Provide the most current extended-care medical education across the globe.
SOLO Schools International will arm you with the specialized knowledge, confidence and skills to manage an emergency situation in remote environments – where conventional medical staffs, equipment and facilities are at least 100 miles away.
SOLO Schools International helps you to master the three W’s in this unique survival training:
What have I got? Where am I going? What am I going to do about it?
Learn how to keep a cool head in a wilderness crisis.
Learning to think critically and improvise in a crisis are the keys to success. As part of our hands-on scene safety training, SOLO Schools International will help you to assess, think critically, respond and take charge in a wilderness emergency.
CONDUCTED IN ACCORDANCE WITH CDC AND STATE GUIDELINES
The SOLO Crisis First Aid course benefits civilians and volunteers that find themselves in a major crisis event in which the healthcare system is overwhelmed. 90% Of casualties in war zones die before reaching medical treatment. It is therefore vital that civilians are aware of mortality risks immediately following injury and are trained in how to spot and treat such injuries. The 2-day SOLO Crisis First Aid course is an introduction to fundamentals of emergency medicine, first responder skills and technical training in extended-care settings. This is a module of a more comprehensive course and equips volunteers to sustain life until hospital care can be reached or arrives on scene.
ON-SAFARI Wilderness First Aid (AWFA) course is offered in East Africa for professional guides and other safari enthusiasts. over 5 days students receive an introduction to the concepts of medical care in African savannah, mountain and wilderness settings. Course instruction emphasizes basic life support skills, minor and intermediary trauma, specific tropical and equatorial environmental topics, spine assessment protocol, allergic and anaphylactic reactions, and common medical emergencies encountered in the backcountry. AWFA features daily innovative lectures and continual hands-on skills practice through multiple, realistic scenario-based simulations.
Designed to provide unique skills to providers at or above the level of EMT dealing with challenging disaster situations or remote settings in developing countries. Students must already have their WFR certification as well as an urban medical certification to attend.
The SOLO Missionary First Aid (MFA) course is an introduction to the concepts of medical care in remote, wilderness settings. Course instruction emphasizes recognizing and treating tropical diseases, travel medicine, preventative pre-travel precautions to take, in addition to the standard WFA topics of: basic life support skills, minor trauma, specific environmental topics, spine assessment protocol, allergic and anaphylactic reactions, and common medical emergencies encountered in the wilderness of developing nations. MFA features daily innovative lectures and continual hands-on skills practice and simulations, centered on and integrated with the text and principles of the Biblical Word of God.
SSI’s Missionary Wilderness First Responder (M-WFR) takes the outdoor and recreation industry’s U.S. standard of wilderness medical training for wilderness guides, expedition leaders, and outdoor instructors, to a higher level. Designed for missionaries and expedition leaders intent on traveling "to the ends of the earth," this course will prepare you with the extensive and critical training necessary to maintain your personal health and the health of your team, build your faith, and firm your foundation with supporting instruction from proven medicine and the Bible. Modules on tropical and equatorial diseases, precautionary and travel medicine compliment the standard wilderness and medical topics of a standard WFR. The course includes adult, child, and infant CPR and AED certification.
The SOLO SI Wilderness First Aid (WFA) course is an introduction to the concepts of medical care in wilderness settings. Course instruction emphasizes basic life support skills, minor trauma, specific environmental topics, spine assessment protocol, allergic and anaphylactic reactions, and common medical emergencies encountered in the backcountry. WFA features daily innovative lectures and continual hands-on skills practice and simulations.
Wilderness First Responder (WFR) is the outdoor and recreation industry’s standard for wilderness medical training, designed specifically to meet the needs of wilderness guides, expedition leaders, and outdoor instructors. If you are an outdoor professional, you and your clients and colleagues will greatly benefit from this extensive and critical training. The course includes adult, child, and infant CPR and AED certification.
Wilderness Advanced First Aid (WAFA) is designed for the recreational enthusiast seeking accelerated wilderness first aid training, including treating lightning injuries, stings and bites, fractures and sprains, and managing spine injuries. The course emphasizes situational awareness beyond coursework covered in the Wilderness First Aid course.
The Wilderness Emergency Medical Technician (WEMT) course is SOLO SI’s flagship medical program. It is an intense, in-depth, month-long program designed for people who need a higher level of training.
The WEMT is 170+ hours long (typically taught in 19 days, spread out over four weeks, with weekends off), and combines the standard Department of Transportation Emergency (DOT) Medical Technician curriculum with wilderness-specific medical training that focuses on long-term care (our WFR curriculum).
Our Lead Instructors
One of the few medical practitioners who has come up through the emergency medical ranks from EMT to physician assistant to physician, Frank graduated from UNECOM in 1991. Along the way he founded SOLO the first wilderness medical school where he taught “unorthodox” techniques that ultimately became accepted as credible and valuable skills for those in the backcountry or disaster setting.
Frank worked as a ski patrol director, rescue squad captain, and mountain rescue member before graduating from medical school. He is the past president of the American Alpine Club medical committee and past vice president of the European UIAA (International Union of Alpine Associations) Medical Commission. Frank currently serves as the medical director for NH Region V EMS Council and is a 28-year representative on the NH EMS Medical Control Board and NH EMS Coordinating Board. As a founding partner of Saco River Medical Group, Frank is the Director of Conway Walk-In Care center and Spine Center. In recent years Frank has also been teaching and providing medical care in Africa and Haiti in addition to working on SOLO publications through TMC Books publishing company.
Born in Zimbabwe, Africa and raised on a 31,000 acre cattle and game ranch, Rowan grew up rugged in the bush and as a result has a very unique and time tested set of wilderness skills. Both he and his father were Professional Hunters and spent a great deal of time guiding wildlife safaris, working cattle, riding horses, and promoting conservation through local education programs.
Rowan came to know SOLO after a motor vehicle accident in Zimbabwe. He found his way to a Wilderness First Responder course that SOLO was doing in Nsongwe, Zambia at the time. From that course he came to SOLO, became a Wilderness EMT and SOLO instructor. In Africa Rowan worked logistics for Doctors Without Borders through cholera epidemic- and political violence responses, then spent 7 weeks in Haiti after the earthquake coordinating SOLO’s medical relief work there.
His deep connection to African life, culture and conservation has helped put SOLO trained providers on the slopes of Kilimanjaro, the safari plains of Maasai Mara and Zambezi Valley anti-poaching teams protecting endangered black rhinos and elephants.
Reality sets in fast when you need to manage a medical emergency in a remote environment in less than ideal circumstances. Get the knowledge, skills and practical experience you need to be confident in any situation, any environment, anytime. Contact us today.
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