Wilderness Medicine Course
What will I learn?
Learn all the important things about treating people in the bush with our Bush Medicine Course. It's made for doctors, nurses, and other health workers who want to be better at helping people far from town. You'll learn how to clean cuts, keep them from getting infected, and stitch them up good even when you don't have much. You'll also learn how to plan to get people out of the bush in an emergency, how to help people with altitude sickness, and how to keep people alive even when you don't have a lot of medicine or equipment. We'll teach you the newest things so you can take the best care of people when you're out in the bush.
Apoia's Unique Features
Develop skills
Enhance your practical skills in the areas listed below.
Take care of cuts good: Clean them, put medicine on them, and stitch them up right even when you're far from town.
Stop infections: Learn how to keep cuts from getting infected even when things ain't clean like in the hospital.
Plan how to get people out: Know how to decide if someone needs to be taken to the hospital and how to get them there.
Help with altitude sickness: Know how to tell when someone has it, how to stop it, and how to make them feel better.
Use what you got good: Learn how to take care of people even when you don't have much medicine or equipment in the bush.
Suggested summary
Workload: between 4 and 360 hours
Before starting, you can modify the chapters and the workload.
- Choose which chapter to start with
- Add or remove chapters
- Increase or decrease the course workload
Examples of chapters you can add
You will be able to generate more chapters like the examples below
This is a free course, focused on personal and professional development. It is not equivalent to a technical, undergraduate, or postgraduate course, but it offers practical and relevant knowledge for your professional journey.