Gaining a wilderness medicine certification is an asset to anyone’s resume. For many jobs a Wilderness First Aid (WFA) or Wilderness First Responder (WFR) certification is a requirement. In other cases, a certification isn’t required but opens up additional doors of opportunity for future work. Below is a reference of how your certification can help you in a wilderness medicine job.
The WFA is a two day wilderness first aid course. At baseline this course teaches you everything you would expect out of a basic CPR and first aid class while also expanding in to other common medical, trauma and environmental based injuries. All of this is accomplished with a wilderness based twist* to providing care. This 2 day course format allows for a lot more hands on practice and discussion of how to apply the training than a typical one day CPR & First aid class.