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Course Structure
The course involves several components including Classroom instruction, outdoor laboratory sessions and a 4-5 day wilderness excursion involving rescue scenarios, canoeing, hiking, and camping. Courses are taught by attending physicians and participating emergency medicine residents. The classroom curriculum has been designed to provide and in-depth exposure to the theory of Wilderness and Travel Medicine. The outdoor laboratory sessions provide and opportunity for participants to apply this theory in a practical setting. After three weeks of classroom and laboratory instruction, the course will move outdoors to the Blue Ridge Mountains. In this setting a wide range of wilderness scenarios will be experienced. Fundamentals of search and rescue, survival training and wilderness emergencies will be practiced and reviewed. Plenty of leisure time is set aside for day hikes, rafting, canoeing, fishing , or just reflecting on the days adventures. By the end of the course the participants should have an understanding of the epidemiology, physiology and clinical practice of Wilderness, Environmental, and Travel Medicine. |
