Why Choose Wilderness Medical Consultants

Here are some of the reasons we feel are important when choosing who is going to provide your first aid training:

• We are a Canadian company. We are based out of Golden, British Columbia. Our Team has spent most of their lives living, working and playing in Alberta and B.C. We know this area well and train you to deal with real emergencies in the environment you are actually living and working in.
• We are the only Canadian-based company that has a Medical Doctor as the Director of the company and the Lead Instructor.
• We offer courses from the introductory level (20 hours) all the way up to the professional level (80 hours). This means you can choose the course that most fits your needs.
• We offer custom courses. You tell us what YOU want and we’ll make it happen. Since we are a small company we have low administrative and overhead costs. This allows us to offer very competitive rates.
• We offer courses for Organizations. As an employer, you can contact us to set up a course for you that is convenient and we will set the curriculum to what YOU want us to cover.
• We aim to keep our class sizes small. This allows students to interact more and we provide more “hands on” instruction.
• The CPR plus AED portion of our course is certified by the Canadian Heart & Stroke Foundation and the card you receive will be valid everywhere! There is no chance that your employer will not accept your training because of lack of credibility.
• The Wilderness Medicine portion of our course is certified by the Emegency Care and Safety Institute (ECSI). Again, you will receive a card that will be accepted by any employer.
• We are members of The Wilderness Medicine Society (WMS) and we keep our curriculum current with any and all advances in the field.
• Our instructors are also the owners of the company. We take great pride in how we teach and we clearly have a vested interest in how well we run the course.
• We are both avid climbers, backcountry skiers and mountain bikers. We have a wealth of personal experience in the wilderness setting.
• We have the best instructor to student ratio of all wilderness first aid companies. We provide 2 instructors on every course. The maximum number of students per instructor is 8, but typically less.
• We have the same 2 instructors on every course. This allows for consistency and gives you the confidence to know who is going to be teaching your course.
• Please contact us if you would like to speak to someone who has taken one of our courses.