| The Wilderness Medicine Program is an outgrowth of our School of Medicine's main goal: developing primary care physicians. This unique program recognizes that quality medical care is not defined by hospital walls or even by walls at all. It is our belief that creative thinking and decision making may be enhanced when taken outside the context of the usual classroom setting where rote is the order of the day. Wilderness, combined with a supportive learning environment, offers an ideal backdrop against which to expand clinical competencies. |
| This program will allow participants to complete a fully accredited residency in Family Practice, receive special training in community-oriented family medicine with an emphasis in wilderness medicine, complete electives in wilderness settings. |
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We will:
- 1) sponsor your membership in the Wilderness Medical Society;
- 2) provide a syllabus of readings and the text, WILDERNESS MEDICINE, edited by Paul Auerbach;
- 3) send you to the annual scientific meeting of the Wilderness Medical Society for one of your three years here;
- 4) provide a two-week learning experience in wilderness medicine topics in the first year;
- 5) allow you to participate in a multi-week wilderness medicine course during your second year;
- 6) arrange for 4-6 weeks of field experiences in desert, tropical, high altitude or temperate climate settings for which we will cover airfare and lodging expenses in your third year. This rotation will be tailored to your educational goals
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| The diverse backgrounds and interests of our faculty offer solid support for the Wilderness Medicine Track. Members of our faculty have expertise in many areas related to wilderness medicine including trekking, survival, emergency medicine, tropical medicine, high altitude medicine, white water rafting, diving medicine, environmental medicine and envenomations. The director of the Wilderness Medicine Track has spent time in isolated regions in the Amazon Basin on a yearly basis for the past thirty years. |
