Join Dr. Steve Pehrson and Sam Coffman for our Austere Acute Care (AAC) hands-on intensive at our 50-acre campus near San Antonio, TX. Both Steve and Sam started their respective journeys into medicine as U.S. Army Special Forces Medics. Steve went on to become an emergency medicine and family practice doctor in rural Utah, [...]
Austere Medicine – Trauma This is a 12-week long online course. You can take this anywhere you have an internet connection. You do not have to be present in our area to take the course! Registration closes on June 17th, 2019. The online portion consists of 12 weeks of lectures that take the student through [...]
The Austere Medicine program is an introduction to the most vital aspects of medicine in a post-disaster or austere environment and integrates western emergency medicine, sports medicine, wilderness first aid and botanical (herbal) medicine. This is a five-day intensive course held at our San Antonio campus, preceded by a required 12-week online course and 3-day [...]
The Medic: Radio Dispatch for Clinics One emergency skillset that is often overlooked is the use of emergency communications. It isn’t until cell phone service fails during an emergency that communication comes to a standstill. This is a 4-hour hands-on training session where students will have a chance to work alongside the off-grid emergency radio [...]
Many emergency first aid skills can be forgotten if you don’t use them on a regular basis. In the panic of an emergency, it is easy to forget the techniques and when you should use a certain method to secure an injured limb. This is a 4-hour hands on workshop where we will go over [...]