Intensive Format:

“Detailed Skills and Scenario-based Learning”

For those wanting a more comprehensive hands-on and scenario experience, along with benefits of a diversified instructor cadre, K9 MEDIC® offers the Intensive format, our most commonly requested format.

With just 5 students per instructor, we start with small group skills stations increasing each student’s access to instructors and increasing their repetitions to gain mastery. Primary interventions are repeated until students can do them, literally, blindfolded in a SoloX scenario, where the student has the undivided attention of an instructor so that we can ensure each student has very good hands-on skills before we release them into scenario (thus decreasing the likelihood of ‘training scars’ so often created in scenarios unless intentionally designed out of trainings.

Next we move into basic learning scenarios to put the skills into context before finally moving into difficult problem solving scenarios where we can evaluate the culmination of knowledge, skills, and problem solving all at once.

Scenarios are customized to the medical scope, equipment, and mission profile of each team. For example, we have different scenarios for our Tactical, Wilderness, Disaster, EMS, etc teams.

Finally, the increased ratio means that all classes have 3 or more multidisciplinary instructors including Veterinary professionals, experienced paramedics, and field-savvy K9 Handlers, typically chosen to match the demographics of the students themselves.

The three-day version of this format is our most often requested program, as it allows for a steady progression of knowledge and skills development and layering over multiple days. It has a great deal of hands-on experience which students love and delivers excellent outcomes for long-term care of K9s. The three-day version also satisfies the requirements for the Train-the-Trainer prerequisite.

Intensive Format – Lab Stations Add-on: