Train Where Survival Meets Reality
Step beyond the classroom and into the heart of the rainforest. AEMED’s Austere Medic course combines cutting-edge emergency care training with hands-on green skills, all delivered in one of the most challenging and awe-inspiring environments on Earth. Whether you’re an outdoor leader, expedition medic, or remote-area professional, this course prepares you to act decisively and live capably when resources are few and help is far away.
Experience the depths of one of the worlds oldest rainforests
Embark on a journey deep into Taman Negara, one of the world’s oldest and most biologically diverse rainforests. Begin your journey with an upriver expedition by traditional longboat, winding through dense jungle waterways before arriving at a remote basecamp accessible only by water and foot. Over several days, you’ll immerse yourself in the realities of wilderness medicine—navigating rugged terrain and executing realistic medical scenarios under pressure. From traumatic injuries and tropical diseases to prolonged field care and delayed evacuation, you’ll be challenged to adapt with limited tools and shifting priorities. This demanding program fuses hands-on training with jungle survival, decision-making under duress, and expeditionary readiness. It is not just about mastering protocols; it’s about learning to lead, improvise, and care for others when you’re days from definitive help and surrounded by some of the world’s most unforgiving natural conditions.
Jungle Living: Practical Green Skills for Self-Reliance
Participants learn practical green skills essential for self-reliance and low-impact living in remote environments. Through hands-on instruction, participants learn safe and effective parang use for trail clearing and resource gathering, as well as various fire-lighting techniques using both natural materials and modern tools. The course covers shelter-building strategies suited to the tropical climate, using local materials to create stable, weather-resistant structures. Learners also explore methods for water sourcing and filtration, gaining the ability to locate, collect, and purify water in austere conditions. Each skill is taught with a strong emphasis on safety, environmental responsibility, and adaptability—ensuring that participants not only know how to survive in the wild, but how to do so ethically, with respect for the ecosystem. These skills are woven into the broader context of living and working in remote areas, making them highly relevant for outdoor leaders, expedition teams, and anyone seeking to deepen their connection to the natural world.
Austere Medic Certified by AEMED International
Developed for experienced medics, expedition clinicians, and operational team leads, the Austere Medic course prepares participants to deliver high-level medical care in remote, unstable, and resource-depleted environments. Predominantly field-based, this rigorous program integrates advanced clinical decision-making with scenario-driven simulations focused on complex trauma, airway and ventilatory support, prolonged field care, tropical and infectious disease management, and environmental threats including thermal injury, envenomation, and vector-borne illness. Participants face evolving, high-stakes scenarios requiring medical leadership, logistical planning, and the ability to adapt standards of care to realities far beyond the reach of definitive systems. Training includes night operations, multi-casualty incidents, delayed evacuation strategies, and improvisation under austere constraints. Rather than relying solely on established algorithms, students are challenged to function as autonomous medics—balancing evidence-based practice with field realities. Graduates emerge not only with globally recognised credentials, but with the competence and confidence to lead medical operations in some of the harshest and most unpredictable environments on earth.