Hello, folks! Welcome to Medic in the Trees, Professional Responder edition. My name is Kieran, I am a Primary Care Paramedic in Vancouver, as well as the Lead Instructor for Coast Wilderness Medical Training’s Professional Responder Training programs, where I oversee delivery of our First Responder, Emergency Medical Responder, and Wilderness First Responder courses. In this series of posts, I will answer your questions about the field of professional medical response from training and careers to tips, tricks and techniques. This first entry into our series is going to be a long one, but this ..read more

The following is a story from one of our alumni. It is his expression of how he went from working an unfulfilling desk job to working for the BC Emergency Health Services. If he can do it, you can too! If you have any questions on how to become a paramedic, please don’t hesitate to reach out: support@wildernessfirstaidtraining.ca. The Seed is Planted Growing up, I never thought I could be a paramedic. That seemed like a job for someone else - not me. Instead, it seemed that family and society wanted me to go to university. This landed me straight into the confines of a desk. After a few years ..read more