Empower Yourself with Lifesaving First Aid Skills
NZQA-approved first aid courses from a family business with over 30 years of experience.
First Aid Classes Across New Zealand
MediTrain runs first aid classes at convenient venues across New Zealand, from Northland to Southland. Choose your region to see local course dates, venues and the team you'll be training with.
Core Courses
Comprehensive Workplace First Aid
Recommended for most workplaces. Covers CPR, choking, bleeding, shock, a wide range of injuries and illnesses, and managing multiple casualties.
Basic Workplace First Aid
The minimum required for low-risk workplaces. Covers CPR, choking, bleeding, shock and common injuries and illnesses.
First Aid Refresher
For anyone with a current certificate due for renewal. Recertify with us regardless of your previous provider.
Comprehensive Childcare First Aid
For early childhood teachers and workers. Meets the first aid requirements of the ECE licensing criteria.
CPR / Basic Life Support
A great introduction to basic first aid. Focuses on high-quality CPR and using an AED.
Mental Health First Aid
Provides you with the skills and knowledge to offer immediate first aid to a person experiencing a mental health crisis.
Onsite Training for Your Whole Team
Got 8 or more people? We'll bring the course to your workplace, school or early childhood centre. We can start at a time suitable for you - morning, afternoon, evenings or weekends. We are flexible and will try to meet your requirements.
Why Choose MediTrain?
We're a family business that has been delivering first aid training for over 30 years. As an NZQA Category 1 education provider, we base everything we teach on New Zealand Resuscitation Council guidelines, and we design all our course materials right here in New Zealand.
Learning that sticks
Our courses mix video, props, hands-on practice and real scenarios, because in an emergency you don't want to remember a boring class. You want to remember what to do.
Flexible by design
Complete your theory online whenever it suits you, then attend a single day in class. No full days lost to slides and lectures, and no starting from scratch on course day.
Engaging instructors
Many of our instructors come from paramedic, nursing or healthcare backgrounds, and all of them are skilled at adapting to how each person in the room learns best.
What our students say about us
FAQs
Answers to questions we hear most often.
Most workplace courses run from half a day to a full day in class, plus online self-study you complete beforehand. Refresher and CPR courses are shorter, around 4.5 hours.
No. Our courses suit complete beginners as well as people renewing an existing certificate.
Yes. MediTrain courses are NZQA-approved and aligned with unit standards 6400, 6401, and 6402, and are WorkSafe NZ compliant for workplace first aid.
Yes. For groups of eight or more we can deliver training at your workplace, school, or childcare centre, with optional customisation.
Ready to get certified?
Start your course today and gain the confidence to respond when it matters most.
