For Medical Students Enrolled in the In Person AWLS course in April in Salt Lake City

Click the heading above if you are enrolled in the University of Utah School of Medicine’s in person AWLS course in Salt Lake City, and Moab, Utah. Internal Medicine 7983

There is an in person course at the University of Utah and Moab, Utah from March 30th to April 12th, 2025, You can click here to learn more about this course.

There are many in person coures you can attend. Look at the “In Person AWLS” course link on the home page

For Medical Students Studying on Their Own or in Another AWLS Course

Follow the instructions on the AWLS page on how to certify. Register as a ‘student.’ if you have registered through VSLO/VSAS read the instructions below.

For Medical Student Enrolled in our Online/Self Paced School of Medicine Course Internal Medicine 7983 through VSLO/VSAS

You are enrolled in Internal Medicine 7983 Advanced Wilderness Life Support through VSLO/VSAS

Follow the steps on the AWLS page on how to certify.

If you need a syllabus for your school, click here.

You will need to pass the AWLS certification exam in order to pass the course. You cannot pass without studying. You have one attempt, it is timed and you must finish in one setting.

I will give course grades soon after the course.

If you are not a Utah SOM student, PLEASE SEND ME YOUR SCHOOL EVALUATION AT SOME POINT. PLEASE FILL IT OUT AS MUCH AS YOU CAN. Send it to: richard.ingebretsen@m.cc.utah.edu

If your school sends electronic grading, you do not need to send an evaluation to me.

The passcode to take the AWLS certification exam is in the welcome email. If you did not receive it, email me at: richard.ingebretsen@m.cc.utah.edu

If you certify in AWLS in addition to Backpacking Medicine and Wilderness Travel and Tropical Medicine and SAR, you will be invited to be an Associate in Wilderness Medicine Look on the home page and navigate to the page for instructions.

If your school’s schedule and the dates on VSLO/VSAS don’t match up you have some options. The dates can’t be changed on VSLO/VSAS, but you can do the work when it works for your school and we can turn the grade in when you tell us. Or you could sign up for an elective at your school where we serve as the preceptor.

Put effort into this course and you will learn be a great physician in the outdoors.

Good luck!

Richard J Ingebretsen, MD, PhD

University of Utah School of Medicine