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May 22, 2022
During stressful times, it’s human nature to want to simplify and return to the basics. During the early COVID lockdown, I turned to the outdoors. It not only felt good to get outside in safe spaces ...
"Never say no to adventures. Always say yes. Otherwise you will lead a very dull life." -Ian Fleming
Meet these Wilderness Fellows: Nicholas Black, UC San Diego; Ashlee Davis, UMass-Baystate Health; Liz Hamilton, Dartmouth Hitchcock; and Cal Staben, Wake Forest
May was Mental Health Awareness Month, and in case you missed it, the May issue of ACEP Now featured articles focused on behavioral health, including The Importance of System-Level Wellness, How to Ap...
November 4, 2021 • Wilderness Photo Contests
Catch a slide show of stunning landscapes and thrilling wilderness adventures some our members embarked on this past year! COVID reduced the ability to travel to exotic wilderness destinations, but ou...
October 19, 2021 • Wilderness Section
The Wilderness Medicine Section will be hosting its annual meeting in person during ACEP21 in Boston. A virtual option is also available to section members. Tuesday, October 26, 2021 4:30 PM – 7:00 PM...
October 18, 2021
Hello friends, colleagues, and fellow wilderness explorers! I hope this letter finds all of you doing well as we slide right into the fall months. I’m not sure how time always seems to pass so fast, b...
Participation in ultraendurance races has rapidly gained popularity over the past two decades. Although delayed from the continuously increasing participation rate in marathon running, ultramarathons ...
I pulled into the parking lot, just a glimmer of sun visible in the pre-dawn darkness. Only one other car was in sight, which meant my 4:30am wakeup and 30 minute drive to the Wilderness Information ...
I spent most of my early life living on the flatlands where the adventurous would summit upwards of 6000 ft. These could be arduous journeys to be certain but lacked the constant spectre of hypobaric...
Meet Alex Herndon, MD, Wilderness Medicine Fellow at University of California, Irvine; Ty Stannard, MD, Wilderness Medicine Fellow at Virginia Tech- Carilion School of Medicine and Tina Drake, MD, Wil...
EMRA will be hosting the 6th annual MedWAR event at ACEP on Thursday, October 28th, 2021.
Vertical Social Distancing, Unnamed goat and Hope in Mount Hood, Oregon
April 28, 2021
Hi everyone! I'm Mia Derstine, the current wilderness medicine fellow at the University of Colorado. I'm originally from Hong Kong/Chicago, did med school at University of Michigan, and EM residency a...
Greetings friends and colleagues! I can hardly believe we are moving briskly into the spring months of 2021. I am personally very happy to welcome warmer weather and more hours of sunlight in the day,...
April 27, 2021
As part of the Medical College of Georgia Wilderness Medicine Fellowship curriculum, I attended a survival skills course put on by the Mountain Shepherd Adventure School in Catawba, Virginia.
Breathing clean air in California (COVID safe and wildfire free) Rae Lakes Loop, Kings Canyon / Sequoia National Park Patrick Burns, MD Feeling small in the San Juans Island Lake, CO David Young, MD “...
Many have fears rooted in experience or the unknown. The 1990 ‘comedy’ film “Arachnophobia” started mine even though my suburban childhood was filled with tales of Charlotte spinning words in webs and...
In the age of COVID-19, medical education has drastically increased the use of online lectures, conferences, and meetings. I realized this new virtual format would be well suited for a monthly journal...
Will our generation of medical students be the most introverted yet? Every Monday morning since medical school started in the fall, I sit down at my desk and settle in for a day of Zoom lectures.
Due to the Coronavirus pandemic, schools from elementary to doctorate have shifted standard in-person education to a virtual platform in an effort to maintain social distancing, ultimately limiting th...
October 3, 2020
If you’ve heard about the devastating pandemic hitting our country this year, then you’re also familiar with the uncovering of racial tensions related to police brutality and systemic oppression.
The University of Maryland, Baltimore School of Medicine Wilderness Medicine Interest Group (WMIG) took 13 students on a whitewater rafting trip down the Shenandoah and Potomac rivers, where they were...
Featuring Aubri Charnigo, MD and Brian Strickland, MD
The EMRA Wilderness Committee are happy to present a brand-new event, the Wilderness Olympics, that will take place at Unconventional ACEP 2020.