Expedition Medicine Course
Expedition Medicine and Wilderness Medical Training Course, KESWICK, CUMBRIA.
Expedition Medicine and Wilderness Medical Training Course for Medical Professionals is considered by many to be the gold standard for UK or European based courses aimed at potential and experienced expedition doctors and wilderness expedition medics. Read the BMJ write up on the course here.
£595 plus VAT. Price includes all food, event manual and accommodation.
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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, Cumbria - helping the environment in the face of climate change. 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.
Dates
9th - 12th September 2008 - now taking applications
Location; Barrow House Youth Hostel, Borrowdale, Keswick, Cumbria
23rd - 26th March 2009 - now taking applications
Location; Barrow House Youth Hostel, Borrowdale, Keswick, Cumbria
Email us for an information pack. or download a form
- EML Application form (.PDF) ...(requires Adobe Acrobat)
Suggested Reading List
- Travel Medicine
- Oxford Handbook of Expedition and Wilderness Medicine (Oxford Handbooks)
- RGS Expedition Medicine Handbook
- Mountaincraft and Leadership, Eric Langmuir
- Oxford Handbook of Tropical Medicine
- Casualty Care in Mountain Rescue, John Ellerton
Handbook of Climbing (Pelham Practical Sports)
- The Complete Guide to Rope Techniques
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 Medical Training 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. Should you wish to stay longer you can make arrangements directly with the hostal and there is a wide range of holiday accommodation available locally. To visit the Expedition Centre click here to call; 0870 770 5792 or email here.
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 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.
In March we are delighted to have join us Andy Cave, mountaineer and author. His life is testament to how motivation plus teamwork and an ability not to be limited by the expectations of others can lead to the realisation of extraordinary goals. In 1997, Andy reached the summit of the notoriously difficult Himalayan mountain, Changabang, by one of the most desperate routes ever recorded. What makes his story even more incredible is the realisation that this ascent began 15 years earlier, 3,000 feet underground.
At 16, Andy followed in his father’s and grandfather’s footsteps and became a miner. Enduring the 1984-5 miners’ strikes – the poverty, the division of communities, the broken friendships – Andy turned increasingly to climbing to relieve the drudgery and stress. In 1986, he decided to educate himself, acquiring almost from a standing start, academic qualifications including a PhD in socio-linguistics. During this period, mountaineering became a life-affirming obsession, and saw him climb some of the world's most challenging test pieces, including the infamous north face of the Eiger at just 20 years old. Andy soon became a figurehead for the sport. He had a leading role in the acclaimed BBC 2 series Wild Climbs and has featured regularly on national radio. His best selling book Learning to Breathe has won two literary awards and has been translated into German and Italian.
The idea of establishing the Expedition Medicine and Wilderness Medical Training 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 Medical Training 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 and Professor David Warrell founding director of Oxford’s Centre for Tropical Medicine and author of 'Expedition Medicine' kindly agreed to become some of our guest speakers. 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.
Expedition Medicine and Wilderness Medical Training | Course Outline
Expedition Medicine and Wilderness Medical Training Course | Suggested kit list
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