WILDERNESS FIRST RESPONDER
In-person or live online via Zoom
Accessible, innovative, and practical
WFR Certification and Recertification
Base Medical’s Wilderness First Responder (WFR) courses provide essential training for those working or adventuring in remote areas. Combining hands-on practice with realistic scenarios, WFR courses teach participants to assess, stabilize, and treat injuries and illnesses when advanced care is delayed.
Designed for outdoor professionals and serious adventurers, the curriculum emphasizes decision-making, leadership, and critical thinking, and is taught by experienced instructors with strong medical and field backgrounds. Base Medical’s courses stand out for their real world and practical focus - teaching students skills that their most likely to use and practicing scenarios that they’re most likely to encounter. All WFR courses include discussion of working with SAR teams and advanced rescue personnel.
How Training Is Delivered
We have the highest standards in the industry and are the only providers of SAR wilderness medicine, wilderness CPR, and Austere BLS.
Online Lessons
Take the online lessons at your own pace before attending hands-on training. For those in the SAR wilderness medicine course, the online curriculum is entirely tailored to SAR.
Hands-on Practical Training
The Initial WFR certification practical trainings are 4-7 days in length.
The in-person and remote recert practical trainings are 2 days in length (~16 hours)
Certification
Take the online exam to receive your certification. Certifications are valid for two years. Our WM subscription makes it easy to maintain certification and skills year after year.
About Remote (virtual) Courses
Our certified instructors and education centers coordinate practical training independently of Base Medical. Clicking on a course below may navigate you away from the Base Medical site to the instructor's site for Initial course registration, course payment, and course access. Base Medical has a grace for an expired WFR certification of 1 year. Certifications from other organizations are accepted. Certifications from other organizations are accepted.
Remote courses are non-refundable. Students who fail to show up to the training forfeit all course payments and will be required to pay full price to sign up for another training date. For questions contact Course Administration at admin@base-medical.com
Request A Training
We provide affordable training opportunities for groups big and small, including in-person and remote Zoom training.
Become An Education Center
We empower organizations with the capability to deliver standardized, affordable, and even profitable wilderness medicine training in-house training.
Become An Instructor
Deliver your courses on your own or for an organization. Candidates must have a WFR certification or above.
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Streamline your team’s training or increase your professionalism with our online SAR operational course library subscription for only $12.50 per responder/year.
What Our Students Say
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"This course gave me much more detail than previous trainings. I appreciated the videos accompaniments to the text, as hearing the material reinforced what was written.
-Sandra R.
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“I was really worried because in my area there is no where I can go to get a recertification. The closest locations are normally a days drive away and I didn't gave the time for that. So I searched for anything else that I could find and found Base Medical... The course material was very well done, the testing did an amazing job of reminding you of what was important, and I could go at my own pace.
-Erin Q.
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"I have to admit I was dubious of the online format, but I appreciate the care and effort that went into creating the WFR recert. This really helped me when I was in a pinch between geographic location and timing for recertification."
-Brendan M
Wilderness Medicine Training FAQ
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Base Medical WFA and WFR courses are designed to be practical and applicable to real world use. Our instructors focus on decision making and providing tools are relevant to the experience of our students.
Our courses get students thinking about the ongoing situation and next phase of care through robust online content and thoughtfully considered scenarios.
Base Medical is a leader in remote online wilderness Medicine courses and learning. We’re also proud to be blazing the path in SAR specific WFA and WFR education.
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Base Medical courses are appropriate for students of all experience levels
WFA courses are most intended for non-professional rescuers such as volunteer group leaders or adventurers who like to get outdoors for fun. These courses focus on what to do in the immediate aftermath of an injury or illness and how to stabilize a patient until higher trained rescue arrives.
WFR classes are great for outdoor professionals such as guides, expedition leaders, SAR volunteers and pros, and other folks who are tasked with caring for other people in the outdoors. These classes also focus on the immediate response to an emergency, but dive a bit deeper into long term patient care, risk management, and decision making.
We also offer WFA courses specifically designed for SAR providers. These classes are taught by instructors with extensive SAR experience and apply real world application and extra time on evacuation and ongoing assessment.
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Students in a remote course complete online, self-paced course work in advance of their practical. The practical part of the course is held on zoom with a Base Medical instructor. WFA courses are one full day and WFR Recert Courses are two full days.
The practical day is a combination of content review, skills practice, and scenarios using a volunteer subject. The session is interactive, hands-on, and includes lots of opportunities to put skills to the test.
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Students are encouraged to have items from the remote supply list handy to use. However, if you have concerns about securing these items in advance or if cost a barrier, our instructors can suggest alternatives for use.
Volunteer patients are needed for two 2-hour stretches on day one (WFA). Students enrolled in the WFR Recert will also need a volunteer for the end of day two. Volunteers can be family, friends, partners, or coworkers. Alternatively, students in close proximity to one another can pair up and work as one another’s volunteers. Students who enroll together and take this option are eligible for a discount.
Volunteers do not need any previous medical training. They just need to be an adult who can follow instructions and commit to making scenarios as realistic as possible.
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Our remote instructors are highly trained individuals - EMTs, first responders, paramedics, and above. They have developed online-specific teaching tools and methods to engage students in a remote learning format. Learn more about our team here.
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