Internationally Accredited & Bespoke Wilderness Medicine Training

Self-Paced Online Learning | Hybrid Courses | Skills Stations & Scenario-Based Exercises In-Contrext

We design and deliver specialist training for teams preparing for expeditions, remote & wilderness roles. From short online modules to in-person adventure-based courses, we employ the flipped classroom approach, engaging participants from the outset through discussions, skills stations and scenario-based exercises, in-context. Maximising hands-on training develops currency, competence and confidence.

Recent training projects included:

  • Rescue, Expedition & Disaster Medicine (Guatemala & Nepal)

  • Expedition health & safety, media teams (Morocco, Chile)

  • Extreme cold weather safety, Film crews (Arctic Sea ice)

  • Prehospital trauma care for emergency ambulance services

  • Rescue and medical training for the extractives industry (mines and oil & gas) (Guatemala, Kurdistan, Iraq)

  • Wilderness First Aid (WFA) tourist industry (Guatemala & Tanzania)

  • Prehospital trauma care, Red Cross (Nicaragua)

  • Wilderness First Aid, Red Cross (Ecuador)

  • Tactical Medicine (TCCC & TECC) military & police (Colombia and Guatemala)

  • Wilderness First Aid, Search & Rescue Teams (Guatemala)

  • Close protection teams & embassy staff (UK, Afghanistan, Iraq, Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala)

  • Wilderness First Aid Mountain rescue teams, helicopter search & rescue teams (Guatemala)

  • Personal safety, HEFAT. film crews, news gathering teams (Ukraine)

  • First responder training, security teams (Ukraine)

  • Mountain medicine, US Physicians and nurses, Mexico

  • Advanced Wilderness Life Support, US Physicians, Guatemala

  • Personal safety, NGO, Mexico

  • Prehospital care, Galileo University, Guatemala

  • First responder, British Army Close Protection Unit

  • Search & Rescue

  • Helicopter Safety

  • Wilderness Medicine

  • Industry

  • Wilderness Medicine

  • Accident Management & Extrication

  • Hostile Environment First Aid

  • Water Rescue

  • Extreme Environment Survival, Safety & Medical

International Board of Specialty Certification (IBSC) Certified Wilderness Paramedic (WP-C)

SOS Medical Services is an approved continuing education provider for WP-C® Board Certification renewal having met the standards and requirements set forth by the International Board of Specialty Certification for their Rescue, Expedition & Disaster Medicine (RED MED) course.

RED MED Online is approved for a minimum of 16 contact hours of continuing education for WP-C® and online approved review courses

UK Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Credits

The Rescue Expedition & Disaster Medicine (RED MED) course has has been approved by the UK CPD Group for 47 CPD credits.

Both the online, hybrid and in-person courses are approved for CPD credits

Wilderness Medicine Society (WMS) Fellowship Credits

The RED MED Course: “This course has been approved for Fellowship in the Academy of Wilderness Medicine (FAWM) credits through the Wilderness Medical Society. Actual credits awarded depend on personal credit needs and history.”

US AMA Category 1 CME Credits

The RED MED Course: “The Wilderness Medical Society designates this enduring material activity for a maximum of 47.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)TM.

Each physician should only claim the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

“This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of the Wilderness Medical Society (WMS) and SOS Medical Services.

The WMS is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.”

Rescue Expedition & Disaster Medicine (RED MED)

Rescue, Expedition and Disaster Medicine (RED-MED) provides a platform for healthcare professionals working in, or aspiring to join, wilderness, rescue, expedition and disaster response teams. RED MED offers wilderness medical education courses ‘in-context’, combining adventure travel with specialist education.

  • First Aid

  • Basic Life Support

  • Wilderness First Aid

  • Prehospital Trauma Life Support (PHTLS)

  • Advanced Medical Life Support (AMLS)

  • Tactical Combat Casualty Care (TCCC)

  • All Hazards Disaster Response (AHDR)