Wilderness Medicine Track - Curriculum

The curriculum is designed to create experts in wilderness clinical care, research, and education. Graduates of the program will also have the experience to be advisors to outdoor education groups or search & rescue teams. 

WMT Year One

• complete Outdoor Emergency Care course
• complete Helicopter Safety Training course
• complete a minimum of 2 LifeFlight Observer flights
• complete Wilderness Advanced Life Support (WALS) course

WMT Years Two and Three

• complete Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) course
• complete Ground Search/NASAR Technician course
• attend at least 1 wilderness medicine CME conference
• teach at least 1 community wilderness medicine class (minimum 4 hours teaching time)
• complete at least 1 month wilderness medicine elective
• present a wilderness medicine topic at CMMC Grand Rounds
• publish at least 2 wilderness medicine articles or poster presentations

Longitudinal

• review the personal Learning Contract with the WMT Faculty Mentor biannually
• maintain Wilderness Medical Society annual membership
• organize CMMC FPR Wilderness Medicine Interest Group
• assist with teaching OEC and WALS courses
• organize 1 outdoor trip per year for Residents & Faculty
• teach at least 2 noon conferences per year on Wilderness Medicine Core Topics
• attend or teach lectures on each of the 10 1-hour Wilderness Medicine Core Topics

Wilderness Medicine Ten Core Topics

• hypothermia, frostbite, chilblains, & trench foot
• altitude illnesses                                   
• envenomations, plants              
• diarrhea & water treatment            
• heat illness & lightning                   
• marine & dive medicine
• trauma & orthopedics
• travel medicine & non-GI infectious diseases
• special populations (women, children, chronic disease)
• search & rescue (theory, med control, CISD)

Benefits

• Outdoor Emergency Care course fees
• Wilderness Advanced Life Support course fees
• NASAR Ground Search Technician course fees
• Wilderness Medical Society three-year membership
• Wilderness & Environmental Medicine three-year subscription
• Wilderness Medicine (4th Ed.) by P. Auerbach
• Wilderness Medical Society Practice Guidelines (2nd Ed) by W. Forgey, Ed.
• Wilderness medicine elective expenses ($1000)