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Regarding Coronavirus / COVID-19:

 

Knowledge is power when it comes to viruses like COVID-19 as well as other viruses or pathogens such as the flu, MRSA, and C. Difficile.  As medical providers, we are the people who will be responsible for taking care of the sick; we must continue to learn how to control that risk and remember that COVID-19 is one of many pathogens we risk facing. 

 

MEDIC SOLO is pleased to provide 3 safe options for refreshing or first-time learning:

Disaster + Travel + Wilderness First Aid ("dtWFA"):

  1. "Blended Learning" online course** plus 3-year credit to attend an in-person MEDIC SOLO dtWFA class, the latter to solidify your skills and earn SOLO WFA certification.

  2. Online-only course** only for alumni of any wilderness medical school, to refresh your knowledge.  Online-only does not result in certification, recertification, or CEUs.

  3. In-person WFA certification / recertification course with added strict safety measures including:

    • 14-days pre-course illness screening questionnaire

    • Scan of each participant's body temperature each morning

    • Masks and eye protection worn at all times (we'll provide masks to those who don't have)

    • 6+ feet physical distance maintained as appropriate throughout class.

      • Best option:  students register with non-social-distancing partners and practice skills on each other, while distancing from everyone else.

      • Acceptable option:  attend alone and bring a homemade mannequin (stuffed pants & long-sleeve shirt) as your patient.

    • plus many more added safety precautions.

    In-person Certification Course Registration Form  Spaces are limited to just 9 people plus instructor where required.  This means we are losing money running the course, while we maintain prices the same as pre-COVID-19 times.  MEDIC SOLO is more dedicated to getting this education out there.  Limited spaces may fill quickly. 

** Our online dtWFA course includes:

 

Now is a time when your dtWFA skills may be needed most.

  • Hospital beds have been filling up and we need to reduce their demand.  If with dtWFA skills you treat someone and they no longer need to be team-rescued or go to the hospital, fantastic and so helpful in many ways.

  • Some parks are seeing their highest-ever mid-week daytime visits.  More people are outdoor adventuring and most don't have wilderness first aid skills, and may be in need especially as more first-timers go explore the outdoors.

  • Hopefully the following will never happen:  fewer EMTs staffing ambulances and thus a call to 911 for medical assistance is less responsive, or outbreaks occur within hospitals and those entire facilities end up being quarantined and unavailable ... leaving it up to dtWFA-trained folks to provide care.

 

A course feedback survey noted:  all graduates of our Disaster + Travel + Wilderness First Aid course are "safety bubbles"  -- wherever they might be, everyone around them is now much safer, thanks to their learning how to care for others anywhere, anytime help is not immediately available.   Whether you join us for learning or not, thank you for all that you do to strengthen our communities, making disaster and wilderness areas safer for all.

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Classes running with anti-COVID extensive pre-screening, temperature checking, strict 6'+ distancing & masks & goggles throughout, and many more safety measures for zero exposure.

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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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