Outside-In and Inside-Out: Incorporating Wilderness Medicine into Medical Education

Outside-In and Inside-Out: Incorporating Wilderness Medicine into Medical
Education (Wilderness Medicine Interest Group Sponsored)
Emergency medicine can extend beyond the walls of the classroom or emergency department, therefore educational initiatives need to be inclusive of wilderness and resource-limited medicine. Wilderness medicine covers a broad range of topics including overlap with disaster medicine, EMS/pre-hospital care, international medicine, toxicology, and ultrasound. Many medical students, residents, and fellows are eager to engage in opportunities and rotations in wilderness medicine, however a limited number of rotations and programs exist. Wilderness medicine opportunities can also be a powerful factor in recruitment and retention of learners and faculty. Since most of the modern diagnostic technologies (such as bloodwork, advanced imaging, cardiac monitoring, and specialist consultation) are unavailable, resource-limited wilderness medicine requires strong history and physical skills, critical thinking about available resources, and improvised medical care. Therefore, it can be a way for learners to strengthen their intuition, diagnostic, and problem-solving skills that are applicable in the emergency department as well. In this session, we will explore ways to integrate wilderness medicine into medical school curriculums and residency training. We will examine wilderness medicine fellowship development and collaboration with other fellowships. We will also discuss opportunities for faculty to increase their knowledge and skills though CME opportunities. The session will begin with presentations by several of the faculty members, then open up to questions from the panel from a wide variety of experience in teaching wilderness medicine in different settings. Finally, we will split into small breakout groups (divided into medical school, residency, fellowship, and faculty/CME) to discuss specific strategies to address your own learning interests and implementing WM education opportunities at your institution.
Presenters:
Sanjey Gupta, MD MBA
Henderson D. McGinnis, MD
Stuart Harris, MD MFA
Walter A. Schrading, MD
Hillary R. Irons, MD PhD
Lara Phillips, MD
Katja Goldflam, MD
Taylor Haston, DO, DiMM, MBS, MPH
Stanley E. Chartoff, MD, MPH, FACEP, FAWM