EVENTS
Grow at one of our live events. Add to your knowledge and get trained in water and medical skills. Certified events for surfers, venues and health professionals.
Courses
Conferences
Webinars
Next Events
SMI’s 2022 Calendar
20 April: Webinar on Maxillofacial Injuries in Surfing (Free)
21 May Basic Surf Life Support Course
(1 Day First Aid Course for Surfers)
1 – 8 October Advanced Surf Life Support Course (for Healthcare Professionals)


Courses
Surf Life Support
No matter what your previous first aid background is – we got you covered. Surf Life Support™ provides tailor-made courses for surfers, health professionals. surf schools, or whatever you love about the ocean.
With years of experience in teaching, health and surfing our Surf Life Support™ team is proud to provide the globally leading course in Surf First Aid. We have tailor-made formats for everyone:
Advanced
Surf Life Support- for Health Professionals
- 7 day course
- Extensive Course Manual & Handbook
- Extensive practical training, medical workshops & scenarious, lifesaving, pre-hospital care, outdoor medicine, etc.
- Including accommodation, course materials, coffee breaks, lunch, etc.
- Fully accredited, CME credits
Basic
Surf Life Support- for Everyone
- 1 day course
- Simple Online Preparation
- Practical Hands on training in Surf First Aid & Lifesaving.
- Including course materials
- Including Coffee breaks
- Course Certificate*
Custom
Surf Life Support- for Surf Schools, Wave Pools, Companies
- Custom duration, matching your needs
- Custom online preparation & handbbook
- Customized pracitcal and handson training in Surf First Aid & Life Saving
- Including course materials
- Course Certificates*
- Custom made for you
The next ASLS course scheduled for 1st-8th October 2022.
Registration will open soon – stay up to date by pre-registering today!
Conferences
World Conference in Surfing Medicine
Meet likeminded surfing health and medicine enthusiast during this yearly during this yearly three-day event.
The team of SMI is working hard on the next live post-covid event, subscribe to our newsletter below to stay up to date.
Learn about topics such as event management, training and conditioning, performance psychology, nutrition and anti-doping regulation, injury prevention, local and environmental hazards – e.g. marine envenomation, and gender-specific health needs. In addition, core Surfing Medicine topics such as drowning prevention and pre-hospital response will be examined.

Webinars
Live Online Events
Live webinars are a unique way of growing your knowledge and connections with likeminded surfers and professionals. Those webinars are exclusive to registered members of the SMI affiliate programme.
In the future we will also make past webinars available for registered affiliates for later viewing.

Next webinar: Maxillofacial Injuries in Surfing
20 April 2022
21:30 CET / 5:30 UTC-3 / 12:30 UTC-8
Maxillofacial Injuries in Surfing
Host: Olivier Chambres ENT Surgeon, Biarritz/ Bayonne, France
Signed up members of the SMI affiliate programme are currently informed exclusively by email on upcoming live webinars.
Not an SMI affiliate yet? Sign up now

Other Live Events
Surfing Medicine International gives back to the surfing community with short liver everyone events since 2014. Informants like “Surfer’s Academy”. The events are made to learn together, to get hands-on training on basic techniques and to connect surfers with professionals in training, health care, environmental topics, among other.
Due to the current situation with COVID-19 there are currently no dates planned in 2022 for the Surfer’s Academy.