About our courses
Our courses are designed to prepare you for serious adventure medicine. From outdoor enthusiasts wanting to gain the skills to manage a remote casualty to seasoned expedition medics looking to take on more challenging roles, our courses provide you with the theoretical and practical skills to approach any situation with confidence.
Held in the beautiful west of Ireland, you will be treated to a fully immersive wilderness medicine experience delivered by our expert faculty. Utilizing the mountains and ocean around us we deliver theoretical and practical sessions covering a broad range of subjects covering all the key aspects of expedition and wilderness medicine. From immobilising a fractured limb on the side of a mountain, to retrieving a drowning victim with suspected C-Spine injury from the wild Atlantic waters, we go to extreme lengths to recreate the environments you will be working in. The course culminates by bringing together all the skills you have learnt into a high fidelity adrenaline-inducing search and rescue mission.
To top it off, included in the price of the course, are surf lessons from our qualified instructors, wetsuit and board rental, morning yoga sessions, delicious homemade food, evening beers, hot-tubs, bonfire and serious craic!
3 day wilderness medic course
€569
The 3 day wilderness medicine course is designed for people with medical training (paramedics, nurses, doctors or medical students) who want to gain the hands on knowledge and skills required to confidently deal with the sickest patients in the most challenging environments. Whether that’s as an expedition medic on a trek in the Himalayas’, an event medic in Ireland, or the only doctor on a plane on your way to a holiday, our course will allow you to approach any situation with confidence.
Some of the topics covered include: Basic and advanced airway management, wound care, fracture splinting, retrieval of c-spine injuries from the water, surf lifesaving basics, hypothermia, mountain safety and basic rope skills, radio communication, navigation, haemorrage control, altitude illness, expedition preparation and tropical medicine.