ABOUT US

“The concept of emergency medical support should be considered by every SWAT team as an investment in the well-being of its members. Lives are at stake. The value of having and training an emergency medical support team is immeasurable.”

Heiskell, L.E., Tang, D.H., Tactical Emergency Medical Support of Law Enforcement Special Operations Teams. SWAT Magazine, February 1996

MISSION STATEMENT

Our mission and objective is to teach our students the fundamentals of tactical operations in conjuction with the integration and application of operational emergency medicine. 

LOCATION

The International School of Tactical Medicine courses are conducted at the Northern California Regional Public Safety Authority (NCRPSTA) in Sacramento, California. We offer a dynamic and complete Tactical Medicine educational training program. Since the inception of the program in 1996 students have attended from over 1000 different agencies. 

Clients include many federal, state and local Law Enforcement, Fire Department and EMS agencies. Our clients also include many agencies from California, the United States, Europe and around the world.

The ISTM faculty is comprised of physicians and law-enforcement professionals. All physicians are residency trained-board certified in their specialty, published authors, hold faculty appointments at teaching hospitals and medical schools. In addition, they are tactically trained and sworn law enforcement officers and serve as tactical physicians on SWAT teams. The law-enforcement faculty are experienced police officers that are firearms and tactical instructors.

Our training facility in Sacramento provides unlimited logistical support of all courses with classrooms, range facilities and unique locations for scenario training.

Our tactical medicine training program offers a 2-week 80 hours plus comprehensive didactic tactical medicine curriculum, which uniquely integrates both medical and tactical education, hands on training, firearms instruction and personalized attention. Learning the concepts of tactical medicine is enhanced by scenario based teaching. To ensure the maximum learning benefit both modules should be taken consecutively.

PROUD TO BE SERVING OUR STUDENTS FOR OVER 28 YEARS

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