Online Search and Rescue Education
online courses to streamline team training
Accessible SAR and Wilderness Medicine Training
over 3000 SAR responders from more than 22 countries
King County SAR Association
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Cibola SAR
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La Plata County SAR
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Washoe County SAR
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Las Animas County SAR
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Jefferson County SAR
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Join our Mission
We are elevating the profession of SAR! Join the many teams across the nation that use our online SAR courses to streamline and standardize team training. Our online SAR courses have been designed to meet or exceed requirements for:NASARNFPAASRCstate SAR programs
These courses can also be used for continuing education credits for NASAR SARTECH renewal. NASAR additionally recognizes the helicopter course as meeting the aviation safety prerequisite for SARTECH programs. Track team member enrollment and progress! -
All BASE SAR courses are included in team access subscriptions:
SAR Land Navigation
SAR Helicopter Operations
Health and Fitness for SAR responders
Helicopter Recco
GPS and Satellite Navigation
Common Knots in Rescue
Understanding Radios for SAR
Litter Packaging and Evacuation
Field Search Tactics
ICS and Professionalism
Basic SAR survival
Firearm Safety
Flexible Litters
SAR Legal Concepts
Crime Scene Investigation
Working with K9’s
Risk Management and Decision Making in SAR
Gear and Clothing for SAR
Mental Health for SAR Responders
Wilderness Medicine
and More!
Choose Your Team Access Subscription
members
10 or Less
members
11-30
members
31-50
members
51-100
members
100-500
Please allow 3-4 business days to process your payment. Once processed, we will share a link your team can use to access the courses and track team member enrollment and progress. Individual Course Enrollment
Learn the basics. Refresh critical skills. Comply with agency requirements.
Courses have been designed to meet or exceed the knowledge requirements of all major SAR qualification programs, such as NASAR, NFPA, and ASRC as well as all known state SAR programs. Courses can be purchased individually, or you can purchase a subscription to access all SAR courses. Prepare
Get yourself mission-ready or review foundational SAR concepts
Health and Fitness for SAR Responders
FREE!
Be ready for whatever the mission physically demands.
Firearm Safety for SAR
$9.00 - 0.75 CE hours
Learn gun safety and handling concepts.
Gear and Clothing for SAR
$9.00
Having the right gear and clothing for SAR missions matters.
Legal Concepts in SAR
$12.00 - 0.75 CE hours
This course includes the duty to act, volunteer protection, and more.
Basic SAR Survival
$9.00 - 1 CE hours
Learn how to survive when things do not go as planned.
ICS and Professionalism in SAR
$9.00 - 0.75 CE hours
Incident Command System principles.
Mental Health for SAR Responders
$22.00 - 0.75 CE hours
Essential knowledge and action for mental health concerns.
Risk Management and Decision Making in SAR
$9.00 - 0.75 CE hours
Learn how to best manage risk and correct common cognitive errors.
Understanding Radios for SAR
$12.00 - 1.5 CE hours
Learn how two-way radios work. Do you copy?
Cases in SAR Litigation
$9.00 - 1.5 CE hours
Learn about common reasons for ligation in SAR
Locate
Your ability to quickly locate a SAR subject may mean the difference between life and death
SAR Land Navigation
$16.00 - 2 CE hours
This course include compass use, lat/long, UTM, datums, and more.
GPS and Satellite Navigation
$9.00 - 1 CE hours
The basics of setting waypoints, creating routes, and track logs.
Field Search Tactics
$12.00 - 0.75 CE hours
Includes clue awareness, basic tracking, and more.
Working with K9’s in SAR
$12.00 - 0.75 CE hours
Learn how to effectively work with search dogs in the field.
Helicopter RECCO Use for SAR Leaders
FREE!
Learn more about the powerful capabilities of RECCO in SAR
Access and Treat
Stabilize life-threatening injuries and illness
Subject First Encounter
Learn how to handle the initial moments of making first contact with a subject. Including basic first aid.
FREE!
Wilderness First Aid
$190.00 - 16 hrs
Earn your WFA certification remotely - no travel required and still hands-on!
Wilderness Medicine for Advanced Providers - Introduction
Learn how to work with first responders and EMS and medical guidelines. For Paramedics and above.
Free!
In-house Wilderness Medicine Training for Teams
Become an instructor to provide wilderness medicine training for your team for only $65 per person. Instructors must be WFR or above.
Crime Scene Operations
$16.00
Learn the do’s and don’ts of crime scenes
Extricate
Up steep cliffs, across rivers, over boulders, or via air to definitive care
Helicopter Safety for SAR
FREE - 1 CE hours
Helicopters are cool and dangerous! Learn how to safely work with and around them.
Common Knots in SAR
$9.00
From the figure eight to the alpine butterfly, review the most basics knots use in SAR.
Litter Packaging and Evacuation
$9.00
Strap them in and haul them out — gently and safely.
Flexible Rescue Litters
$9.00
Review how to properly use a SKED, TRS, and MEDSLED!
what others are saying
"Base Medical SAR programs are such an excellent resource, especially for those of us who look for training above and beyond our monthly team trainings. Thank you for enriching my role as a SAR responder in a relevant and economical way. I appreciate it!!"
-Jill Oie, Elkhorn SAR, MT
"The quiz was challenging, and appropriately, especially in the coordinate conversions, which give people trouble all the time."
-Tod Schimelpfenig, Fremont County SAR, WY
"You presented good ideas around decision-making. This course and your Helo course ought to be mandatory for many units."
-Bob Coleman, King County SAR, WA
"I was really appreciative to have taken this course and excellent need to know advice for when searching."
-Joyce Courtoreille, Sundre Search and Rescue, Alberta, Canada
"This course was excellent for beginners like myself. Covering all areas of safety, it explained everything in great detail. I highly recommend this course for beginners, as well as seasoned SAR team members with helicopter experience".
-Stephanie Phillips, Indiana Search & Response Team
"So much more than a LZ safety course. Gives good insight to why you need to follow specific procedures. Job well done. Thank you."
-Don Dragon, Jr, EMS, RI
"Good. More indepth than SAR Radio classes I have taken in past. Nice format for online class, with the video sections explaining concept and showing examples."
-Donna Cramer, Alaska Solstice Search Dogs
"We have been slowly reconfiguring our training plan to take advantage of your training. The first attempt was last year, with a limited number of new volunteers using a few Base Medical modules to substitute for in-person classes due to COVID. This year, despite resuming some in-person training, we set 95% of our classroom requirements for new volunteers to be fulfilled either through Base Medical or by watching our recorded in-house training. It's going really well because self-paced training seems to work better for busy people and weeds out those who are not ready to commit sufficient time to SAR. And we've replaced energy-sapping annual classes with on-demand, consistent course content. Next year's intention is to bring all of our existing members into Base Medical, regularly assigning modules as refresher training to free our monthly meetings for more hands-on work."
-Matt Stewart, Jefferson SAR, WA