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, October 8, 2018

Congrats on a Great Midterm & Backboard Sunday!

Big congratulations to the candidates for making it through a grueling weekend. And a big thanks to the patrollers who helped out!  Good days, good lessons learned, great tools for the future. 

Good day & good learnings at the Saturday midterm.  As we discussed, the exams are based on previous year's final practical exams.  Now you have a good sense of where you are and where you personally, and the class as a group, need to focus moving foward.

And a productive Backboard Sunday - at the beginning of the day, you hadn't laid a hand on a backboard.  Now you can put a patient on a backboard - from each position to leading a team to do so - in a broad variety of situations. 

Now we move foward to learn a couple more skills, then more complicated scenarios, then ramp up for the final exams!

More pics in the class photo album here.