Wilderness Medicine Training
Instruction, Scenario-Based Practice, and an Organized Approach to Wilderness Emergencies
Three-day CME courses for medical professionals that are limited to 8 participants, and customizable courses for individuals and groups of all backgrounds — including one-day options.
Each course is tailored to the background and goals of each participant.
What You’ll Do
Courses include at least 20 scenario-based simulations in addition to dedicated time practicing skills. In every course, participants splint broken bones, dress wounds, reduce dislocations, diagnose and treat medical conditions, and make evacuation decisions — with weather, terrain, and distance from professional care factored into every choice.
You will place tourniquets and debate whether to move someone with a suspected spinal injury when hypothermia is developing. You will weigh the risks and benefits of cervical spine precautions and traction splints. You will make decisions with incomplete information, in the elements, under time pressure.
What participants consistently find is that the scenarios build more than clinical competence. Leadership, communication, triage, and composure under pressure are all stress-tested and sharpened — not as stated learning objectives, but as a natural consequence of working through difficult problems together.
Learning Outcomes
Prevention
Read a scene, anticiptate hazards, and act before problems compound.
Assessment
Conduct a thorough patient survey under pressure, with the tools you have.
Treatment
Manage wounds, fractures, dislocations, and medical emergencies with the resources available.
Transport
Package and move a patient safely through technical terrain.
Cost
Upcoming Three-Day CME Course Dates
Autumn
October 1-5, 2026
October 8-12, 2026
Winter
TBA
Included
- On-site lodging with shared or private room options
- All meals and snacks, accomodated to dietary needs
- Course handbook and educational materials
- Two wilderness first aid kits – one traditional, one improvised
- Transportation to and from designated airports or Concord Coach drop-offs
- 16.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™
three-day cme Course Schedule
Thursday evening – arrival
- Arrive between 4 and 6 PM
- Welcome dinner
Friday – Sunday
- Day 1: Prevention, Assessment, Scenario Work
- Day 2: Treatment, Transport, Scenario Work
- Day 3: Improvised Medicine and Full Spectrum Scenarios
- Time each day before breakfast or in late afternoon to use the trail network accessible from the house to hike, run, mountain bike, cross-country ski, or snowshoe according to the season
Monday morning – departure
- Breakfast
CME Accreditation Statement
This course is approved for up to 16.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™.
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 Hanley Center for Health Leadership and Education and ALPTERRA Medicine.
The Hanley Center is accredited by the Maine Medical Association Committee on Continuing Medical Education and Accreditation to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
The Hanley Center for Health Leadership and Education designates this live activity for a maximum of 16.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™.
Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.