3-Day Wilderness Medicine Course for Medical Professionals (Oct 01 - 05, 2026) - Autumn

3-Day Wilderness Medicine Course for Medical Professionals is organized by ALPTERRA Family and will be held from Oct 01 - 05, 2026 in Franconia, New Hampshire, United States of America.

The  three day course includes session on October 2, 3, 4 - arrival on the 1st and departure on the 2nd.

Description:
Three-day CME courses for medical professionals that are limited to 8 participants, and customizable courses for individuals and groups of all backgrounds — including one-day options.

Each course is tailored to the background and goals of each participant.

What You’ll Do:
Courses include at least 20 scenario-based simulations in addition to dedicated time practicing skills. In every course, participants splint broken bones, dress wounds, reduce dislocations, diagnose and treat medical conditions, and make evacuation decisions — with weather, terrain, and distance from professional care factored into every choice.

You will place tourniquets and debate whether to move someone with a suspected spinal injury when hypothermia is developing. You will weigh the risks and benefits of cervical spine precautions and traction splints. You will make decisions with incomplete information, in the elements, under time pressure.

What participants consistently find is that the scenarios build more than clinical competence. Leadership, communication, triage, and composure under pressure are all stress-tested and sharpened — not as stated learning objectives, but as a natural consequence of working through difficult problems together.

Learning Outcomes:

• Prevention - Read a scene, anticiptate hazards, and act before problems compound.
• Assessment - Conduct a thorough patient survey under pressure, with the tools you have.
• Treatment - Manage wounds, fractures, dislocations, and medical emergencies with the resources available.
• Transport - Package and move a patient safely through technical terrain.

Included:

• On-site lodging with shared or private room options
• All meals and snacks, accomodated to dietary needs
• Course handbook and educational materials
• Two wilderness first aid kits – one traditional, one improvised
• Transportation to and from designated airports or Concord Coach drop-offs
• 16.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™

Three-Day CME Course Schedule:

Thursday evening – arrival

• Arrive between 4 and 6 PM
• Welcome dinner 

Friday – Sunday

• Day 1: Prevention, Assessment, Scenario Work
• Day 2: Treatment, Transport, Scenario Work
• Day 3: Improvised Medicine and Full Spectrum Scenarios
• Time each day before breakfast or in late afternoon to use the trail network accessible from the house to hike, run, mountain bike, cross-country ski, or snowshoe according to the season

Monday morning – departure

• Breakfast