
Hybrid Wilderness First Responder Initial Certification (1:1)
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Course Details
Available: Oct 15–Oct 28, 2026 | Greenwood, NY, USA
70 Hours: 35 Online + 35 In-Person
LISTING ID: L5124
Course Description
Overview
The most efficient Wilderness First Responder initial certification available: one-on-one or small group wilderness medicine training on YOUR schedule!
Best if you’re on an urgent timeline, can't wait for a public class, want to train with your own group, or want personalized instruction.
Hybrid format combines self-paced online study with in-person scenarios and skills training with an authorized Survival Med instructor.
How It Works
- Contact your instructor directly
- Coordinate a convenient time, date, and location
- Get your price
- Complete the self-paced online course
- Complete in-person training
- Same-day certificate download!
Includes
- Two-year Wilderness First Responder initial certification
- Free Wilderness EMT upgrade if you have a current state EMS license or NREMT certification
- Two years of course access
- 35 hours of self-paced online training
- 35 hours of in-person scenarios and hands-on skills practice led by a Survival Med-authorized instructor
- Free downloadable textbooks
- Free monthly wilderness and austere medicine webinars
Meet Your Training Team
This course is offered by Toby Schapiro.
Toby Schapiro is the Executive Director of the On X Dynamics Public Safety Foundation, AEMT, Wilderness EMT, EMS Educator, and Wilderness First Aid Instructor Trainer.

