This Month in the World of Wilderness Medicine

Course Highlight

One Weekend, Four Wildly Different Classrooms

Same dates. Same curriculum. Completely different backdrops. 

Four Wilderness First Aid (WFA) courses happening April 11–12, 2026. Whether you’re drawn to mountain towns or desert landscapes, there’s a WFA course to match your adventure style. 

Wilderness First Aid is the ideal introduction to wilderness medicine. Perfect for personal adventures and often required for outdoor education programs. Choose your location, pack your notebook (and maybe your hiking boots), and train where you love to play: 

• Ottawa Area (Cantley, QC, Canada) | Facilitated by: Boreal River Rescue  

• Idyllwild, California | Facilitated by: Adventure Risk Management  

• Charlotte, North Carolina | Facilitated by: Dynamic Wilderness Education  

• Las Vegas, Nevada | Facilitated by: Crane Marsh Wilderness Medicine  

No matter where you land, you’ll walk away with essential skills, increased confidence, and a certification that’s ready for your next adventure. 

Same weekend. Four locations. Click the button below to learn more! 

Conflict and Remote First Aid (CRFA) Pilot Course Update

If you’ve been following along, you may remember that the Conflict and Remote First Aid (CRFA) course recently underwent a curriculum update. The first offering of this revised course took place January 16–18 in Holly Springs, Mississippi, hosted by Kevin Hunt of Prepared Medical Response. We are so excited about its rollout! Kevin’s experience and expertise in conflict medicine was complemented by WMA International’s Curriculum Director, Julie Marie Anderson, who blended in real-life application of response to disaster areas, including field clinics, interagency team dynamics, and extended remote care. Together, the course filled a niche that organizations have been asking for, and that we trust will help them feel more prepared going forward.

This was a unique course given the fact that along side the students there were three WMA Instructors who shadowed the course to gain firsthand experience with the updated curriculum. Here’s what they had to say about the course:

“This course blends the traditional WFA framework with essential emergency and conflict first aid principles and prolonged care concepts. With diverse hands-on scenarios and repeated practice, participants gain practical experience while enhancing their first aid capabilities and critical thinking skills.” ">– Hsaio Chi Peng, WMA Taiwan

“I absolutely loved this course. I came in with no medical background, and it was incredibly educational. The instructors were fantastic! Very helpful, encouraging, and supportive, especially for someone starting from scratch.” – Aliza Kaplan, Student

“I believe the Conflict and Remote First Aid course delivers essential training for professionals operating in high-risk, remote settings. It focuses on immediate life-saving interventions through interactive drills and carefully crafted scenarios that reflect the demanding situations participants may encounter in the field. I consider this training imperative for anyone who may find themselves in these challenging environments.” – Hewett Brown, Dynamic Wilderness Education, LLC

“The combined emphasis on risk assessment, appropriate rapid life saving interventions and longer term management of people who are injured or sick makes this an ideal course for those serving communities affected by any event that compromises typical infrastructure such as disaster relief, conflict-affected areas and mass casualty incidents. The 3-day format allows for more time than a typical wilderness first aid class to cover triage and critical thinking for complex multi- patient scenarios.” – April Grisetti, Peninsula Wilderness Medicine

All participants appreciated the pocket guide, created just for this course and commented that the disaster medicine scenario on the last day of the course really pulled the content together in a practical, meaningful way.

Are you interested in hosting or attending a CRFA course? Reach out to one of the instructors linked in this article, or email to get connected!