At the completion of the two week elective, students will be able to:
Define wilderness medicine, and how it applies to everyday clinical practice in a hospital and pre-hospital setting.
Manage common traumatic injuries and illness in an austere environments, including initial stabilization and extraction.
Understand diagnosis and management of specific wilderness medicine topics, including altitude illness, avalanche, disaster medicine, dive medicine, heat illness, hypothermia, envenomations, naturally occurring toxin ingestions, submersions, and travel medicine
Understand concepts in search and rescue and swift water rescue.
Describe concepts of expedition medicine, and effectively plan for expected medical issues based on environment, group size, age, and comorbidities of participants.