 Common US certifications include Wilderness First Aid, Wilderness First Responder, and Wilderness EMT.While there is no legislation on standards of care for wilderness emergency care, there is a consensus of wilderness medical experts published by the Wilderness Medical Society 

Wilderness Medicine is popular in medical school communities, and many student groups hold their own Wilderness Medicine Conferences.One of the earliest examples is the Carolina Wilderness Medicine Seminar, organized at UNC-Chapel Hill by medical students Seth C. Hawkins and Jenny Graham in March 1998  and repeated in 2000.