Aerie Backcountry Medicine

Registration Details

This course is full and cannot accept additional registrations.

Please check out course schedule for alternative courses.

COVID-19 & Travel Considerations:

Due to COVID-19, the State of Montana and/or the Missoula City-County Health Department may impose travel restrictions or quarantine procedures for those coming into the Missoula area. At the time of this writing, there are no such policies in place. However, depending on COVID-19 that may change at any time. Call or email our office for additional information.

Course Information:

Wilderness EMT

Missoula, MT

Aug 2, 2021 - Aug 27, 2021

Wilderness EMTs take foundational EMT skills into austere locations, with hazardous environments and limited resources. Wilderness EMTs are taught to adapt to these challenges with numerous extensive, realistic scenarios and case studies. Click here for more information. Upon successful completion of course requirements, students are eligible for the National Registry EMT and the State of Montana EMT certifications. This WEMT is offered for 3 University of Montana credits, ECP 331, for an additional fee ($155), paid directly to the University of Montana.

SCHEDULE: Class will be held from 8am-6pm each weekday. Although class is not held over the weekend, students may be assigned clinical observation time at a local hospital. A weekend days or nights will be used to complete clinical time. These will be scheduled shortly before the course begins.

COST: $2,750. Includes all course materials and fees for the practical exam. Room and board are not included or provided.

Additional costs may include registration for the NREMT, immunizations and testing.

LOCATION: Missoula, MT - Missoula College Room 449 and Lubrecht Forest August 26th-27th

COST: $2750 -deposit of $1000 is due at the time of registration.

You can use alternate sources of funding such as AmeriCorps or G.I. Bill® and we do offer payment plans. Room and board are not provided or included in the course cost.

PREREQUISITES: This course can be intense and does require some preparation before the first day. Students must have no prior felony's and be 18 years of age or older; younger students may take the class with approval but must be 18 within two years of course completion to take the National Registry Exam. Must submit 2- negative TB tests, vaccination records (contact the Aerie office for a list), and a self query by July 1st, 2021. If you can't meet this deadline please contact the Aerie office to make other arrangements. You may turn it these documents through mail, fax or email. We are unable to accept picture of medical records due to formatting issues (this includes having a JPEG and exporting it as a PDF), it challenges its validity. You will be asked to resubmit and this delay may cause you to miss the submission deadline.

TEXTBOOK: Students are required to purchase the EMT textbook used for this course. It can be new, used, PDF or rented and the accompanying workbook is up to you but is not required by Aerie Backcountry Medicine "Prehospital Emergency Care (11th Edition)- Joseph Mistovich

ISBN-13: 978-0134704456

ISBN-10: 0134704452

NOTE: We highly discourage students from using previous versions of this textbook as curriculum points are outdated.

More information with all the course details will be emailed to every student before the course begins. Please be sure that your email is current and working.

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