Testimonials page 3:

A sample of emails & letters received after our First Aid Training courses:

Click here for the recent Article in March 2006 Skywings magazine, The official magazine for the British Hang Gliding and Paragliding Association.

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Mountain/Outdoor First Aid Training undertaken by Adventure First Aid for the University of Plymouth Geological & Earth Science Students and Staff.

I am an engineering geologist with over 30 years of industrial and academic experience. I have worked in some 30 different countries often in remote areas (e.g the Empty Quarter in Saudi Arabia, the Star Mountains of Papua New Guinea). Being now I full-time academic I decided that it was necessary to update my first aid skills for fieldwork and in February 2006 I took the 2-day version of the above course.

I had been on a number of first aid courses, including those run by the Red Cross but found this one quite unique. Most first aid courses assume that you will have to take action in urban areas or locations with good communications and there are people around to assist. The Adventure First Aid course starts out with quite the opposite assumption, i.e. you are remote and alone. The emphasis is therefore on developing the skills needed to cope with situations that you could encounter carrying out teaching or research field work. The course uses a practical approach to training where skills are practiced repeatedly. However, the most important part of the training comes with the use of outside simulation scenarios. Here you are faced with a series of first aid problems that have to be dealt with under conditions that are deliberately made stressful by the tutors. By spending the best part of a day working through different scenarios the first aid response becomes increasingly automatic.

My view is that is a superb training course that is ideally suited to anybody who runs fieldwork programmes.

Professor James S Griffiths - University of Plymouth
BSc PhD EurGeol CGeol CEng MIMMM FGS ILTM