Course curriculum

  • 1

    Introduction

    • Welcome and course instructions

    • Course Entry Survey

    • About the Course Team

    • Important Information

    • Introduction to RED MED

    • Definitions & Challenges

    • Additional RED MED Education Opportunities

    • Awareness, Knowledge and Competencies

    • Career Pathways into RED MED

    • Clinical Governance

    • Quiz. 1
  • 2

    Safety & Security

    • Personal Safety & Security

    • Quiz 2

    • Dynamic Risk Assessment & the OODA Loop

    • Quiz 3

    • Hazards & Obstacles: to cross or not to cross?

    • Quiz 4

    • Landmine & ERW Awareness

    • Quiz 5

    • Active Shooter

    • Quiz 6

    • Helicopter Safety for Non-Aircrew

    • Quiz 7

    • 72 Hour - Bug Out Bag (BOB)

    • Quiz 8

    • Basic Survival Principles

    • Quiz 9
  • 3

    Risk Assessment & Operational Planning

    • Introduction to Operational Planning

    • Quiz 10

    • Risk Assessment (The Formal Process)

    • Quiz 11

    • The Medical Emergency Response Plan (MERP)

    • Quiz 12

    • Designing Remote Area Medical Kits Video

    • RED MED Podcast - Expedition & Operational Planning Discussion

    • RED MED Podcast - Medical Kits

    • Quiz 13

    • Remote Area Medical Kits & Travelling with Medications
  • 4

    RED Medicine

    • Scene Assessment and Mechanism of Injury (MOI)

    • Patient Assessment

    • Quiz 14

    • Foot Care

    • Quiz 15

    • Suspension Syndrome

    • RED MED Podcast - Suspension Syndrome

    • Quiz 16

    • Crush Injury & Crush Syndrome

    • Quiz 17

    • Fracture Management

    • Heat Illness

    • Quiz 19

    • Accidental Hypothermia

    • Quiz 20

    • Frostbite

    • Quiz 21

    • Acute Mountain Sickness

    • Quiz 22

    • High Altitude Cerebral Edema (HACE)

    • Quiz 23

    • High Altitude Pulmonary Edema (HAPE)

    • Quiz 24

    • The Portable Hyperbaric Chamber as Treatment for Acute Altitude Related Illness

    • Quiz 25

    • Wilderness Wound Care

    • Quiz 26

    • Traumatic Brain injury (TBI)

    • Burns

    • Prevention and Management of Trauma Induced Hypothermia (TIH)

    • Mosquito-borne Diseases

    • Quiz 28

    • Tick-Borne Diseases

    • Travellers' Diarrhoea & Giardia

    • Snake Bites

    • Scorpion Stings

    • Venomous Spider Bites

    • Expedition Dentistry

    • Expedition Dentistry Bonus Video
  • 5

    Disaster Response & Humanitarian Operations

    • Introduction to Disasters & Types of Disaster

    • RED MED Podcast - Disaster Medicine

    • Disaster Risk Management & Response

    • Public Health in Disasters

    • Cultural Competency

    • Operational Water Sourcing & Treatment

    • Triage

    • Post Disaster Communicable Diseases

    • Disaster & Urban Search & Rescue (USAR) Medic

    • Medical Missions (Remote Clinics)

    • Podcast: Medical Mission Planning
  • 6

    Technology & Prolonged Field Care

    • Remote Area Technology & Communications

    • Telemedicine

    • Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS)

    • Lung Ultrasound: COVID-19 & Pneumonia

    • Prolonged Field Care

    • RED MED Podcast - Prolonged Field Care
  • 7

    Medical Roles & Opportunities

    • Close Protection Team Medic

    • Industrial Medic (Mining, Oil & Gas)

    • Disaster: Urban Search & Rescue (USAR) Medic
  • 8

    Expeditions

    • Cold Weather Survival & Travel

    • Clothing & Equipment for High Altitude Mountaineering

    • Avalanche Awareness

    • RED MED Podcast - Mountain Disaster & Preparing for the Mountains

    • Expedition Medic (General)

    • Overland & Desert Expeditions

    • Extreme High-Altitude Expeditions

    • Expedition Base Camp

    • Rainforest Expeditions

    • Podcast - Tropical Expedition Support

    • Podcast - River Expeditions

    • Podcast - Jungle Expedition Medicine
  • 9

    Downloads / Resources

    • Pre Deployment Checklist

    • Participant Pre-Trip Screening Questionnaire

    • Jungle Trekking Kit List

    • Patient Assessment Flow Chart

    • List of Acronyms

    • Sample Medical Emergency Response plan (MERP)

    • MERP Template

    • MERP Template (Editable)
  • 10

    Final Assessment

    • The Disorienting Dilema: Security & Cultural Competency Scenario

    • Final Course Assessment
  • 11

    End of Course Evaluation

    • End of Course Evaluation