The Street Medicine Course
Learn it online.
Prove it in person.
Eight hours of self-paced academics on the Trilogy Schoolhouse, then a hands-on skills session with a certified instructor in your area for full certification. Built to the C-TECC guidelines for the Active Bystander and the First Responder with a Duty to Act. No medical background required.
How far you take it
Two levels of completion
The academics stand on their own. The hands-on session is what turns knowledge into a skill you can perform — and it is what full certification requires.
Awareness — online only
Take the 8-hour academics on their own. You will understand how people die from survivable injuries, what the life threats are, and what to do about them. Good for personal preparedness, for a workplace that wants its people informed, and for anyone who cannot get to a skills session yet.
You receive: a certificate of completion for the online course. Not full certification.
Start the academics →Full certification — online + hands-on
Complete the academics, then perform the skills in person with a certified instructor: tourniquet under stress, wound packing, chest seal, airway positioning, casualty movement. Your skills are evaluated, not just demonstrated.
You receive: full Street Medicine course certification.
Find your instructor →Two ways to buy it
Start online today
Step 1. Buy your seat and complete the 8-hour academics online, at your own pace.
Step 2. Use the directory to find a certified instructor near you and schedule your hands-on skills session. You arrange the session and pay the instructor directly.
Best if: you want to start right now, or you already know an instructor.
Enroll in the Academics →Train with an instructor, start to finish
Many certified instructors teach the complete course — academics and hands-on together, one price, one point of contact. They issue your online access themselves.
Best if: you're training with a group, an agency, a school, or a range, or you'd rather have one person handle everything.
Find an Instructor Who Teaches the Full Course →Either way you complete the same Trilogy curriculum on the same platform. The difference is who you buy from.
What you'll learn
Five modules, then the skills session
Module 1 — The Problem and the Mission
Module 2 — Scene Safety and the Care Zones
Module 3 — Massive Hemorrhage
Module 4 — Airway and Respiration
Module 5 — Circulation, Hypothermia, Evacuation and Handoff
Hands-on skills session. Performed in person with a certified Street Medicine Instructor: tourniquet application under stress, wound packing, chest seal placement, airway positioning, and casualty movement. Skills are evaluated, not just demonstrated.
The standard
Built to the C-TECC guidelines
This course follows the Committee for Tactical Emergency Casualty Care (C-TECC) guidelines at the two levels written for people working without a medical license: the Active Bystander and the First Responder with a Duty to Act.
Active Bystander
The person who happens to be there and has no professional obligation to act — a teacher, a congregant, a coworker, an armed citizen, a parent in the stands. Trained to recognize life threats and stop the bleeding with what is on hand or in a public bleeding-control kit.
First Responder with a Duty to Act
The person whose job puts them there and obligates them to respond — police, security officers, school and campus response personnel, workplace emergency response teams. Trained to the same life threats with issued equipment, in a role that carries a duty and a policy behind it.
Trilogy Emergency Medical Solutions is a C-TECC Recognized Educational Partner.Trilogy is not a training center for any outside organization and delivers no one else's curriculum. The Street Medicine curriculum is Trilogy's own, written to the C-TECC guidelines.
Format and details
| Online academics | 8 hours, self-paced, on the Trilogy Schoolhouse (lms.trilogyems.com) |
|---|---|
| Hands-on skills | In person with a certified Street Medicine Instructor |
| Prerequisites | None. No medical background or license required. |
| Who it's for | Law enforcement, security professionals, firearms instructors, schools, faith and campus security teams, workplaces, and prepared citizens |
| Access | Any device, any time. Start immediately after enrollment. |
| On completion | Online only — certificate of completion, awareness level. Online plus hands-on — full Street Medicine course certification. Both issued through the Trilogy Schoolhouse. |
| Standard | Built to the C-TECC guidelines for the Active Bystander and the First Responder with a Duty to Act. Trilogy is a C-TECC Recognized Educational Partner. |
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Agencies and groups
Training a shift, a district, or a range?
Group and agency delivery is available, and many agencies choose to certify their own instructors so they can train their people on their own schedule at no per-student cost.
Group & agency training
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