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Wilderness EMT Upgrade Course (February 24th-28th, 2010) - Chapel Hill, NC

We are offering a Wilderness EMT Upgrade Course that is designed for practicing medical professionals who want to build upon their clinical background to provide care in austere environments. This course will focus on "bridging the gap" between urban and wilderness emergency medicine with a special focus on topics such as environmental emergencies, equipment improvisation, envenomations, diving and altitude medicine, and the complexities of providing care where access to traditional resources is not an option.

This course is available to any currently certified or licensed healthcare provider. Our instructors are all experienced professionals. Our instructors are all experienced professionals, and this course will be centered around hands-on, scenario-based instruction with an emphasis on the latest evidence-based treatment guidelines.

- Course Fee: $200/person
- Group discounts available
- Upon successful completion of course requirements, participants will receive a three-year Wilderness Endorsement at their current level of practice, a waterproof photo credential and a limited edition T-shirt

Please contact us with any questions!

"Nights and Weekends" Wilderness First Responder Course (February 5th-14th, 2010) in Chapel Hill, NC

We will be offering the Wilderness First Responder (WFR) Course on Nights and Weekends from February 5th-14th in Chapel Hill, NC. This course is widely recognized as the "gold standard" medical course for guides, trip leaders, camp staff, and other outdoor professionals. This is a comprehensive course that covers a variety of topics from patient assessment and treatment of illnesses and traumatic injuries to the logistics of providing care in remote environments and foreign countries.

Our instructors are experienced professionals who are currently practicing Wilderness EMT's Paramedics and Physicians. Our course will be hands-on and scenario-based instruction with an emphasis on the latest evidence-based treatment guidelines.

We still have spaces available and would like to extend an invitation to those interested. The weeknight classes will be from 6-10pm and the weekend classes will be from 8am-6pm.

-Course Fee: $400/person

-Group Discounts Available

Upon successful completion of course requirements, participants will receive a 3 year certification as a Wilderness First Responder, a waterproof photo credential, and a limited edition T-shirt.

View a sample WFR Syllabus here:

http://www.lundycharters.com/maritime-and-wilderness-medicine/sample-wfr-syllabus

Please contact us with any questions!

Lundy Charters Begins Offering Custom Training Courses

Maritime and Wilderness Medical Training

Our Wilderness and Maritime Medical training courses always present up-to-date information and techniques. Our lead instructors are all active members of the Wilderness Medical Society and other professional organizations, and currently practice medicine in remote environments and are on the forefront of advances in the care and treatment of patients in the on land and at sea. Our goal is not only to teach the standard curricula, but also to help our students further understand the realities of providing care in the environments they will be working. Our courses are often taught onsite to groups using their own equipment. We understand that each of our students will face unknown challenges in the future so we help to better prepare them to face these challegnes by preparing them in the environment in which they will operate.

Wilderness and Maritime Medical care doesn’t happen in classrooms, it happens in the field. We locate our courses accordingly. Whether we are training a megayacht crew to respond to emergencies aboard the vessel anywhere in the world, a guide service working on Alaskan rivers, or an expedition to explore an unmapped wilderness; we specially design your course to give you the most realistic training experience available. When possible, we will bring the course to you and offer our training on your own equipment, in your area of operation.

Training Courses:
Wilderness First Responder (WFR)
Maritime First Responder
Wilderness First Aid
Medical Person In Charge (US Coast Guard

Waterborne illness at Sea....

Captain Jim underwent treatment for a waterborne illness while at sea during out last trip to the Bahamas.....more details to come......

More Pictures from Medwar

Courtesy of the organizers of Medwar we were able to acquire some pictures of the team during the race.

Jim Baker getting out of a canoe after being "mauled by a bear"

Alan Harper leads Brian Harper and Jim Baker through a section of swamp

Andrew Plyler follows Jim Baker through a deep section of swamp, we decided to jump for it.

Andrew Plyler makes a big splash jumping over a deep section of swamp.

Andrew Plyler gets medications out to treat a patient

Jim Baker and Alan Harper wet gauze to treat a "burn" that Brian Harper sustained at one of our medical scenario stations.

Brian Harper leads Jim Baker, Alan Harper, and Andrew Plyler as we hold our packs over our heads to cross a deep swamp.

Prerace briefings for all the competitors. You can see our team just under the Medwar Headquarters banner.

Attending the prerace briefing, Brian Harper and Jim Baker pictured on the left.

The Race

The race began around 1100 A.M. from a camp ground within Fort Gordon. The race course spanned eighteen miles and consisted of nine wilderness medical scenarios and twenty five questions stations. Our team scored perfectly on the wilderness medical scenarios and answered twenty of the twenty five questions correctly. The course was physically demanding and consisted of different sections, requiring the use of different outdoor skills. These sections involved: running, mountain biking, canoing, orienteering, and wading through north Georgia swamps.

We crossed the finish line 12th of 29 teams and are waiting for the results once the final time penalties for both questions and wilderness medicine scenarios are in......


The team before the start of the race. Jim Baker, Andrew Plyler, Alan Harper, and Brian Harper.

Brian Harper after the team completed a canoing section of the race

Wading through a north Georgia swamp while carrying packs over our heads

Alan Harper and Brian Harper changing gear after wading through the swamp

Andrew Plyler changing into fresh socks for the last half of the race after wading through the swamp


The soaking wet team just after the race. Brian Harper, Alan Harper, Jim Baker, and Andrew Plyler.


Brian Harper stretches after a hard race.