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We’ve refreshed this fun, intensive and technical Chamonix based course that combines mountain medicine training with professional ski tuition and guiding in one brilliant package. What’s new in ’22?

• 6 days on snow (previously 5)
• 7 night’s shared chalet accommodation INCLUDED
• Complimentary “avo” kit loan – transceiver, shovel & probe

Six days of guided skiing on / off piste includes an intro to ski touring. Learn to ski UP mountains to access remote terrain. Ten hours of insightful medical tuition (on/off slope). Shared apartment accommodation for 7 night’s and complimentary loan of avalanche safety kit (transceiver, shovel and probe) is included this year. Raise your game and develop your skiing competence so that you might have the skills to join a ski touring party off piste, ski all terrain and be more able to provide emergency medical care in the mountains. No climbing or mountaineering experience required, however, you must ski to the minimum standard outlined on the webpage and be ski fit. 10 max per course with 3 staff. At least 12 CPD hours. 2022 dates are 15-22 January and 5-12 March. Just added – new dates 23-30 January.

Book with a deposit. Places limited and demand is high! More details here.

We are delighted that Dr Duncan Gray is WMT’s new Medical Director, after Dr Harvey Pynn has stepped down after 8 years in the role.

Duncan is an A&E Consultant and GP who began teaching with WMT on Explorer courses at Glenmore Lodge in 2014. His breadth of knowledge, passion for teaching and vast expedition experience quickly became apparent and Duncan rapidly established himself as a course director who has contributed more than any instructor to the full suite of WMT courses, both for non-medics. Read the full announcement in this August Newsletter. Duncan was also profiled in the January Newsletter – read it here. Duncan brings an astonishing amount of field experience and expertise to WMT and we are thrilled he is on board as Medical Director. Duncan said “I’m delighted to be stepping up to the MD role and excited about the future of WMT courses. I very much enjoy teaching wilderness medicine and sharing my experience and enthusiasm for adventure travel with medics and explorers alike. Formal training in wilderness medicine was scarce when I started out. WMT broke the mould 30 years ago and I’m looking forward to contributing to its legacy.”

The Morocco Mountain Medicine Expedition 27 September – 3 October is going ahead. This exotic trip is packed with medical tuition and practical skills training (rope work, navigation and such) and culminates with an ascent of Jbel Toubkal (4167m), the highest mountain in North Africa followed by a night in Marrakech. Experience inspiring teaching and how an expedition should be expertly administered and led. Delegates from diverse medical backgrounds attend to live together and immerse themselves in many facets of austere medicine. 3 venues in-country starting from the plush Kasbah du Toubkal, moving up to a mountain refuge and one final night in a central Marrakech hotel. Excellent preparation to become more confident in the hills and build the skills of a mountain medic. Fully inclusive of all in-country services and arrangements (food, accommodation, transport).  30 CPD hours. See the webpage for full details about new favourable covid rules and simple re-entry to England test requirements, travel insurance, cheap flights, fees & online booking and more. And for more beautiful images of this trip see this special newsletter. See you in Maroc!

Last week saw our group of Adventure Medicine delegates enjoy the hottest week of the year on the shore of Ullswater, in Glenridding, The Lake District. EXPERIENTIAL was the word of the week. Active, fun and informative – everyone enjoyed the course and departed enthused and ready for more. “Has been an excellent 5 days!” wrote one delegate. This combined lake and mountain formula is a winner and we’re already planning to get summer 2022 dates in the diary very soon.

What a fantastic result in the Lake District last week on the first Adventure Medicine Medic course. An amazing group of delegates, great weather, dream team of instructors and so much fun, learning, vitamin D and friendship. See this special PHOTOS & FEEDBACK publication. One delegate said, “By far the best medical course I’ve been to”.

Spaces are still available on the 21-25 July course. For full syllabus details and online booking visit this page.

About this event

Are you interested in Global Emergency Care? Interested or involved in Global EM Fellowships? Want to find out more and develop your own career in Global EM? This new exciting national conference on Global Emergency Medicine features inspirational speakers including;

• Professor Tony Redmond OBE – Founder of UK-MED/UK-EMT
• Laura Hucks – Director of Kings Global Health Partnerships
• Clair Mills – Medical Director of Médecins Sans Frontières’
• Dr Christine Ngaruiya – Assistant Professor EM at Yale University
• Lt Col Simon Horne OBE – UK Military Humanitarian Support
• Lt Col Paul Reavley – Paediatric Blast Injury Partnership

And many more.

This is open to all Medics, Nurses, ACPs, Allied health professionals and students. It is a one day event taking place in the heart of Bristol.

For details and tickets see Eventbrite.

Short notice we know, but we’re looking for help to deliver a wilderness first aid workshop to a large group of undergraduates in Oxford on Friday 18 June. WMT’s Medical Director Dr Harvey Pynn will direct the day. Ideally you’ll know us and therefore be MEDIC course ALUMNI (a doctor or nurse) and are located reasonably close to Oxford. If interested and available, please get in touch by email without delay!

The June Adventure Medicine course sold out very quickly so we’ve added a second course 21-25 July in Glenridding on the shore of Ullswater, Lake District. We are very exciting about this new event. More details and online booking here.

Adventure Medicine is a new, longer “domestic” UK Lake District based course for medics in response to our overseas events being curtailed. Consider this WMT’s version of an educational, adventurous and career enhancing staycation! All welcome – med students, nurses, doctors and OHPs and non medics. LAST FEW PLACES REMAINING

This exciting, active 5-day programme encompasses 2 exploratory mountain training days and a one-day Canadian canoe expedition on Ullswater wrapped up and interspersed with practical fieldcraft sessions, core medical lectures, cases and tutorials, practical medical training and evening entertainment – keynote illustrated career lectures from faculty. The course basecamp is a fully equipped village hall (showers, Wifi) with a private camping field, secure parking and a gastropub a few hundred metres away. All meals are provided including sumptuous homecooked evening feasts. 26 delegates maximum. A good level of walking fitness and the right personal kit is needed to comfortably participate but prior expedition experience is not required. Three of the six teaching team members pictured below. Website details and online booking here.

This spring newsletter includes a course calendar update, an inspiring profile of our colleague Dr Alex Taylor, notice of overseas medic jobs, news of an Adventure Writing Workshop to support Headway, the brain injury charity and more. Enjoy! 

Read the full newsletter here.