Civilian Medical has launched CM1 Online, an expanded version of Shawn Herrin’s in-person medical class built for people who have been asking for the course but can’t get to a live class.
The course grew out of the same message Herrin kept getting from students, listeners, instructors, churches, ranges, companies, training groups, and agencies: when are you bringing the medical class here?
The answer, for a long time, depended on travel.
Herrin has taught the class in person around the country, but the demand eventually outgrew the calendar. CM1 Online was built to solve that problem without turning the course into a flat presentation.
“I love teaching this class in person, but I can’t travel all over the country every week,” Herrin said in launch materials for the course. “So I built CM1 Online.”
The course runs on Rally Learn, an e-learning software platform built by Herrin after researching over a year. CM1 Online isn’t being presented as a smaller version of the in-person class. It adds more structure, more repetition, more examples, more checks for understanding, and more time for students to work through the material.
It also avoids the usual online-course trap: clicking through a boring presentation and calling it training. CM1 Online uses different slide types, interactions, quizzes, progress tracking, student accounts, organization tools, partner tools, and scenario-based practice.
The scenario engine is the part Civilian Medical is putting front and center. In plain English, it’s basically a game engine for medical practice. Students can run through scenes, make decisions, treat what they find, and practice the course’s S.A.F.E. and B.A.R.E. frameworks instead of only hearing about them in a lesson.
S.A.F.E. is the course’s first decision loop: scene safety, activating help, focusing on the injured, and evacuation decisions. B.A.R.E. is the treatment framework students use to think through bleeding, airway, respiration, and exposure.
The point is reps.
CM1 Online is built around the idea that students need more than a list of gear or a lecture about what different tools do. The course walks students through what to notice, what to do first, what not to skip, when different tools make sense, and how to keep working the problem until EMS arrives.
That is where the scenario engine matters. A student can work through a messy situation, make choices, see the consequences, and run the decision process again. It gives students a way to practice S.A.F.E. and B.A.R.E. before they ever find themselves trying to remember the steps under stress.
CM1 Online is also built for groups that need a medical-training baseline but don’t want to wait for an in-person class date. Organizations can use Rally Learn’s tools to assign seats, invite students, manage access, and track completion.
The course is also available to instructors who want to send their own students through CM1 Online before or after live training. Instructor partner tools are included through Rally Learn, along with co-branded and referral options.
The launch lands in a familiar spot for preparedness-minded people: plenty of folks own medical gear, but far fewer have practiced what to do with it under stress. CM1 Online is built to give students a structured way to practice those decisions before they need them.
CM1 Online is available now through Civilian Medical.
