Professional Certificate in Wilderness and Extreme Environment Medicine

• Wilderness First Response: This unit covers the basics of wilderness first response, including patient assessment, basic life support, and trauma care in remote settings.
• Environmental Medicine: This unit explores how environmental factors such as altitude, cold, heat, and hypoxia affect the human body and how to treat related illnesses and injuries.
• Search and Rescue: This unit covers the principles and practices of wilderness search and rescue, including navigation, communication, and incident management.
• High-Altitude Medicine: This unit focuses on the physiological effects of high altitude on the human body and how to prevent and treat altitude-related illnesses such as acute mountain sickness and high-altitude pulmonary edema.
• Cold Injuries and Hypothermia: This unit covers the recognition, prevention, and treatment of cold injuries such as frostbite and trench foot, as well as hypothermia.
• Heat Injuries and Illnesses: This unit covers the recognition, prevention, and treatment of heat injuries such as heat cramps, heat exhaustion, and heat stroke.
• Wilderness Water Safety and Drowning: This unit covers the principles of wilderness water safety, including risk assessment, hazard identification, and prevention of drowning.
• Wilderness Trauma Management: This unit focuses on the assessment and management of traumatic injuries in remote settings, including fractures, dislocations, and wound management.
• Wilderness Pharmacology: This unit covers the use of medications in remote settings, including indications, contraindications, and dosages.