Description

Instructors: Alana Hawley, Raz Peel, Alec Ritchie, and Kendra Young
Date: October 1-2, 2025 (full days)
Max Participants: 24

Description

Advanced Wilderness Life Support™ is a 16 hour (2 day) certification course intended exclusively for medical professionals. The course curriculum attempts to strike a balance between didactic lectures and hands-on instruction to most effectively train students in managing medical situations in the remote context.
Course topics include professional wilderness management of hypothermia and cold injury, avalanche, altitude related problems, patient packaging & evacuation, medical problems, submersion injuries, lightning strikes, wound and musculoskeletal injury, wilderness medical kits, as well as sessions on basic survival and search and rescue fundamentals.

Please note, if you are no longer able to attend the course, you must email programdirector@cawm.ca. The final day to receive a refund is September 18, 2025.

In the event that the course is cancelled due to low registration numbers, all participants will be notified by September 8, 2025 and will receive a full refund.