COURSE DESCRIPTION
Essential for anyone who spends significant time in remote places or who has a professional career in the outdoors, the Wilderness First Responder [WFR] course will prepare you to make difficult medical decisions. This course is fast-paced and engaging. You'll spend half your time outside of the classroom doing hands-on skills and realistic scenarios. In addition to scenarios, you'll participate in a full-scale night mock rescue. WMI's curriculum encompasses a wide range of topics including long-term patient care, wound management, straightening angulated fractures, reducing dislocations, litter packaging and administering medications. You'll complete this course with the tools and confidence to manage patients in the backcountry for multiple days.

The intensive 80-hour curriculum is nationally recognized and supported by the Wilderness Medicine Institute's Medical Advisory Panel. You'll be taught by dynamic educators who have practiced both wilderness and urban medicine. This 10-day course is ideal for all professionals operating in remote environments. Heartsaver Adult CPR certification is included. The WFR course is pre-approved for 70 hours of EMT CEU’s by CECBEMS.

COURSE LOCATION
This class will take place on The University of Texas at Austin campus and will be conducted over a ten-day period. Mornings will be devoted to lectures and exams with afternoons focused on practical hands-on sessions and rescue simulations. Lectures will be indoors in a climate-controlled room, and scenarios/simulations will take place outdoors within a few blocks of the classroom.

Gregory Gym
2101 Speedway - Located at 21st and Speedway
Austin, TX 78712

CLASS FORMAT/ EQUIPMENT
Check in is at 7:45a on the first day of the course. Course days run from approximately 8:00a – 5:00p. Two evening sessions will also be scheduled. The format for this 80-hour WFR is classroom lectures integrated with practical scenarios, skills practice sessions, case studies, role-playing and simulated rescues. Attendance is required for all scheduled classes. Scenarios, and practice sessions will take place both inside and outside. Please bring outdoor clothing appropriate for laying on the potentially wet, muddy or snowy, cold ground playing the role of both rescuer and patient. Frequently stage [moulage] blood and make-up will be used to emphasize the reality of a scenario.

You will need: a large day pack with multiple layers, water bottle, waterproof tops and bottoms, sturdy shoes, headlamp or flashlight and a watch with a second hand. A 4-hour evening, outdoor mock rescue is part of the curriculum, so please dress accordingly. Textbooks and all course materials and workbooks will be given to each participant on the first day of class.

LODGING & MEALS
No lodging or meals are provided.

For recommendations on accomodations please visit: Local Accomodations

RELEASE FORMS
A UT and a WMI release will need to be completed and turned in prior to participating in this course.

PARKING
Free parking for this class will be in the “C” parking lot located on Red River. You will need to walk to Gregory Gym from this parking lot [approximately an 8-minute walk]. Additionally, the Brazos Parking Garage [located at 210 E. MLK and Speedway] is open to the public at $9.00 per vehicle per day. On weekends, most surface spaces are open. Please check all parking restriction signs before parking. Penalties are excessive and campus police monitor the parking lots heavily. The Division of Recreational Sports and WMI are not responsible for parking tickets issued.

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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
For questions about this course or for additional information contact Nicole Olmeda, Assistant Director, at 512-471-3116. For more information on WMI please visit www.nols.edu.

REGISTRATION
Payment in full or a deposit in the amount of $150 is required to reserve a space in this course. Refunds will be issued, less a $25 administrative fee, for those participants who cancel prior to November 30, 2007. No refunds will be issued after this date. Payment in full is due no later than December 14, 2007. Please make checks payable to The University of Texas at Austin.

You may consider your registration confirmed when you receive a confirmation e-mail. If you do not receive this information please call the Programs office at 512.471.3116.

Registration Methods:

Online: www.utrecsports.org

Mail: Mail-ins will be accepted on a first-come, first-served basis and will be processed in the order that they are received. Send completed form with payment to:

Division of Recreational Sports
1 University Station
GRE 2.204 [D7500]
Austin, TX 78712
ATTN: UT Outdoor Recreation Program

Fax: Send completed registration form, including credit card information, to our office at [512] 232-4150.

Walk-in: The Programs Office [Gregory Gym 2.204] is open from 8a-5p, Monday-Friday and 8a-6p on Wednesdays.