Our next public WMSO will run June 15-19, 2026 at EKU’s Maywoods Lodge. This course is SOLD OUT. If you’d like to place on a waitlist for cancellations, contact david.fifer@redstarmedical.org

TO REGISTER as an individual, —>click this link<— for our Google Forms-based registration form. For group reservations, contact course coordinator David Fifer at david.fifer@redstarmedical.org. Registration closes after 20 seats, and registrations beyond that number will be placed on a wait-list for any cancellations.

The WMSO course is intended for any licensed/certified medical professional, or medical professional in training, who has an interest in wilderness medicine. This course balances didactic learning with realistic, hands-on scenarios that emphasize technical skill. This course is an approved WP-C review course by the International Board of Speciality Certifications.

A pre-requisite for this course is a professional healthcare certification, such as EMT, Paramedic, RN, APRN, PA, MD/DO, or status as a student in such a field. This is not a WFA/WFR course and is not intended to be an introduction to patient care. This course stresses clinical interventions to be performed by healthcare professionals working for healthcare system, under physician medical direction, or at the practitioner level.

Our instructors are physicians, paramedics, nurses, and EMTs who are active members of wilderness rescue teams and nationally-known subject matter experts.

Topics covered include:

• Rescue Medicine
• Airway management
• Communications
• Pharmacology
• Prolonged Field Care
• Animal, Insect, Arthropod, & Marine envenomations
• Avalanche Response
• Dive Medicine
• HEENT problems
• High Altitude Problems
• Hyperthermia, Hypothermia & Frostbite treatment
• Wilderness Infectious Disease
• Lightning Injuries
• Medical kits & Specialized Equipment
• Medical Problems
• Patient Movement in the Wilderness
• Patient Assessment
• Patient Packaging, Evacuation, and Rope Rescue
• Submersion Injuries
• Water Disinfection & Purification
• Wound & Musculoskeletal Injuries Management

Registration price is $1,000, and includes an on-site lodging option in semi-private bunk-style accomodations (see the student course guide as well as the information, below). Registration closes after 20 paid-in-full seats.

Price covers 40+ hours of instruction and lodging, either in semi-private bunk house accommodations (3-4 twin mattress bunk beds per room, separated in male & female wings containing several rooms, with male/female bathrooms and individual showers) or camp sites. Price does NOT include food. The venue features a well-equipped commercial kitchen, with generous refrigerated storage for personal food/drink items.

TO REGISTER as an individual, —>click this link<— for our Google Forms-based registration form. For group reservations, contact course coordinator David Fifer at david.fifer@redstarmedical.org.

The student course guide is below, with a download link beneath the preview. If viewing on a mobile device, it may appear as a small link entitled “wmso-info-packet-2026.pdf.”