Courses

Training Designed for the Wilderness

Learn life-saving skills from expert educators.

NOLS offers courses for a variety of skill levels and needs, from initial training for outdoor enthusiasts up to recertifications for outdoor professionals.

Each course provides different skills, scenarios, and depth of curriculum specific to your needs.

Find your course below or check out our course comparison chart.

Get Certified

Step forward on your next adventure with the preparation, confidence, and knowledge that comes with a wilderness medicine certification.

Wilderness First Aid

2-day course designed for outdoor recreationists like hikers, campers, and boaters to gain confidence in managing common injuries and illnesses in the outdoors.

Police Officers carrying a patient into a hospital room as a team

Wilderness Advanced First Aid

4-day course designed for outdoor recreationists like hikers, campers, and boaters to gain confidence in managing common injuries and illnesses in the outdoors.

Wilderness First Responder

9- or 10-day course designed for outdoor professionals to respond to emergencies and make decisions in remote environments.

Course participants work together to perform a spinal assessment on a patient during a scenario.

Hybrid Wilderness First Responder

3 modules of online learning and 5 days of in-person learning.

Wilderness EMT

1-month course offering EMT training and certification combined with skills for providing pre-hospital care in the wilderness.

Recertify

Keep your skills sharp and your certification valid.

See all options for recertifying your wilderness medicine credentials.

A Wilderness EMT student stands in front of a helicopter at the NOLS Wyss Campus.

Medical Professionals

NOLS courses for medical professionals (PA, RN, EMT, MD, etc.) offer CMEs and are designed to help you adapt your urban medical knowledge to remote settings. In the wilderness, you may have minimal access to equipment and your ability to improvise is crucial to your patient’s well-being.

Students attentively gathered around an instructor giving a hands-on lesson, about medicine.

Instructor Training Course

Join the NOLS team as an instructor. NOLS instructors are, first and foremost, intentional educators who teach the recognition, treatment, and prevention of wilderness emergencies across all our courses.

Learn more about teaching wilderness medicine for NOLS.