Upcoming Courses

Our Wilderness First Aid (WFA) course is designed for the outdoor enthusiast,
trip leader, raft guide, or land agency field staff who spend time in rural or
wilderness areas. The WFA is a great introduction to wilderness medicine and
basic life support skills. This training focuses on prevention, assessment, and
treatment of environmental illnesses, recognizing and stabilizing life threats
caused by trauma, and calling for a rescue in the event of a wilderness
emergency. Upon successful completion of your course, you will receive a 2
year certification through DMM and its curriculum is approved by the WMEC
(Wilderness Medicine Education Collaborative).
Certifications: Upon completion of this course you will receive the following.
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DMM WFR Recertification (Valid 3 years)
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WAT (Wilderness Anaphylaxis Training - Valid 3 years)

As an American Red Cross Licensed Provider, we offer First Aid as a Blended Learning course that is designed to meet OSHA workforce regulations for First Aid. You must also sign up for an in-person CPR Course to gain certification. This is a two-part Blended Learning option to add 1^st Aid to a CPR/AED certification. This is a self-directed online module followed by an in-person skills check. With purchase you will be provided the online module to be completed prior to the in-person skills check.

The course teaches basic first aid skills such as: making sure the scene is safe, first aid basics such as stopping bleeding that can be seen and helping someone with a possible broken bone or sprain, medical emergencies, and environmental emergencies.

Certifications: Upon completion students receive a 2-year certification in First Aid.

This Hybrid Wilderness First Responder (HWFR) Course format consists of a 30 hour self-paced, online instructional component, followed by a 50-hour in-person practical component.  The in-person session takes place over five consecutive days.

The online section is hosted on CANVAS®, a cloud-based classroom and powerful learning management system that allows students to work at their own pace. An instructor team assigned to each course supports participants with navigation of the online material and facilitates the in-person interactive elements and skill-based learning. The online material consists of reading assignments, case studies, videos, photos, animations, quizzes, and discussions. The online section is available to course participants approximately 1 month before the practical section is to begin.

The hybrid format works best for self-motivated individuals with good time management skills and has access to a smartphone, tablet, laptop, or desktop and high-speed internet. This instructional format provides the opportunity for course participants to learn at their own speed, in their own space, on their own schedule.

Participants then apply knowledge and skills learned from the online WFR modules to the 50 hour in-person section.  This practical section consists of focused lectures, hands-on patient assessments, skill stations, scenarios, and discussions with the same instructor team that supports the online section.

Upon completion of this course, you will receive the following:

• DMM WFR (3-year certification)
• DMM Wilderness Anaphylaxis Training (2-year certification)
• CPR (3-year certification through DMM)

As an American Red Cross Licensed Provider, we offer First Aid as a Blended Learning course that is designed to meet OSHA workforce regulations for First Aid. You must also sign up for an in-person CPR Course to gain certification. This is a two-part Blended Learning option to add 1^st Aid to a CPR/AED certification. This is a self-directed online module followed by an in-person skills check. With purchase you will be provided the online module to be completed prior to the in-person skills check.

The course teaches basic first aid skills such as: making sure the scene is safe, first aid basics such as stopping bleeding that can be seen and helping someone with a possible broken bone or sprain, medical emergencies, and environmental emergencies.

Certifications: Upon completion students receive a 2-year certification in First Aid.

WFR Recertification

Wilderness First Responder (WFR) is recognized as the industry standard for those who work as backcountry trip leaders, camp counselors, mountain guides, river guides, ski patrollers and other outdoor professionals responsible for prolonged field care of their clients and friends. This 16-hour module is designed for anyone re-certifying their current WFR certification. Content delivery is built around hands-on practical skills, scenarios, simulations and case reviews.

Topics include, but are not limited to: CPR considerations (when not to start and when to stop), wilderness wound and burn management, assessing patients for spine and head trauma, athletic injuries, addressing fractures and dislocations, improvised splinting techniques, patient monitoring and long-term management problems, up-to-date information on all environmental emergencies, common simple medical problems, plus advice on drug therapies. Emphasis is placed on prevention and decision-making.

All curriculum is based on current industry standards set forth by the WMEC

(Wilderness Medicine Education Collaborative) Scope of Practice Guidelines SOGs).

Certifications: Upon completion of this course you will receive the following.

• DMM WFR Recertification (Valid 3 years)
• WAT (Wilderness Anaphylaxis Training - Valid 3 years)

This 160 hour EMT course, developed and provided by Jackson Hole Outdoor Leadership Institute (JHOLI), is compliant with DOT EMT curriculum and prepares individuals to provide pre-hospital emergency medical care and transportation for the sick and injured.  Topics covered include, but are not limited to, Basic Life Support Skills (CPR, AED use, airway management, oxygen administration), patient assessment, recognition and treatment of medical emergencies, recognition and treatment of traumatic emergencies, pharmacology, proper techniques in lifting and moving patients, accurate documentation and effective communication.

This course will include a blend of classroom instruction, hands-on lab time for practical skills development, mock scenarios, quizzes, tests, clinical observations and ambulance ride alongs.

Upon successful completion of the course and all exams, participants obtain the following:

-  2 year AHA BLS Provider certification

-  ICS 100, 700 & 800

-  2 year WY EMT certification

- National Registry of Emergency Medical Technician (NREMT) certification.

It is the responsibility of each student to find out how certification, licensure, continuing education and recertification work in her/his state of residence.

​Upon registration, students will be provided information on how to complete required background checks and immunization compliance before the start of the course.  

Registration for the course will close 30 days prior to course start for necessary pre-coursework, background checks and immunizations (required for ambulance ride -alongs) to be completed.

** Students wishing to take this course for college credit through Central Wyoming College (CWC) may do so at an additional per credit fee and is eligible for 4 credits.

This WEMT course, developed and provided by Jackson Hole Outdoor Leadership Institute (JHOLI), consists of the standard DOT EMT curriculum and the principles of Wilderness Medicine integrated into a month-long, 240-hour training. This course includes all the information in the Wilderness First Responder curriculum and expands each topic in anatomy, physiology, recognition and treatment, and the extended care principles and protocols as outlined by the DOT EMT curriculum.

It is an intense, in-depth program designed for people who work, or plan to work, as professional mountain guides, outdoor leaders, professional pre-hospital medical personnel on fire departments, search and rescue squads, and ambulance crews, especially those working far from definitive care (e.g. on rural or wilderness rescue teams).

Learning takes place in the classroom, outdoor settings, ambulance ride-alongs and clinical observations. Classroom learning, practical skills development, mock scenarios, quizzes, tests, clinical observations and ambulance ride-alongs are all critical components of the course and students’ success.

This program investigates how Wilderness Medicine is practiced and how patients are treated at the professional level by guides and outdoor leaders, transferred to and treated by organized SAR, transitioned to Urban EMS and finally to definitive care/Emergency Room facilities.  Students will complete a 3 week DOT compliant Urban EMT module, followed by a 5 day Hybrid WFR module in which students adapt for remote and austere environments and explore the adaptations of wilderness medicine protocols.

Upon successful completion of the course and all exams, participants obtain the following:

-  3 year DMM WEMT certification

-  2 year DMM WAT (Wilderness Anaphylaxis Training)

-  2 year AHA BLS Provider certification

-  ICS 100, 700 & 800

-  2 year WY EMT certification

- National Registry of Emergency Medical Technician (NREMT) certification.

It is the responsibility of each student to find out how certification, licensure, continuing education and recertification work in her/his state of residence.

​Upon registration, students will be provided information on how to complete required background checks and immunization compliance before the start of the course.  

Registration for the course will close 30 days prior to course start for necessary pre-coursework, background checks and immunizations (required for ambulance ride -alongs) to be completed.

** Students wishing to take this course for college credit through Central Wyoming College (CWC) may do so at an additional per credit fee and is eligible for 9 credits.

WFA:

Our Wilderness First Aid (WFA) course is designed for the outdoor enthusiast, trip leader, raft guide, or land agency field staff who spend time in rural or wilderness areas. The WFA is a great introduction to wilderness medicine and basic life support skills. This training focuses on prevention, assessment, and treatment of environmental illnesses, recognizing and stabilizing life threats caused by trauma, and calling for a rescue in the event of a wilderness emergency.

Upon successful completion of your course, you will receive a 2- year certification through DMM and its curriculum is approved by the WMEC

(Wilderness Medicine Education Collaborative).

Certifications: Upon completion of this course you will receive the following.

-

DMM WFR Recertification (Valid 3 years)

-

WAT (Wilderness Anaphylaxis Training - Valid 3 years)

CPR/AED

As an American Red Cross Licensed Provider, we offer CPR.  This course teaches Adult CPR/AED and Child basic CPR skills such as performing a head tilt-chin lift, giving compressions and breaths, and calling your emergency response number (or 911). It provides a training for designated first responders, individuals needing credentialed training for job or regulatory requirements, or an entire workplace.

As with all our curriculum we incorporate a biological understanding of the nervous system’s intuitive and emotional workings and the importance of living a heart centered approach to life.

This is a three-and-a-half-hour course and meets all workforce requirements for CPR.

Certifications: Upon completion students receive a 2-year certification in Adult CPR/AED and Child CPR

WFA:

Our Wilderness First Aid (WFA) course is designed for the outdoor enthusiast, trip leader, raft guide, or land agency field staff who spend time in rural or wilderness areas. The WFA is a great introduction to wilderness medicine and basic life support skills. This training focuses on prevention, assessment, and treatment of environmental illnesses, recognizing and stabilizing life threats caused by trauma, and calling for a rescue in the event of a wilderness emergency.

Upon successful completion of your course, you will receive a 2- year certification through DMM and its curriculum is approved by the WMEC

(Wilderness Medicine Education Collaborative).

Certifications: Upon completion of this course you will receive the following.

-

DMM WFR Recertification (Valid 3 years)

-

WAT (Wilderness Anaphylaxis Training - Valid 3 years)