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October 18, 2021
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.
October 2, 2020
I’m not sure exactly how it started happening, but perhaps given my overlapping interests in food, foraging, and wilderness medicine, my friends have sent me numerous photos of mushrooms in the last f...
October 1, 2020
Greetings everyone! Well, here we are, September 2020. It is hard to believe we are entering the fall season and only have several months until the start of a new year!
August 10, 2020 • Wilderness Photo Contests
The winning image from our 2020 Wilderness Medicine Section Photo Contest Into the Mist and Smoke Brian Tanksley Spacer-rule Gallery of Images Catch a slide show of stunning landscapes and thrilling ...
June 30, 2020
Most people think of ice climbing as quite an extreme sport. After all, climbing a frozen waterfall isn’t something humans were evolutionarily designed for.
Being a medical provider is more than a profession, it is a full value pursuit. The range of emotions and experiences that it encompasses spans from profound and rewarding to downright awful and uncom...
June 30, 2020 • News
Simulated training has found a foothold in the core principles of medical education in this country.
I hope everyone is staying healthy and cautious amidst these unchartered waters of not only Covid19, but also the year 2020, that so far has shown many challenges in the past 6 months.
Greeting ACEP Wilderness Section! It’s been a long time and a lot has changed in the world.
June 22, 2020
James Marvel is the outgoing wilderness medicine fellow at Stanford University. He originally hails from the rugged mountain state of Florida, where one can enjoy unparalleled views of the Florida-Geo...
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