Expedition Medicine Course
7-10 September 2009 (Barrow House, Keswick)
FULLY BOOKED
22-25 March 2010 (Barrow House, Keswick)
Taking bookings
10-13 May 2010 (Plas y Brenin, North Wales)
Taking bookings
2009 course £774.00 (£673.04 + VAT). Price includes all food, event manual and accommodation during the course.
2010 courses £830.00 (721.74 + VAT). Price includes all food, event manual and accommodation during the course.
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Medicine - Expedition - Team
'This is the reality of working in remote locations and the Expedition Medicine and Wilderness Medicine course reflects this superbly'. Dr Sean Hudson.
The aim of the Expedition Medicine and Wilderness Medicine Course is to provide aspiring and experienced expedition doctors, nurses, paramedics and advanced medics with the skills and practical knowledge to become valuable members of an expedition team. The UK expedition medicine course is intensive and thorough, drawing on the wealth of skills within the Expedition Medicine faculty.
The courses are run over a 4-day period and are based in the stunning Barrow House Youth Hostel, Borrowdale, Keswick and Britains premier training centre at Plas Y Brenin The National Mountain Centre in Capel Curig, Snowdonia. Should you wish to stay longer in Keswick or Plas Y Brenin you can make arrangements directly with the centres and there is a wide range of holiday accommodation available locally.
To see our Lake District Expedition Centre click here or call; 0870 770 5792 or email Barrow House YHA here. For find out more about our Snowdonia training centre visit their website here; Plas Y Brenin - The National Mountain Centre.
There will be both a lecture and outdoors education programme (60/ 40) and the course members will be pushed both mentally and physically. The Expedition & Wilderness Medicine faculty aims to present the valuable skills in a logical and progressive fashion, culminating in a day of moulage and subsequent feedback. To accompany the course a comprehensive manual is provided free of charge as is membership of the RemoteMed Association which gives you access to extensive ongoing support. 
Expedition and Wilderness Medicine is supporting the Woodland Trust, the UK's leading woodland conservation charity, by funding a dedicated site at Dufton Ghyll Wood and Brothybeck Welton near Allerdale. On completion of the Plas y Brenin course a site within the Snowdonia national park will be selected. For each UK course run a further quarter of an acre is supported.
Additionally we support the volunteer Mountain Rescue Teams. A proportion of your course fee is donated to a local mountain rescue team.
Useful information for the course
- Course Outline (UK course)
- Suggested kit list (UK course)
Suggested Reading List
- Expedition & Wilderness Medicine Book - A 223 page medical field guide to Expedition Medicine
- Included as part of the course cost (issued on arrival)
- Casualty Care in Mountain Rescue, John Ellerton
- High Altitude Medicine & Physiology authored by John West, Robert Schoene and James Milledge. SAVE 20%! Order your copy online today for only £63.20. Remember to quote promotional code WP0001972 at the checkout when prompted.
The idea of establishing the Expedition Medicine and Wilderness Medicine Course came about as a result of a fireside conversation between a group of expedition leaders and medics resting after a day's trekking in the Namib Desert in Namibia and from there EML was born. It took us a while to put together what we consider to be one of the most impressively experienced, motivated and good humoured expedition medicine training teams available in the UK, but we think the effort was worth it.
The faculty of Expedition Medicine and Wilderness Medicine Course team has been selected not only for their academic qualifications but also for their expedition experience, and for their ability to put across the passion and enthusiasm with which they regard the subject. They probably represent one of the most select teams of expedition experienced teachers in the UK and their expedition experience ranges from Antarctica to Namibia, from China to Chile. They continue to be active in their varied fields of expedition and wilderness medicine and we are very lucky to be able to gather them all in one place at the same time.
We were honoured to have one of the world's leading experts on Altitude Medicine, Dr Jim Milledge join our faculty staff in 2007. Jim was part of the legendary Silver Hut Expedition in 1960 led by Sir Edmund Hillary with Dr Griffith Pugh as the Scientific Leader. Other members included John West and Michael Ward. He is an author on many scientific papers and one of three authors (with West and Ward) of the standard textbook High Altitude Medicine and Physiology; the fourth edition is in press. Now in retirement, Jim can indulge his professional hobby almost full time and besides lecturing and writing, was Chairman of Medical Expeditions, a charity and club with the aims of furthering research and education in mountain medicine. He achieved this by running courses (including the Diploma course in Mountain Medicine) and research expeditions. Major Medex expeditions that Jim joined were in 1998 to Kangchenjunga and in 2003 to Chamlang Base Camp in the Everest region of Nepal. In 2004 Jim was elected President of the International Society of Mountain Medicine.
In 2008 expedition medic Sundeep Dhillon joined the facualty. In 2005, Dr Mike Stroud of Polar fame. Previous to this our speakers have included Simon Yates, John Howarth from Merlin International and Everest summiteer Stephen Venables.
Useful Expedition Health and Safety Links
We maintain an extensive list of expedition medicine reference materials targeted at Expedition Doctors and Wilderness Medical Technicians in our resources section.
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