Who is it for?

These courses are designed for anyone who lives away from definitive medical care, works in search and rescue teams, ventures in the remote areas for personal trips or leading clients, fire fighters, disaster management teams or anyone who would just like to learn about the human body so that they may be able to respond to an emergency situation.

Wilderness medicine courses are helpful for nurses and doctors practising in metropolitan cities. These courses  provide them with the opportunity to manage a patient in an environment that is very different from the one in hospitals. It can prove extremely challenging to perform the simplest of tasks while working in an uncontrolled environment, as it increases the chances of infections and causes risk to the patient’s life. In a controlled environment there are many medical instruments and equipment available to perform tasks such as sutures, wound dressing, cast on a broken bone.

Whereas in an uncontrolled environment it is your training and judgement of the situation that can help in saving the life of your patient. These uncontrolled environments that are of course away from definitive medical care, can be but not limited to – a mountain, an accident site on a highway, battlefield, nearest rock climbing site, disaster site.

Apart from doctors and nurses, those who venture in the great outdoors to seek adventure or to lead groups can also benefit from such training as they are in remote areas and have higher likelihood of an injury occurring. In India, only a few outdoor learning and adventure companies have made it a compulsory requirement for their staff to go through such training.