Extreme situations demand extraordinary individuals

Prepare yourself to deliver care in challenging environments.

Graduate Certificate in Extreme Medicine

Northeastern’s Graduate Certificate in Extreme Medicine provides you with the humanitarian-focused skills and expertise to provide care in the most daunting situations—from mountain trail accidents to the uncertain aftermath of a natural disaster and beyond. Extreme environments require next-level preparedness. Our program is designed to give all healthcare professionals and responders the confidence to deliver compassionate and ethical medical care in difficult settings with limited resources and options.

The interprofessional program provides essential and enlightening training in crisis resource management, human factors in severe environments, the efficiency of highly skilled teams, and the theory and ethics of care in humanitarian crises. Adding capabilities in extreme medicine is relevant to your advancement as a doctor, nurse, physician assistant, paramedic, psychologist, athletic trainer, public health professional, or contributor to teams in remote environments. You’ll improve your everyday clinical skills and be ready for the unexpected.

Northeastern University delivers this unique graduate certificate in partnership with World Extreme Medicine—the world’s leading provider of education, conferences, consultancy, and medical cover in extreme medicine. World Extreme Medicine has helped thousands of medical and healthcare workers push beyond their abilities and deliver in remote, austere, and hostile environments.

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250K

experts and practitioners from every field in Northeastern’s global network of extreme medics, expedition leaders, and specialists.

years of faculty experience practicing and teaching extreme medicine in remote environments—you learn from leaders that provide world-class expedition support and training.

courses to build a comprehensive skillset for the world’s most challenging and rewarding environments.

“This new graduate qualification is for medical professionals who want to push the boundaries of their career and explore the challenges of practicing in some of the most extreme and challenging environments on the planet. The core didactic program is augmented by several electives; we are excited to deliver these modules and this pioneering program in partnership with World Extreme Medicine.”—Stephen Wood, Program Director

Program Info

The Graduate Certificate in Extreme Medicine is a four-course, 12-credit asynchronous online program that can be augmented with an operational experiential practicum through World Extreme Medicine. Students can earn the certificate as a full- or part-time student in eight to twelve months.

Entry terms

Fall and spring

Application deadlines

Fall – August 1
Spring – December 1

Provide compassionate care in the face of adversity.

Gain the knowledge and experience to provide compassionate and ethical medical care, even in the most severe environments.
Open to all medical professionals.
Choose from optional, intensive experiential learning modules in partnership with World Extreme Medicine that include learning and training around various experiences, including delivering care in cold weather wilderness and humanitarian settings.

Add value to your career through a certificate that prepares you for tomorrow.

As a graduate of this program, you will be well-positioned to provide medical and humanitarian care across challenges in emergency aid, disaster response, and austere rescue.

From government to private industry to all types of media, there is a growing and recognized need for professionals with expertise in extreme medicine. With strong healthcare growth projections, the certificate also helps you compete for new and expanded roles as a leader and caregiver. There is also an ongoing need for qualified volunteers as healthcare professionals engage with nongovernmental volunteer agencies that provide humanitarian care.

About Northeastern

Founded in 1898, Northeastern is a global research university and the recognized leader in experiential lifelong learning. Our approach of integrating real-world experience with education, research, and innovation empowers our students, faculty, alumni, and partners to create worldwide impact.

Our global university system provides our community and academic, government, and industry partners with unique opportunities to think locally and act globally. The system—which includes 13 campuses across the U.S., U.K., and Canada, 320,000-plus alumni, and more than 3,800 partners worldwide—serves as a platform for scaling ideas, talent, and solutions.

Northeastern’s personalized, experiential undergraduate and graduate programs lead to degrees through the doctorate in 10 colleges and schools across our campuses. Learning emphasizes the intersection of data, technology, and human literacies, uniquely preparing graduates for careers of the future and lives of fulfillment and accomplishment.

Our research enterprise, with an R1 Carnegie classification, is solutions oriented and spans the world. Our faculty scholars and students work in teams that cross not just disciplines, but also sectors—aligned around solving today’s highly interconnected global challenges and focused on transformative impact for humankind.

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