For PA, RN, EMT, MD
Education for Medical Professionals
Adapt your urban medical knowledge for remote, resource-limited settings. NOLS Wilderness Medicine courses for medical professionals offer CMEs and hands-on training where minimal equipment and improvisation matter most.
Wilderness Medicine for the Professional Practitioner
Challenge yourself in the realm of wilderness medicine
NOLS Wilderness Medicine's courses for medical professionals are designed specifically to help you adapt your urban medical knowledge in remote settings. In the wilderness, you may have minimal access to equipment, and your ability to improvise is crucial to your patient's wellbeing.
Choose your course
Two ways to grow your wilderness medicine practice
Whether you have two days or a full week, there's a NOLS course that fits how you practice.
2-Day: Wilderness Medicine for the Professional Practitioner
Apply your existing medical knowledge in a new way to manage a patient in a wilderness, remote, or disaster setting. Two days, intensive, hands-on.
5-Day: Wilderness Upgrade for Medical Professionals
Five days of intensive, hands-on learning. Improvise equipment, manage challenging environments, and make difficult decisions with confidence.
Earn CMEs
NOLS courses for medical professionals (PA, RN, EMT, MD, etc.) qualify for continuing medical education credits.
Seasoned Instructors
Learn from instructors with backgrounds in emergency medicine, wilderness operations, and outdoor education, they've been in the field with these protocols.
What you'll gain
Skills built for resource-limited care
You already know acute care. NOLS adds the wilderness layer: improvisation, environmental decision-making, and extended patient care when help isn't coming soon.
Improvise Equipment
Splints from trekking poles, traction with paracord, evacuation litters from what you have, improvisation is a learned skill, and we teach it.
Environmental Medicine
Hypothermia, heat illness, altitude, lightning, drowning, the conditions you don't see often in the ER but matter most in the field.
Decision-Making
When to evacuate, when to stay, when to call for help, the judgment calls that come with limited resources and long timelines.
Patient Care Over Hours
Most wilderness emergencies aren't resolved in 30 minutes. Learn to provide thoughtful, sustainable care over extended evacuations.
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Both options earn CMEs and adapt your existing acute care training to wilderness, remote, and disaster contexts.
Wilderness Medicine for the Professional Practitioner
Wilderness Upgrade for Medical Professionals (WUMP)
Group & Custom Training for Clinical Teams
Wilderness First Responder (WFR)
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Bring your practice to the backcountry
Adapt the medicine you already know for the conditions where it matters most.
