Fall 2015 Outdoor Emergency Care Course

This site covers the National Ski Patrol's Outdoor Emergency Care (OEC) training course that's held in the San Francisco South Bay area each Fall. Details on registration, materials, preparation and location are located on the tabs above. Course updates are posted below as they are published.

Outdoor Emergency Care® is the National Ski Patrol’s award-winning training program for patrollers and others in the recreation community who deal with emergency situations. This nationally recognized program is designed to help you manage the toughest emergencies, in all seasons. Developed in the late 1980s for the 26,000 members of the National Ski Patrol, Outdoor Emergency Care is a training program that is tailored to the nonurban rescuer. Today, OEC is considered the standard of training for emergency care in the outdoor environment and is recognized by resorts and recreational facilities in all 50 states.

Friday, August 30, 2013

Good Week #2

Great job all.  As we discussed, you're all looking quite good for this point in the course.  Having said that, now's the time to press ahead aggressively to get the assessment committed to memory and be able to complete it in 3 minutes.  As you know, the key is practice, practice, practice.

In the meantime, a few items that have come up:

1. Writing out the assessment flow is often a good study tool.  As we discussed in class, use whatever tool works for you.  I've place the example write-up on the Google Drive "Materials" folder.  You can go there directly here.

2.  Some of you have asked about the audio recording of the flow.  As we discussed, it's from 2008 and the flow has changed since then, but nonetheless, this may be helpful.  I've also placed it on the Google Drive "Materials" folder .  You can go there directly here.

3. We passed out hard copies of  the final exam evaluation sheets in class.  It's also available in electronic form on the Google Drive "Materials" folder, here.

Now, back to practice, practice, practice...