Missionary Medicine & Wilderness First Aid
Be equipped with the knowledge and skills to prepare for international travel, medically care for others, and provide first aid when traveling to distant lands.
Register HereWho?
Anyone traveling the world in remote settings with minimal available health care, who wish to be equipped to provide medical care.
When?
Wilderness First Aid
August 1st - August 3rd
Where?
CRI MISSIONS BASE
2494 Camp Jaycee Rd. Blue Ridge, VA
Be the lifeline where medical aid is scarce
This is a training course designed specifically for disaster and crisis responders who plan on working around the world in potentially remote settings where there may be minimal available health care.
Be equipped with specialized knowledge, confidence, and skills to manage emergency situations in remote environments both for yourself and for others. Learn basic skills of: Response and Assessment, Musculoskeletal Injuries, Environmental Emergencies, Survival Skills, Soft Tissue Injuries, and Medical Emergencies.
Register HereTraining by SOLO Schools International
SOLO is the oldest, most innovative, and one of the most respected wilderness medical schools in the United States. The Missionary Medicine and Wilderness First Aid Course is certified training created by SOLO Schools International.
Designed to be taught over 2 or 3 days, this program takes about 18 hours to cover and practice all of the material. We believe that this is the minimum information that any missionary should have to stay healthy and be safe.
For more information on SOLO, click the link below.
Learn more about SOLOCourse Outline
What You Need to Know Before you Go:
- Travel Vaccines and Immunizations
- The Big Three – Food, Water, and Insects
- Food and Water -Water purification techniques
- Prevention of Insect Bites - Diseases transmitted by insect bites
- Air Travel and prevention of Pulmonary Emboli
Wilderness First Aid:
- Patient Assessment System:
- Life threats and the First Five Minutes
- Patient Assessment and Vital Signs
- Trauma:
- Soft tissue injuries
- Musculoskeletal Injuries
- Environmental Emergencies:
- The Human Animal
- Cold-Related Injuries
- Heat-Related Injuries
- Things that bite and sting
- Medical Emergencies:
- Changes in Level of Consciousness
- Chest pain
- Shortness of breath
- Abdominal pain