Combine Adventure Travel with Continuing Medical Education (CME/CPD)
The hybrid RED MED course is designed to provide current healthcare professionals with a knowledge framework and experience to prepare for RED MED operations and to safely integrate into any Rescue, Expedition or Disaster management team.
This course is ideal for healthcare professionals who are currently working in or striving to work with Rescue, Expedition and Disaster Response Teams in wilderness and austere environments.
The course reviews the fundamentals of risk management, personal preparation and operational planning, along with a review of specific illnesses and injuries often seen in remote and austere environments.
Concept
The hybrid RED MED course include online learning modules, followed by an on-site adventure-based course. The online course provides the core content and additional reading, whilst the on-site phase uses the flipped-classroom approach: we work as a group, learning and developing through discussions, skills sessions and scenario-based exercises in context.
Key topics:
The course includes the following topics through a pre-course distance review of the didactic material, onsite lectures, table top exercises, and real-world scenarios in context, whilst travelling through the Atlas mountains and Sahara desert in Morocco.
Roles & responsibilities
Risk assessment
Overland expeditions
Operational planning & personal preparation
Journey management, planning and RTC/MVC management
Communications & telemedicine
Equipment selection
Safety & security
Hierarchy of rescue
Water sourcing / water treatment
Infectious disease
Patient assessment
Trauma management and medical emergencies
Disaster response
Crush syndrome
Landmines - awareness
Gunshot wounds & bleeding control
Point of care ultrasound (POCUS)
Environmental emergencies: acute mountain sickness, bites and stings, cold injury, heat illness
Throughout the course participants will be actively involved in scenario-based learning in the mountains, overland and desert environments.
Location: Morocco, North Africa
Duration: 8 days
Dates: February 2027
CME/CPD: COMPLETING THIS COURSE YOU WILL:
Learn the latest practical hands-on wilderness medical skills for patient assessment, stabilization and evacuation.
Learn the essential preparatory and safety information to integrate into and operate with a rescue, expedition or disaster response team
Practice your skills in live scenarios
Current WMS FAWM candidates will be eligible to receive FAWM credits*
Earn 47.75 AMA PRA Category 1 CME credit(s)™ ** and 47 UK CPD credits
*“This course has been approved for Fellowship in the Academy of Wilderness Medicine (FAWM) credits through the Wilderness Medical Society. Actual credits awarded depend on personal credit needs and history.”
**“The Wilderness Medical Society designates this enduring material activity for a maximum of 47.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)TM. Each physician should only claim the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
“This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of the Wilderness Medical Society (WMS) and SOS Medical Services. The WMS is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.”
International Board of Specialty Certification (IBSC) Certified Wilderness Paramedic (WP-C)
SOS Medical Services is an approved continuing education provider for WP-C® Board Certification renewal having met the standards and requirements set forth by the International Board of Specialty Certification for their Rescue, Expedition & Disaster Medicine (RED MED) course.
RED MED Online is approved for a minimum of 16 contact hours of continuing education for WP-C® and online approved review courses
UK Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Credits
This course has has been approved by the UK CPD Group for 47 CPD credits.
TRIP HIGHLIGHTS
Flipped-classroom approach with group scenario-based exercises
Skills stations
Traditional bedouin camp in the Sahara desert
Camel trek in the Sahara
Overlanding through Morocco’s Atlas mountains
Climb North Africa’s highest mountain, My Toubkal (4,167m / 13,671 ft)
Enjoy an energetic and experienced team with additional discussions on altitude medicine and desert medicine and operational planning
Enjoy the rich Moroccan culture, history and food
INCLUDES:
RED MED Course certificate
WMS Fellow of the Academy of Wilderness Medicine (FAWM) credits*
47 Continuing Professional Development (CPD) credits
RED MED uniform patch
RED MED Manual
Airport transfers
9 nights lodging, guiding, meals, manual
Excluded: All Flights to Morocco, airport taxes, travel insurance, gratuities, alcoholic beverages. Also, does not include additional days of travel or global rescue insurance.
COST:
Trip Cost: US $3,300 with AMA PRA Cat 1 CME Credits)
Accommodation & Additional single supplement costs:
Throughout the course, the allocated accommodation will be shared. This is not only due to limited hotel and tent space in the remote areas we will visit but also to enhance the group atmosphere and dynamics, meet new people and share the experience. If you wish to have a single room for the duration of the trip, please notify us and we will attempt to facilitate this. The additional charge for single supplement is: $250
HEALTH/VACCINATIONS
See CDC vaccination guidelines for https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/destinations/traveler/none/morocco
INSURANCE:
All participants must have medical and evacuation insurance covering all activities for the full duration of the course. We recommend Global Rescue.
Delegates should be aware this is intended to be a wilderness course in every sense of the word. The team in some parts of Morocco will be self sufficient. This is not a package holiday and the RED team cannot control mother nature. Should our plans be affected by floods, landslides, earthquakes and the like, we will continue with alternate plans in true expedition spirit, affecting self rescues and problem solving along the way.
