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.

Monday, December 22, 2014

Outdoor Emergency Care on Flipboard

For grins, I created a custom magazine on Flipboard on Outdoor Emergency Care. You're probably familiar with Flipboard , a (primarily) tablet app which enables viewers to browse subjects of interest as "magazines".  Some of these are curated by the Flipboard staff, others by individuals on topics of their own interest.  I did the latter for OEC.   I've got a few articles there now, and as I run across articles of interest/relevance, I will be adding them to this "magazine".

Have a look at the link below.  Best viewed on a tablet, but also viewable by web.  Let me know what you think.  I've sent this to a few folks and feedback to date is positive.   My thinking is to get some initial commentary on this, and then develop a contributor network to provide crowd-sourced content of interest.

Link here: http://flip.it/9cPvK


Monday, December 1, 2014