The Aerie School for Backcountry Medicine in Western Montana offers the highest quality wilderness medicine training available. Aerie is a nationally recognized organization which has trained thousands of students, including employees of the National Park Service, US Forest Service, Student Conservation Association and the National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS). Aerie instructors are professional paramedics, RNs and physicians with years of patient care and outdoor leadership experience. Our residential programs are taught in some of the most beautiful settings in the Northwest.