WFR with CPR - 80 hrs
HIGHEST LEVEL OF TRAINING
66% classroom : 33% practical

What: In-depth wilderness medicine education and thorough development of decision making and practical skills - world standard in outdoor emergency medical care.
Who: Ideal for lead guides, those looking to increase their experience and qualifications, and independent outdoor enthusiasts.  Prior experience strongly encouraged; not for beginners.  *Strong English language skills required.

Key Course Components:
• Scene assessment
• Patient assessment
• Identifying life threatening injuries
• Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR)
• Caring for injuries and illnesses including
     - stopping bleeding
     - cleaning and caring for wounds
     - managing and splinting fractured bones and joints snake bites
• Safely moving patients
• Injury and illness prevention
• Long-term injury and illness management
• Improvised litter construction
• Environmental emergencies
• Honing assessment, critical thinking and decision skills
• Practicing technique

Study required before and during course.

**Final written and practical exams.

Internationally recognised WFR and CPR certification from SOI

WFR certifications are valid for two years and recognised by other reputable wilderness medicine education providers.  Recertifications must be completed within three years of last course, and re-taking the entire WFR is encouraged every six years to maintain the highest level of proficiency and competency.

The Wilderness First Responder is the quintessential course to prepare students to manage a medical emergency.  Beyond teaching students the skills to treat patients, this course provides an emphasis on properly assessing the situation and building the skills to determine the correct plan of action and carry it out.  A great amount of time is devoted to honing skills and techniques through practice scenarios.

‡Fully-catered tented accommodations are available.

RMCR no CPR - 24 hours 
HIGHEST LEVEL OF TRAINING 

What: Developing strategies for accident prevention and care for your organisation.
Who: Organisation managers.

Key Course Components:
• Developing better accident and illness prevention strategies
• Providing evacuation guidelines and criteria for staff in the field
• Setup and activation of evacuation plans
• Coordinating and managing time and resources effectively during a crisis
• Developing the confidence and experience required in today’s litigious world to be able to make the right call at the right time
• Developing strategies to train and manage staff in emergency preparedness
• Developing improved skills to deal with crisis, challenging client situations, and fatalities
• Determining the needs of individualised, program specific, first aid kits
• Understanding basic assessment and care strategies for a wide array of injuries and illnesses from immediate needs through extended or postponed evacuations
• Basic understanding of improvised splints, stretchers, and other available technologies to aid emergency response

IWM and RMCS certification from SOI

What are your guides trained to do in emergency situations?  How do you respond to support their efforts?  Are you prepared to break the news of tragedy to a client’s family at home?  What resources do you have in place to improve outcomes?  These are common questions tour operators, program managers, guide service owners, land managers, and many other supervisory/management level personnel have.  With these questions in mind, Sentinel Outdoor Institute offers a course specifically designed for company supervisors, managers, and owners with an emphasis on operations in East Africa.

‡Fully-catered tented accommodations are available.