Online SAR Training

Comprehensive training for individuals

On-demand and subscription courses

Search and Rescue Courses

Learn the basics. Refresh critical skills. Comply with agency requirements. 

Our library of Search and Rescue training courses are available for individuals on a monthly subscription or on-demand basis. Base Medical SAR 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

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Health and Fitness for SAR Responders

FREE!

Be ready for whatever the mission physically demands.

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Firearm Safety for SAR

$9.00 - 0.75 CE hours

Learn gun safety and handling concepts.

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Gear and Clothing for SAR

$9.00

Having the right gear and clothing for SAR missions matters.

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Legal Concepts in SAR

$12.00 - 0.75 CE hours

This course includes the duty to act, volunteer protection, and more.

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Basic SAR Survival

$9.00 - 1 CE hours

Learn how to survive when things do not go as planned.

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ICS and Professionalism in SAR

$9.00 - 0.75 CE hours

Incident Command System principles.

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Mental Health for SAR Responders

$22.00 - 0.75 CE hours

Essential knowledge and action for mental health concerns.

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Risk Management and Decision Making in SAR

$9.00 - 0.75 CE hours

Learn how to best manage risk and correct common cognitive errors.

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Understanding Radios for SAR

$12.00 - 1.5 CE hours

Learn how two-way radios work. Do you copy?

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Cases in SAR Litigation

$9.00 - 1.5 CE hours

Learn about common reasons for ligation in SAR

Safe Trailer Operations for SAR

$12.00 - 0.75 CE hours

This Course familiarizes SAR and other Responders with the safe use of a trailer.

Locate

Your ability to quickly locate a SAR subject may mean the difference between life and death

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SAR Land Navigation

$16.00 - 2 CE hours

This course include compass use, lat/long, UTM, datums, and more.

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GPS and Satellite Navigation

$9.00 - 1 CE hours

The basics of setting waypoints, creating routes, and track logs.

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Field Search Tactics

$12.00 - 0.75 CE hours

Includes clue awareness, basic tracking, and more.

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Working with K9’s in SAR

$12.00 - 0.75 CE hours

Learn how to effectively work with search dogs in the field.

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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

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Subject First Encounter

Learn how to handle the initial moments of making first contact with a subject. Including basic first aid.

FREE!

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Wilderness First Aid

$190.00 - 16 hrs

Earn your WFA certification remotely - no travel required and still hands-on!

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Wilderness Medicine for Advanced Providers - Introduction

Learn how to work with first responders and EMS and medical guidelines. For Paramedics and above.

Free!

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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.

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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

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Helicopter Safety for SAR

FREE - 1 CE hours

Helicopters are cool and dangerous! Learn how to safely work with and around them.

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Common Knots in SAR

$9.00

From the figure eight to the alpine butterfly, review the most basics knots use in SAR.

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Litter Packaging & Evacuation

$9.00

Strap them in and haul them out — gently and safely.

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Flexible Rescue Litters

$9.00

Review how to properly use a SKED, TRS, and MEDSLED!

SAR Training FAQ

Join over 3000 SAR responders from more than 22 counties

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  • All Base SAR courses are included in team access subscriptions. A list of courses is below, with no courses being added regularly as new requests come in and new content becomes relevant.

    • SAR Land Navigation

    • SAR Helicopter Operations

    • Health and Fitness for SAR responders

    • Helicopter Operations

    • 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

    • New courses added regularly

  • The Base Medical SAR training program is perfect for both new and seasoned SAR responders. Courses are designed to be accessible but challenging, with an emphasis on content that is most relevant to folks working in a SAR capacity.

    Our program is available as a team subscription or as a an individual subscription as well as through on demand single-purchase courses.

  • The courses will guide you through a series of modules covering the essentials of a topic. Modules include video lessons and text to review as well.

    There may be quizzes between modules to test your knowledge along the way. At the end of the course, you’ll take a final exam. Once you pass, you’ll receive a certificate of completion.

  • Our online SAR courses have been designed to meet or exceed requirements for:

    • NASAR

    • NFPA

    • ASRC

    • State 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.

  • Each course varies in length from 30 minutes to several hours. All courses are self-paced, though, so you can move through the content at a speed that is most appropriate for you.

  • You can access our online SAR training program either as a monthly subscription ($12.50/mo) or through purchasing courses directly, one at a time.

    The benefit of a subscription is unlimited access to all SAR course content, even as new courses are added.

    However, if you’re looking for training on one particular topic or just want to get a sense of how our courses run, you may want to consider the on-demand purchase option.

What Our Teams 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, Montana

  • "Base Medical presented good ideas around decision-making. This course and your Helo course ought to be mandatory for many units."

    -Bob Coleman, King County SAR, Washington

  • "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

  • "The quiz was challenging, and appropriately, especially in the coordinate conversions, which give people trouble all the time."

    -Tod Schimelpfenig, Fremont County SAR, Wyoming

  • "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

  • "We have been slowly reconfiguring our training plan to take advantage of Base Medical training... 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, Washington

  • "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, Rhode Island

  • "More in-depth 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