Talk:Wilderness First Responder

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[edit] Links to training providers

Agree that Wikipedia is not a directory. Medical Officer specifically is a sponsor of WMA courses. References to NOLS/WMI, WMA and SOLO should stay because of their impact on defining this field of study. SOLO invented the WFR curriculum. WMI and WMA as the respective first aid schools for NOLS and Outward Bound had a lot to do with spreading the concept.

Due to their long operating history and extensive (sometimes global) course schedules, SOLO, WMI and WMA probably have trained 80-90% of the WFRS floating around. Powells, Barnes and Noble, Borders and REI usually carry books published by folks associated with WMI or WMA. See especially The Outward Bound Wilderness First Aid Handbook from folks associated with WMA which provides a concise systems approach that helped this layman organize his medical knowledge into an efficient and robust "mental model." Also see WMI's Buck Tilton's textbook The Wilderness First Responder which is close to encylopedic in its coverage.

I notice that other wikipedia articles sometimes include see also, references and external links. I believe the edit went too far. Not sure how to re-add with out re-verting. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by GageParker (talk • contribs).

I was bold, I think your reverting and opening a discussion is entirely appropriate if you disagree with it.

I appreciate that there can be good reason to mention significant providers - but I don't think a list is a good idea. How about we provide the sort of context into the article that you have in your post above? -- Siobhan Hansa 14:09, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

The first chapter in Buck Tilton's book (see above) has a few paragraphs on the history of Wilderness Medicene and how the WFR program became a natural extension of US Department of Transportation concept of First Responder. I will try to extract and cite Buck's book.GageParker 15:20, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

need help making references work correctly.GageParker 05:15, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

Wow Gage - that's a great addition! Do you still need help with the references? They look fine. -- Siobhan Hansa 11:36, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

I think I have how to for referencing figured out. It took a couple of tries to recognize I need to put some kind of end ref in. I need to add a few more ibids to properly recognize the source of history facts I took from Buck Tilton's book.