Axe ’Em, Jacks!
Be prepared for your next adventure by becoming a certified Wilderness First Responder. This five-day, blended-learning course combines classroom lessons with backcountry experience and skills. You'll learn how to diagnose and treat many ailments in the wilderness. Participants must be 18 years of age or older.
Program overview
This certification course is facilitated by a provider of Wilderness Medical Associates International. Why choose a Wilderness Medical Associates International provider?
- 30 hours of online pre-course preparation
- 40 hours of in-person training at SFA's Student Recreation Center
Individuals who don't complete the pre-course work won't be permitted to participate in the course and earn certification.
For more information regarding future course offerings, email outdoorpursuits@sfasu.edu.
Why Wilderness Medical Associates International?
- Based on nearly three decades of oversight and continual review by a faculty committee of medical practitioners, Wilderness Medical Associates International curriculum is established, proven and is based on conceptual learning and critical thinking.
- Instructors are medical professionals who are in the field doing what they teach. They are required to complete rigorous training and bring an unprecedented amount of experience to the courses they teach.
- Courses devote significant time to practical sessions and realistic rescue simulations that prepare students for the stress of actual emergency situations in the field.
- Teaching over 8,000 students annually, and having taught Wilderness First Responder and Wilderness EMT courses since the 1980s, Wilderness Medical Associates International is the "standard by which all other wilderness medical providers are judged."
Questions about the course?
Ethan Fatheree
Outdoor Pursuits Coordinator
936.468.1775
ethan.fatheree@sfasu.edu