Hybrid Wilderness First Aid
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Course Details
Available: Jul 17–Jul 23, 2026 | Sandpoint, ID, USA
16 Hours: 8 Online + 8 In-Person
LISTING ID: L5094
Course Description
Overview
The fastest WFA, WFR Recert or AWFA Recert available: one-on-one or small group wilderness medicine training.
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 8 hours of 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
- Confirm your price
- Complete the self-paced online course
- Complete in-person training
- Same-day certificate download!
Includes
- Two-year WFA certificate
- Two years of course access
- 8 hours of self-paced online training
- 8 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 Rex Nielsen.
Rex Nielsen is a licensed NREMT-P and a Remote Paramedic, currently working in Alaska under contract for oil and gas. He has over thirty years of experience as both a volunteer and paid firefighter / EMS responder.
Raised in southeast Alaska, Rex spent a short time in the US NAVY, where he discovered his passion for travel. Afterwards, he spent the next several decades working in various remote locations across the Northern Hemisphere. Rex is passionate about sharing his EMS knowledge with everyone, from city to rural locations – including remote environments from the wildland fires, mineral and gas exploration.
He is Wildland Fire line certified, Bear Guard, and FAA Weather observer. He is a certified EMS instructor in both Alaska and Idaho, and he also teaches BLS, First Aid, and Wilderness courses.