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'Wild Medicine' - a Conservation Medicine Conference 16.5 CME Namibia
11 June 2012 to 16 June 2012
Conservation Medicine focuses on the relationships between human health, animal health and the health of the environment.
The main objective of the course is to educate attendees as to how we can integrate the diagnostic and problem solving skills of both human and animal health professionals with the knowledge of conservation professionals, to ultimately better manage the environment and biodiversity to the benefit of all the inhabitants of our beautiful planet.
The emerging interdisciplinary field of conservation medicine, which integrates human and veterinary medicine and environmental sciences, is largely concerned with zoonose. At the present time there is very little sharing knowledge in both an academic and practical session and this course serves to address this significant gap.
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Expedition & Wilderness Medicine - Course Accreditation
In a unique association with the Wilderness Medical Society we are able to offer the ability to earn 16.5 CME and credits towards the Wilderness Medicine Fellowship Program to gain the FAWM.
'This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education through the joint sponsorship of the Wilderness Medical Society and Expedition Medicine. The Wilderness Medical Society is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
The Wilderness Medical Society designates this educational activity for a maximum of 16.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits TM. Each physician should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.'
The RCGP also estimate our Expedition Medicine Courses can generate between 10 and 20 CPD credits towards revalidation for GPs in the UK, depending on the personal challenge and impact of individual activities.
The term 'conservation medicine' was first used in the mid-1990s, and represents a significant paradigm shift in both medicine and environmentalism. While the hands-on process in individual cases is complicated, the underlying concept of inter-relationships is quite intuitive, namely, that all things are related. The threat of zoonotic diseases—cross-species diseases that travel to humans from other animals—is central.
Traditional procedural approaches to disease transmission investigate the relationship, both physical and societal, between humans and the environment, as a exception rather than the rule. The inter-specialist nature of Conservation Medicine provides hope for significant understanding of the manner in which transmission takes place.
In considering the relationship between nature and human health as a dynamic system, the study of conservation medicine has the ability to provide a far greater understanding of complex medical source issues, putting the issue firmly in the public domain and making it one of public interest. For instance, global warming may have vaguely-defined long-term impacts, but when an immediate effect is a relatively slight rise in air temperature, which in turn raises the flight ceiling for temperature-sensitive mosquitoes, allowing them to infect higher flying migratory birds, which in turn carry a disease from one country or continent to another, the issue becomes more real.
Specific focus is placed on aspects such as:
• Human wildlife conflict
• Emerging technology to reduce human wildlife conflict
• The role of habitat destruction on the emergence of zoonotic diseases
• Specific animal diseases and wildlife anaesthesia
• Specific human diseases (zoonoses) and treatment thereof
Located at the stunning N/a'ankuse Lodge and Wildlife Sanctuary set on the slopes of a dolomite hill and situated only 42kms east of Windhoek, amidst a natural savannah, riverine vegetation, lush grass plains and magnificent mountain views, is . This truly unique lodge, sited on 1,500ha of former farmland, offersa (malaria free) Wild Medicine course.
Itinerary
Day 1 Introduction to Conservation Medicine
Human Medicine. Lecture on common African zoonotic diseases, their prevalence, origins, signs and symptoms, special investigations, treatment and prognosis.
Diseases covered in the lecture include the following:
HIV
TB
Rabies
Tick Bite Fever
Crimean Congo Fever
Anthrax
Snakes, Spiders, Scorpions Terrestrial Envenomation. A practical session with real snakes, spiders and scorpions, covering how to identify, diagnose and manage envenomation in the field, including antivenom stability and use.
Practical Session:
Excursion to Windhoek to examine patients with HIV and TB, reviewing special investigations such as x-rays.
Day 2 Animal and Human Health. A Study of Zoonosis. Historic cases of disease transmission from humans to wildlife.
Impact of tourism on animal health
Wildlife immobilization
Wildlife capture
Wildlife translocation
Practical Session:
Wildlife immobilization techniques
Darting equipment and the use of a dart gun
Wildlife anaesthesia and monitoring
Day 3 Impact of Wildlife Conservation. Specie conservation issues focusing on highly endangered species such as the African wild dog, cheetah and leopard.
Wildlife monitoring techniques
Wildlife handling
Disease transmission reduction
Practical Session:
The use of radio telemetry
Safe collaring of wildlife
Aerial tracking of wildlife
A Cessna flight for a group of 3 people into a study sight using radio telemetry skills (optional charge).
Day 4 Human Welfare: Global Warming Creating Shifting Zoonosis Boundaries
Biodiversity loss and the impact thereof.
Habitat loss and its impact on the boundaries between human and wildlife populations.
Environmental impacts global warming, human activities in remote areas.
Practical Session:
Using San (Bushman Trackers) and recognised Namibia bush experts to carry out a field excursion to areas of the reserve where different parasites such as ticks can be identified. How to safely remove ticks from patients; bush walk with San / bushman trackers identifying “bush (veld) food” which the original inhabitants of southern Africa lived on.
Making course attendees aware of subtle impacts of human encroachment and destruction of wildlife habitat and its impact upon disease transmission.
Spoor identification and tracking
Day 5 Survival and Medical Issues Associated with African Bush Travel.
Common medical problems in the arid environments.
Heat related illness and hydration.
Field management of heat stroke in the field.
Managing fractures and dislocations in the wilderness.
Bush navigation.
Practical Session:
Group bush exercise utilising navigation, spoor identification, risk assessment, tracking and casualty management skills.
Day 6 Course completes after breakfast
