MOFA Classes? Anyone else take them?

[ruffryder]

I just got done completing a MOFA class (Mountain Oriented First Aid). I thought the class was really well done and learned quite a bit. Most of the info / training is on steps and procedures for helping victims of accidents. Keeping you cool, prioritizing, and helping correctly for different situations.

Anyone else take a class like that? I thought it was really good, especially since I haven't taken a first aid class in a while.

Anyone else recommend some classes?

 

[Vertical_Escape]

Sounds like a good class, any more info on it? Who gave it?

 

[ruffryder]

Sounds like a good class, any more info on it? Who gave it?

The Mountaineers (yah big greenie group) put them on in Washington. I think most hiking clubs are able to put them one. The class is now required for boyscouts going to philmont, so I expect the classes to blow up all over the west.

The class was 3 hours, twice a week for 4 weeks. Quite long but it covered a lot of information for doing first aid. Note, this isn't about setting legs and performing surgery or doing stitches. It is about keeping someone alive till help can arrive....

I am pretty good with blood when it is on myself, but seeing the mockups for the practical was a little different, especially with the dude screaming at me when I was tying the bandage on his leg. It had to be done, and done tightly, and even though it was fake, and I knew it was fake, it still gave me pause.

 

[Vertical_Escape]

The Mountaineers (yah big greenie group) put them on in Washington. I think most hiking clubs are able to put them one. The class is now required for boyscouts going to philmont, so I expect the classes to blow up all over the west.

The class was 3 hours, twice a week for 4 weeks. Quite long but it covered a lot of information for doing first aid. Note, this isn't about setting legs and performing surgery or doing stitches. It is about keeping someone alive till help can arrive....

I am pretty good with blood when it is on myself, but seeing the mockups for the practical was a little different, especially with the dude screaming at me when I was tying the bandage on his leg. It had to be done, and done tightly, and even though it was fake, and I knew it was fake, it still gave me pause.

Wow sounds like an even better class. It's been sometime since I took a 1st aid of any kind, might not hurt to renew.

I'm same way on blood, mine has no effect, someone elses maybe a little, but let a kid bleed and it gets tough.