For CPR, WFA and WFR, there are no prerequisites. First-timers through medical professionals are welcome.

• Disasters
• Protests & Rallies
• Rural Life
• Summer Camps
• Travel anywhere
• Wilderness Adventures

This course could be best named “Beyond the Golden Hour First Aid” -- that is, first aid anytime, anywhere it will be more than one hour from time of injury until hospital arrival. How the injury or illness happened -- be it a hiker tripping and tumble-falling, someone shot in an active shooter or other terrorist attack, a car crash in a rural or remote travel area, a farming accident, an injured person blockaded from leaving a protest or rally to seek professional medical care, a natural-disaster-inflicted injury where EMS is overwhelmed or not able to access the patient due to blocked or washed-out roads, or your friend isn’t injured but feels ill or isn’t acting normally and you want to sleuth out why, how to treat, and when to seek professional medical care … the list goes on with countless situations in which it will be up to you to improvise medical care for hours or days before arrival at a hospital.

Bleeds, blisters, sprains, strains, fractures, electrocution, heat illnesses, allergic reactions, asthma attacks with empty or no inhaler, cardiac problems, infection, shock, etc. could happen in any of any of the aforementioned situations and countless others, and this course prepares, empowers, and gives you the hands-on confidence to handle these and many other injuries and illnesses no matter how, when, or where they happened. Most people don’t know what “Beyond the Golden Hour First Aid” means, so we call our two-day course “Disaster + Travel + Wilderness First Aid" and issue to graduates the world-renowned SOLO Wilderness First Aid certification card, immediately upon course completion.

We offer open enrollment CPR classes the Friday night before most of our classes in Charlottesville VA, and during our Mountain-top Retreat dtWFA Course in VA over Labor Day Weekend. In Virginia and surrounding states, you can request a private CPR class to be added to a dtWFA course the day before or after, or anytime if you have a group of at least 8 participants.

We wish we had time to include CPR in all of our classes. However, our 2-day dtWFA course is 5 hours longer than most any other WFA out there, with deeper learning and more hands-on practice than the standard 16-hour class- one comes out much more confident and skilled in administering WFA correctly. No time, unfortunately, to build in CPR into the two already-packed days. The good news is that our WFA class costs $60 per person less than a course offered by another big national provider of WFA courses, and it’s pretty easy to find a CPR class at a local rescue squad, community college, American Heart Association or Red Cross office, etc.

• Mini-Courses
• Advanced Wilderness First Aid Part II bridge (AWFA)
• Wilderness First Responder (WFR)
• Basic First Aid
• CPR/AED/Choking
• Camp First Aid
• Allergies, Analyphylaxis, and Epinephrine (Note: this short course’s topics are included in the dtWFA course)

Yes (internationally-renowned SOLO certification), with adequate skills performance and multiple-choice test score. Failing the written test almost never happens. If your skills are not developing as well as they should be, our instructor will do everything possible to give you one-on-one skills-coaching assistance and extra skill sessions as time permits, to get you to an adequate skills performance level -- so skills failure is rare.

• WFA (2-day or 3-day course): 2 years
• AWFA Part II (2 or 4 day course): 2 years
• WFR (9-day course): 3 years
• CPR (~3hour course): 2 years

Please see our How to Recertify web page.

Certainly! We offer gift cards if you would like to purchase it as a gift, or you can simply pay for someone else in the payment section of the registration form they're using, or here. In the latter case, please contact us to inform us for whom you just paid.

About a week prior to your course, we email all confirmed participants detailed instructions including a .pdf attachment, on what to bring, driving directions, optional carpooling and staying-at-another-participant’s-home opportunities (post-pandemic), and all other necessary information. If you need some of this information earlier, please contact us with exactly what you need to know sooner.

Sometimes yes for free! (1) With each course, we (post-pandemic) ask local participants if they’d be willing to host an out-of-towner; after registering we’re happy to put you in touch with anyone who made the offer. (2) The following locations only, might have free or small-fee camping, cabins, and/or dorms: IN: Indianapolis. NC: Triangle area east, Wilmington area. OH: Cincinnati area. VA: Nellysford, Richmond, Roanoke area, Thru-hiker town near Blacksburg. WV: Old Fields (AWFA Part II course) and Spruce Knob area (WFA and WFR courses).

Don’t worry! You can get a replacement card by submitting this form to SOLO headquarters, which controls the issuance of all replacement cards.

Yes, in many cases.

• Online-only courses: sorry, no refunds. If you need one extra month of viewing time, we are happy to oblige.
• Blended Learning students only: no refunds in part or whole but you have a 3-year credit to attend an open-enrollment MEDIC SOLO dtWFA course.
• If you register for a specific in-person class (not Blended Learning): the course fee is refundable (1) if you did not request the book to be shipped in advance [in which case, course fee is not refundable in whole or part], AND (2) you cancel ten days or more in advance, AND (3) at least sixteen other people are signed up for the class, AND (4) we are able to find a replacement for your spot (dropping out affects the learning of other students – when it comes to scenarios, an absence causes an odd number of students, making for incomplete scenario learning experiences). If you need to cancel fewer than ten days in advance, notification as soon as possible will be most appreciated; the instructor will try to work with you and find a replacement, however it likely will be too late. If you qualify for a refund, a fee of $30 will be retained, to cover our staff time of originally processing your registration, collaborating with you on your cancellation request, processing your refund, and reflecting your changes in our accounting system.