This three-day course is designed as the first module of preparation for deployment as an Australian Medical assistance team member.

Developed to provide participants with exposure to a range of essential techniques and survival skills to manage successfully when deployed into the field after a disaster. This course is particularly focused on testing the participant’s capacity to survive in an austere and hostile environment as a valued team member. 

This course involves classroom and practical exercises including an overnight field deployment.

Course content includes:

• Survival in austere environments
• Equipment familiarisation/management
• Hostile negotiation
• Trip planning
• Cultural awareness
• Medical management of multi casualties in the field
• Humanitarian operations
• Crowd management
• Water purification

Suitable participants include medical and nursing clinicians, allied health, emergency service workers and environmental health officers who have completed a MIMMS team member course and/or MIMMS Commander course and completed their volunteer disaster form.