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MEDIC SOLO Disaster + Wilderness Medical School

 

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-Below is our very old website.

 

 

SOLO Logo + Home Page Link   

Walkabout Outfitter Logo + Home Page Link

Great Outdoor Provision Co. Logo + Home Page Link

 

 

About:  MEDIC, SOLO, GOPC, W.O., and BRMS

 

MEDIC:

  • Stands for:  Medical Education:  Do-it-yourself Injury Care
  • Is the corner of SOLO* in Virginia and surrounding states
  • Offers the most in-depth 2-day first aid course one can find, with five hours more hands-on practice and instruction than the standard 16-hour courses out there -- often for a much lower price.

 

*SOLO:

  • The oldest continuously-operating school of wilderness medicine on the planet.
  • One of very few wilderness medical schools run by a physician, to whom the Wilderness Medical Society (of mostly physicians) presented their highest award, for his being a founding father of wilderness medicine on the planet.
  • Staff continuously develops state-of-the-art evidence-based disaster, international travel, and wilderness medical science.
  • Main campus in New Hampshire.
  • Instructors live and teach throughout the USA and abroad.

 

                               

 

Great Outdoor Provision Co. (GOPC) and Walkabout Outfitter (W.O.)

  • Great Outdoor Provision Co.:  starting in 2016 with its 9 outdoor gear and apparel stores across North Carolina and Virginia, and
  • Walkabout Outfitter:  starting in 2017 with its 6 outdoor gear and apparel stores in other areas of Virginia,
  • GOPC and W.O. chose and continue to partner with and sponsor MEDIC to bring wilderness medical education to all of the communities they serve.  These sponsorships continue indefinitely, enabling folks to take the Disaster + Travel + Wilderness First Aid certification course for $185 (as of 2017) instead of the $265 another major outdoor retailer charges -- a savings of $80 to community members.  Moreover, as a further way to give to their communities, for each class GOPC or W.O. and MEDIC deliver together, they donate 10% of the proceeds to a local nonprofit organization.

 

Blue Ridge Mountain Sports (BRMS):

  • Starting in 2011 with its 12 outdoor gear and apparel stores across New Jersey, Virginia, and Tennessee, BRMS chose to partner with and sponsor MEDIC to bring wilderness medical education to all of the communities it served.  This wonderful partnership delivered 65 courses and lasted until 2016, when BRMS' stores closed down.

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Jan. 16-17, 2021:

Norfolk area, VA

Jan. 23-24:

Farmville, VA

Jan. 30-31:

Harrisonburg / Staunton area, VA

Feb. 20-21:

Richmond, VA

Wilmington area, NC

Feb. 27-28:

Norfolk area, VA

Mar. 6 - 7:

Chattanooga area, TN

Spring weekends t.b.d., tentative:

CO Springs, CO

Denver, CO

Grand Junction, CO

Greeley, CO

Indianapolis, IN

Mar. 20-21:

Charlottesville, VA

Mar. 27-28:

Norfolk area, VA

Washington DC area

Apr. 10-11:

Lexington, VA

PhiladelphiaPA area

Apr. 24-25:

Richmond, VA

Triangle area west, NC

May 8 - 9 or 15-16:

Charlottesville, VA

May 15-16:

Norfolk area, VA

May 22-23:

Triangle area, NC

May 29-31 (3 days):

Mountains retreat above Blacksburg, VA

June 5 - 6:

Washington DC area

June 19-20:

Charlottesville, VA

June 26-27:

Advanced WFA Pt II, Old Fields, WV

Sep. 4 - 6 (3 days):

Mountains retreat above Blacksburg, VA

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Learn how to save life & limb when / where pro help is not immediately available.

"Wilderness" = Time of injury/illness to hospital arrival > 1 hour.

= Natural or rural area, remote travel, and natural or terrorist disaster zones

 when & where EMS is overwhelmed, and cellphone towers are jammed.

 

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