Up for a wild ride? Dive into real-world scenarios that test your skills and confidence. Discover the rugged complexities of wilderness, remote & austere environment medicine across New Zealand, Australia and further afar!
Engage in top-tier, cutting-edge medical training, utilise your skills as a medical professional, and transfer this knowledge to wilderness areas across the world.
For us, this is much more than just our work, it is ensuring the best remote and austere medical training is shared, learnt and explored. Where we continually grow, to develop the most relevant and up to date medical techniques for you!
We put forward informed, leading, expert, wilderness medicine specialist instructors who are on the frontline immersed in this skill each and every day. Ones who walk their own talk and practice what they preach!
RescueMED was born from a simple observation: the further you get from definitive care, the more important good decision-making becomes.
After more than two decades working in ground and air ambulance services across Australia and New Zealand, our founder, Kerryn Wratt, saw firsthand the unique challenges of providing medical care in remote, wilderness, and austere environments. While emergency medicine is well established in urban settings, delivering the same standard of care when you're hours - or even days - from help requires a different skill set, a different mindset, and specialised training.
Driven by a passion for wilderness medicine, education, and the outdoors, Kerryn founded RescueMED to bridge that gap. The vision was simple: provide practical, evidence-based education delivered by clinicians and rescue professionals with genuine operational experience-not just theoretical knowledge.
Today, RescueMED delivers internationally recognised courses such as Advanced Wilderness Life Support (AWLS), develops bespoke wilderness medicine programs for Australasia, and supports organisations operating in some of the world's most challenging environments.
We're proud to have grown into a community of experienced instructors, healthcare professionals, rescuers, and outdoor enthusiasts who all share one goal - to help people stay prepared, think clearly under pressure, and deliver the best possible care wherever the adventure, expedition, or mission takes them.
After all, wilderness medicine isn't just about treating patients - it's about adapting, overcoming, and being ready when the unexpected happens.
