Meets the standards for recertification of a Wilderness First Responder certification. Topics to be included are CPR, patient assessment, trauma, medical, and environmental emergencies. This course is required to maintain a current Wilderness First Responder certification, which must be recertified every three years.
This course is open to anyone who has a current WFR certification. You are eligible to register for a Desert Mountain Medicine (DMM) Wilderness First Refresher Course as long as your certification is still valid and that your WFR and WFR recertification courses were a minimum of 72 hours and 24 hours respectively. We will not accept WFR or WFR recertification education formats that are online only even if they contain several hours of one-on-one zoom instruction. Your current WFR certification must have had a minimum of 45-50 hours of in-person, scenario-based training and your WFR recertification education must have had a minimum of 16 hours of in-person, scenario based training.
