Wilderness Medical Associates®

Wilderness Medical Associates® offers a range of fully certified courses for Outward Bound and NOLS instructors, river guides, trip leaders, mountaineers, climbers and others who venture into the backcountry.

Wilderness Medical Associates® was founded in 1978 by Peter Goth, M.D. to provide medical training and risk management for Outward Bound schools in the United States. Conventional First Aid and EMT training curricula are designed for an urban environment, and assume the availability of 911 communications and rapid ambulance transport to a hospital setting. Outward Bound was operating wilderness expeditions and found that conventional medical training programs did not address the specialized wilderness context of delayed rescue transport in remote areas, prolonged exposure to severe environments, and the limited availability of medical equipment. Wilderness Medical Associates® tailored courses to these needs and discovered that the demand for this training extended to organizations as diverse as the National Park Service, university outing clubs, rural ambulance services, the FBI, and oil exploration companies.

The Wilderness Medical Associates'® Wilderness EMT program is designed for rural EMS providers, rescue team members, Park Service employees, smoke jumpers, and other medical professionals who work in remote environments.

Northern Cairn has WMA instructors on staff.

Click on the links below to download the course flyers