Wilderness & Remote Medicine Courses in Wyoming & Southeast Idaho

“Very professional, excellent, scenario based teaching. We chose to do the hybrid class which gave us 5 full days of hands on training. Highly recommend these guys!”

— Jeff Schmidt, Big Horn County SAR | Wyoming Hoist Team

WALS | WFR | WFA | Recert | CPR | FA

Students in Wyoming WFR course with Wounded Bear Medicine treat a mock patient. Students wearing red coats and patient is on a inflatable sleeping pad with blue tarp protection from the rain and cold.

WFR

Wilderness First Responder

The WFR course is tailored for professionals, trip leaders, and serious outdoor recreationalists. If you are working and traveling in outdoor, low-resource, remote, or wilderness environments, this the ideal medical training for you. Typical students in our WFR courses:

  • Outdoor educators

  • Outdoor guides and trip leaders

  • Members of the military

  • Search and rescue teams

  • Wildland firefighters

  • Researchers and field workers

  • Adventure film and tv crews

  • Disaster relief providers

The Wilderness First Responder course provides essential training in wilderness medicine, leadership, risk management and critical thinking. This course includes CPR certification.

Wounded Bear Medic provides care away from a hospital in a remote area on the Baja peninsula in Mexico. Medical Kit is out and medic and patient are sitting next to a lightweight tent.

WALS

Wilderness Advanced Life Support

WMI is dedicated to harnessing the latest in medical knowledge and critical thinking for operating in remote or resource-limited patient care settings. WALS is a specialized course designed by and for advanced care medical practitioners:

  • Medical Doctors

  • Nurse Practitioners

  • Physicians Assistants

  • Nurses

  • Paramedics

WALS is the pinnacle offering from Wilderness Medical Associates International. Our courses are taught in partnership with Dr. Will Smith from Wilderness & Emergency Medicine Consulting LLC.

Students in a wounded bear wilderness first aid class provide care to a mock patient in front of the Tetons in Grand Teton National Park. Students are on green grass with snow covered mountains beyond them.

WFA

Wilderness First Aid

The WFA course is the best and most comprehensive course for realistic first-aid and CPR training. It has been tailored to meet the needs of outdoor recreationalists and outdoor professionals involved in short term pursuits in the wilderness and delayed care settings. Wilderness First Aid is a taught over 2 days introducing students to:

  • Patient Assessments

  • CPR & AED

  • Bleeding Control

  • Lifting and Moving

  • Patient care and protection from environment

  • Signs and Symptoms of serious medical emergencies

  • Splinting

  • Wound care

  • and more!

Typical WFA students are outdoor enthusiasts, new guides, field workers, and rangers on day trips and short adventures.

Discover Wilderness Medicine with Wounded Bear!

Are you ready to enhance your wilderness skills and be prepared for any situation?

Gear up with practical learning and hands-on experience in wilderness medicine. If you are looking for a wilderness first responder, wilderness first aid, wilderness advanced life support, or first aid/CPR techniques Wounded Bears instructors can help. If you're an outdoor guide, backcountry skier, climber, rafter, kayaker, pack-rafter, snowmobiler, hiker, overlander, mountain biker, and more our courses are designed to equip you with the knowledge and confidence needed to handle emergencies in remote settings.

Wounded Bear’s medical courses are certified by Wilderness Medicine Associates International, providing the latest information, up to date materials and curriculum, and high instructor standards, making them the experts in wilderness medicine training.

Explore each of our courses to find the perfect fit for your need. Don't miss out on the chance to increase your risk management, medical knowledge and improvised medical techniques. Join us at Wounded Bear Medicine, where wilderness medicine learning means real-life relevant to you scenarios. Your future wilderness adventures will be more rewarding as you gain the knowledge and skills to know what to do if things don’t go as planned. Grab your adventure partners, enroll now and get ready to conquer the great outdoors with confidence!

WALS | WFR | WFA | Recert | CPR | FA

What students are saying:

  • "Excellent challenging course! Effective delivery with online work balanced with in person. I appreciated everything Anthony threw at us to better prepare us for the unexpected."

    Karla -WFR Hybrid Student

  • "I Realy enjoyed being pushed beyond the traditional book learning & textbook rescue scenarios. The added stress in real time heightened everything, and made me actually utilize the training I was receiving. Highly recommend."

    Reagan -WFR Hybrid student

  • "This course taught me a lot and put special emphasis on information I need for my line of work."

    Brittany -WFR Hybrid Student

Remote & Austere Medical Education and Training

We offer remote medical courses tailored to match your work, duty, and mission needs. We provide courses for:

  • Game and Fish Wardens

  • National Park Rangers

  • Law Enforcement Officers with remote response areas

  • National Forest Service Rangers

  • Border Patrol Agents

  • Bureau of Land Management Rangers

  • Conservation officers

  • Military

These courses are not open enrollment and allow for advanced skills, and techniques to be incorporated into the course.

CPR AED and Basic First Aid

Wounded Bear teaches American Red Cross CPR and First Aid and American Heart Association CPR.

BLS level and Heartsaver levels are both taught but at different times. Private courses can be arranged for individuals, small and large groups.

  • Hiking groups

  • Scouting groups

  • Outfitter support staff

  • Industry and Construction contractors

  • Medical and Dental Offices

  • Professional Offices

  • and more

Contact us for private course details

Wounded Bear Safety Team provide safety briefing to Cast before they paddle colorful kayaks in blue ocean waters

Risk management and Custom Courses

With extensive outdoor, rescue and guiding experience, Wounded Bear Medicine can provide courses for your group in a variety of skills. These include:

  • Private projects

  • Leadership

  • Risk management

  • Risk assesment

  • Training development

  • Search and Rescue medical team development

  • Epinephrine administration

  • Incident response training and planning

Contact us to discuss your needs and projects.

What Students Are Saying

“I want to be able to help someone if they need help this provided me with a base of knowledge to continue to add to. I’ve been injured in the backcountry, my friends have been injured & I’ve seen strangers injured, no one seemed to know what to do. Now I have this basic wilderness first aid.”

—Jamel, WFA student

“You guys are great as individuals. As a team, this course and your instruction is even more dynamic. I am so much more prepared to handle situations that could happen. I am psyched about creating my own first aid kits for day hikes and for our camper. Thank you!”

— Lindsay, WFA Student

It’s not just combat military or extreme mountain guides that need to have an understanding of backcountry / austere medicine. Anyone who works or recreates in remote locations around the globe, from field scientists to front country guides to the occasional weekend hiker or boater, should have a solid foundation of wilderness medical skills to use to save a life.

Wounded Bear Medicine is a WMA LTC

Wounded Bear Medicine is the Licensed Training Company for Wilderness Medical Associates International in the areas surrounding the Tetons and Wyoming. Wilderness Medical Associates stays on the leading edge of curriculum development and is continually updating content and teaching methods to follow the best and most current recommendations from Medical Directors and the Wilderness Medical Society.

Wilderness Medical Associate providers in the Rocky Mountains