Wildnerness Medicine (ME-4155/EM-4155)
Elective Description
The wilderness medicine elective is a combination of lectures, hands-on skills training, and simulation scenarios to help students gain an appreciation for low-resource medicine and treatment of common injuries and illnesses encountered in the wilderness setting. Students will learn splinting, emergency patient transport, and life-saving wilderness procedures.
Class will involve self-study assignments, didactic sessions, and hands-on with outdoor sessions. Didactic sessions may be in-person or virtual. Active and hands-on outdoors sessions will include planning and executing patient assessments and treatments, patient evacuations, and survival skills with optional weather-dependent outdoor activity options including hiking, biking, climbing, and camping with interspersed simulations. Not all classrooms have four walls.
Topics:
- Altitude ilness
- Avalanche
- Lightning
- Envenomations
- Toxic plants
- Frostbite
- Dive Emergencies
- Wilderness survival skills
Date: This elective is usually held in early April for 2 weeks.
Contact Information: Hillary Irons, MD