Your classroom will include on-site instruction in the heart of Sandia Mountains where you will learn first hand how to respond and treat any emergency in an austere environment.
Instructors are EMT’s and Paramedics with remote medicine, mountain rescue, military and educational experience. They will take you through various emergency scenarios, guaranteed to provide you with all the necessary mountain medicine skills.

Classes currently being offered: WILDERNESS FIRST RESPONDER (WFR) January 19th – March 13th 2010 (Every Tuesday/Thursday 6pm to 9pm at the EMS Academy) (All day Saturday mountain sessions: January 30th, February 20th, Friday March 12th overnight and half day Saturday March 13th)

Second 8-week semester class starting March 23rd – May 2010
The Wilderness First Responder course provides the student with classroom based and outdoor skill instruction. Upon successful completion of this 8 week, 72 hour course, students will be awarded a Wilderness First Responder course completion certificate from the UNM EMS Academy and a WFR certification card valid for 2 years from the American Safety and Health Institute. Students will also be eligible to obtain New Mexico EMS Bureau First Responder Licensure.

Note: This is a certificate only course. To enroll please contact the UNM EMS Academy at 505-272-5757

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Offered in the fall of 2010:

MOUNTAIN EMERGENCY PARAMEDIC / NURSE
Coming in the fall semester of 2010. Sign up now for certificate only, 505-272-5757. For UNM Credit follow the University enrollment process. For questions call Jodi Perry 505-272-1857.

It is a goal of the UNM EMS Academy to develop courses that are on the cutting edge of Mountain Medicine. This unique Mountain Medicine course is modeled after the UNM School of Medicine, Wilderness International Improvisational Medical School rotation that takes place every March throughout New Mexico for 4th year Medical Students and Residents. The EMS academy has also derived the course syllabus from the international Diploma in Mountain Medicine from the UIAA International Mountaineering and Climbing Federation and the International Society of Mountain Medicine (ISMM). In the near future we hope to have our courses endorsed by these pioneering organizations.

This course is intended for medical professionals who participate in mountain recreation or are mountain professionals such as guides or Mountain Rescue personnel with a current EMT- Intermediate, Paramedic or Nurse license. Upon completion of the course students will receive a course completion certificate from the UNM EMSA. If the participant is a licensed Paramedic he or she will hold the certificate title “Mountain Emergency Paramedic.” If the student is a licensed Nurse he or she will hold the certificate title, “Mountain Emergency Nurse.”

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