Adventure RX Series (All 4 Sessions)

$800.00
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Adventure Rx is a quarterly, hands-on event series presented by Whatcom County EMS and Backcountry Medical Guides. Designed for healthcare professionals, first responders, and wilderness-savvy community members, each session delivers dynamic, scenario-based field training in real outdoor environments.

Session One of the series is approved for up to 8 hours of AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s) and Washington State EMS continuing education credit.

Sessions can be taken individually—no prerequisites—or as a complete seasonal series.

Seasonal Focus:

  • Fall – Wilderness Medicine Essentials Part 1 - Rescue Operations & Prolonged Field Care

  • Winter – Mountain Medicine: Avalanche, Snow Immersion, Cold Injuries, & Altitude

  • Spring – Wilderness Medicine Essentials, Part 2 - Spring Sports, Remote Orthopedic Care, Infectious Disease, & Travel Medicine

  • Summer – Maritime Medical - Medicine-At-Sea & Marine Rescue Scenarios

Adventure Rx blends seasonal skills, real-world patient care challenges, and immersive team-based problem-solving—so you leave prepared to handle the unexpected, wherever it happens.

Adventure Rx is a quarterly, hands-on event series presented by Whatcom County EMS and Backcountry Medical Guides. Designed for healthcare professionals, first responders, and wilderness-savvy community members, each session delivers dynamic, scenario-based field training in real outdoor environments.

Session One of the series is approved for up to 8 hours of AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s) and Washington State EMS continuing education credit.

Sessions can be taken individually—no prerequisites—or as a complete seasonal series.

Seasonal Focus:

  • Fall – Wilderness Medicine Essentials Part 1 - Rescue Operations & Prolonged Field Care

  • Winter – Mountain Medicine: Avalanche, Snow Immersion, Cold Injuries, & Altitude

  • Spring – Wilderness Medicine Essentials, Part 2 - Spring Sports, Remote Orthopedic Care, Infectious Disease, & Travel Medicine

  • Summer – Maritime Medical - Medicine-At-Sea & Marine Rescue Scenarios

Adventure Rx blends seasonal skills, real-world patient care challenges, and immersive team-based problem-solving—so you leave prepared to handle the unexpected, wherever it happens.

For Session One (November 2, 2025): This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements of the Washington State Medical Association through the joint providership of PeaceHealth St. Joseph Medical Center and Backcountry Medical Guides. PeaceHealth St. Joseph is accredited by the WSMA to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

PeaceHealth St. Joseph Medical Center designates this live activity for a maximum of 8 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. (1 hour = 1 credit)

Audience

  • Primary: In hospital staff: RN, PA, MD, Field: EMS personnel, ski patrol, SAR teams

  • Secondary: Outdoor professionals, guides, educators, and engaged laypeople

Format

  • Frequency: Once per quarter

  • Duration: Full-day (8 hrs) depending on season and content

Goals & Outcomes

  • Strengthen regional preparedness and community response capacity

  • Create a gateway for professionals to pursue advanced training

  • Promote cross-sector collaboration in austere and remote care

  • Lecture Topics

    • Delayed evacuation considerations

    • Pain management in remote settings

    • Medical kits, infection, hydration and nutrition

    Skills Stations

    • Building improvised shelters & splints

    • Field meds & pain control scenarios

    • Telehealth & SOAP note under duress

  • Lecture Topics

    • Avalanche physiology & asphyxia

    • Frostbite & cold injury updates

    • Team dynamics in austere conditions

    Skill Stations

    • Beacon/probe/shovel drills

    • Prolonged CPR in snow rescue

    • Team-based rescue simulation in snow or simulated avalanche debris

  • Lecture Topics

    • High-velocity ortho injuries

    • TBI field decision-making

    • Search & rescue coordination

    Skill Stations

    • Fracture management with improvised gear

    • Spine motion restriction in variable terrain

    • Evacuation planning on trail systems

  • Lecture Topics

    • Cold water immersion & hypothermia

    • Marine trauma & drowning

    • Radio comms & maritime evacuation plans

    Skill Sessions

    • Hypothermia rewarming setups

    • CPR & AED use on vessels

    • VHF radio simulations & patient packaging on unstable surfaces