medical Associates?
Wilderness Medical Associates:
- Have been teaching the WEMT and WFR courses for 17 years.
- Is preferred by Outward Bound, the National Park Service, the FBI, and many college and university clubs including Princeton and Colgate.
- Requires all instructors to have substantial experience in emergency medicine, back country travel, and teaching.
- Maintains the highest Quality Assurance standards in the business.
- Constantly updates curriculum to reflect changes in wilderness medicine.
- Devotes significant time to practical sessions and realistic rescue simulations, complete with moulage wounds and stage blood.
- Videotapes each rescue simulation for enhanced learning.
Our courses are the toughest of their kind. Where other providers rely on memorization of lists of signs, symptoms and treatment procedures, WMA has an alternate approach; WMA believes that if a student understands the principles behind the problems they will be better suited and able to develop their own lists of signs, symptoms and treatments to apply in a wide range of situations. WMA believes that the training and preparation students receive should be every bit as challenging as the rescue situations to which they will respond.
For more information about Wilderness Medical Associates please visit their web site at www.wildmed.ca or www.wildmed.com