INTMD 7983 (2026/2027)

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State: PUBLISHED

Course: INTMD 7983 - Wilderness Medicine - Advanced Wilderness Life Support

Description: This course will be a 2-week elective in which you can earn the Advanced Wilderness Life Support (AWLS) certificate offered by the Spencer Fox Eccles School of Medicine at the University of Utah. Session topics include wilderness patient assessment, hypothermia and hyperthermia, wilderness wound management, water treatment, HAPE, AMS, HACE, children in the wilderness, nature deficit disorder and other injuries and illnesses unique to the back country. www.wildmedu.org is the site where students will learn and test. A welcome letter will be mailed to you about one week before the class starts with more instructions. After you study, you will need to pass the AWLS certification exam. It will be emailed to you right when you finish and pass the exam.

All of the AWLS courses are online except tor the course from March 29 to April 11th, 2027 This is taught in Moab, Utah Look at www.awls.info then to AWLS for more information.

Department: Internal Medicine

Credit Range: 2 - 2

Academic Year: 2026/2027

Permission Required: No

School Years: MSIIIMSIV

Course Classifications: ELECTIVECONCURRENT

Coordinator(s): Ingebretsen,Richard (DC) | richi47@comcast.net

Directors(s): Ingebretsen,Richard (DD) | richi47@comcast.net

Possible Grade(s): Fail (F)Incomplete (I)Pass (P)

Prerequisites: Phases 1 and 2

Add Policy: Course may be added to schedule by the start date.

Drop Policy: Course may be dropped from schedule 7 days after the course has started.

Syllabus: Click here to download syllabus.

Available Sections

Title	Tags	Year	Start/End	C	S	W
INTMD 7983 - Wilderness Medicine - Advanced Wilderness Life Support	ELECTIVECONCURRENT	2026/2027	08/24/2026 - 09/06/2026	2	147	0
INTMD 7983 - Wilderness Medicine - Advanced Wilderness Life Support	ELECTIVECONCURRENT	2026/2027	09/28/2026 - 10/11/2026	2	141	0
INTMD 7983 - Wilderness Medicine - Advanced Wilderness Life Support	ELECTIVECONCURRENT	2026/2027	10/26/2026 - 11/08/2026	2	145	1
INTMD 7983 - Wilderness Medicine - Advanced Wilderness Life Support	ELECTIVECONCURRENT	2026/2027	11/23/2026 - 12/06/2026	2	136	0
INTMD 7983 - Wilderness Medicine - Advanced Wilderness Life Support	ELECTIVECONCURRENT	2026/2027	01/04/2027 - 01/17/2027	2	146	0
INTMD 7983 - Wilderness Medicine - Advanced Wilderness Life Support	ELECTIVECONCURRENT	2026/2027	02/01/2027 - 02/14/2027	2	147	0
INTMD 7983 - Wilderness Medicine - Advanced Wilderness Life Support	ELECTIVECONCURRENT	2026/2027	02/01/2027 - 02/14/2027	2	149	0
INTMD 7983 - Wilderness Medicine - Advanced Wilderness Life Support	ELECTIVECONCURRENT	2026/2027	03/01/2027 - 03/14/2027	2	149	0
INTMD 7983 - Wilderness Medicine - Advanced Wilderness Life Support	ELECTIVE	2026/2027	03/29/2027 - 04/11/2027	2	59	0