AlpTerra Wilderness Medicine Course

ALPTERRA offers wilderness medicine training built around the principle that good judgment and practiced skills save lives. At the end of the course, participants will:

• Understand and practice the principles of prevention, assessment, treatment, and transport of illness and injury in a wilderness environment.
• Have increased knowledge of wilderness environments, including mountains, arctic, jungle, maritime, desert, and other austere locations.
• Understand wilderness medicine components such as risk management, logistics, communication, planning factors, medical equipment needs, austere medical equipment selection, rescue, and improvisation.
• Have enlarged their network of medical professionals.
• Possess new and applicable wilderness medical skills that will benefit themselves as well as their friends and family.