Wilderness Emergency Care

The Wilderness Emergency Care (WEC) program supports a family of courses to meet the needs of everyone with outdoor interests, from easy day trips to challenging and technical activities, including wilderness rescue. All of the courses provide hands-on practical training, to prepare you for wilderness emergencies.
The courses are designed to give you a lively and enjoyable learning experience. The textbook not only explains the concepts in clear language; it also shows you how to do all the skills, step by step, with many photos and drawings.
Basic Wilderness First Aid is an intensive 8-10 hour course for those who do wilderness recreation. It may also meet the needs of volunteers and professionals who lead groups on short trips in relatively low-risk situations, where they are not far from help.
Wilderness First Aid is a 16-20 hour course for those who do more serious wilderness activities. It is the choice of many wilderness trip leaders and guides. WFA presents wilderness topics in more detail, provides more time for skills practice, and also includes role-playing wilderness accident scenarios.

Wilderness First Responder is a 60-80 hour course for wilderness professionals and others who want a higher level of training, or require WFR certification. The course length may vary depending on whether the class has previous training, or does enough reading and preparation to reduce the need for lecture. Skills training is intensive, with many role-playing wilderness accident scenarios.