Course Dates
Course Dates
Cost and Options
Price is for double occupancy lodging. Email josh@tahoewildernessmedicine.com with questions and other lodging options.
Course Location
Target Audience
Physicians and other medical professionals who engage in wilderness activities, who counsel individuals who take part in such activities, or who are likely to encounter illness or injury in remote or resource-limited settings.
CME Information
The Wilderness Medical Society designates this educational activity for a maximum of 13 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM. Each physician should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Up to 13 hours California Continuing Education credits are available for Emergency Medical Technicians and Paramedics.
CME Surf Camp, Playa Venao, Panama!
Learn practical wilderness medicine skills in an outdoor environment
Through lectures, hands-on sessions, and scenarios, you will enhance your medical training and learn to apply your medical knowledge to the outdoor environment.CME classes will happen in both morning and evening sessions. The hands on practice and scenarios will occur throughout the course at a variety of times appropriate to the scenario and the days activity.
TOPICS INCLUDE:
Introduction to Wilderness Medicine
- Wilderness Patient Assessment
- Heat Related Illness
- Lightning Injuries
- Wound Management and Burns
- Drowning/Submersion/Dive Injuries
- Bites, Stings, Animal Attacks
- Cold Related Illness
- Wilderness Trauma - Case Based Workshop
Educational Objectives
After attending this conference, the participants will be able to:
- Demonstrate increased awareness of medical problems unique to the wilderness and austere environments
- Prevent, diagnose and manage illnesses or injuries in the wilderness and/or remote location
- Promote increased awareness of safety and accident prevention in wilderness surroundings
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education through the joint providership of the Wilderness Medical Society and Tahoe Wilderness Medicine, LLC. The Wilderness Medical Society is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
Tahoe Wilderness Medicine, LLC reserves the right to change or substitute course faculty without advance or prior notice to participants.
All educational content presented in this activity has been reviewed and validated as appropriate in keeping with sound scientific principles.
Faculty
Faculty Disclosure
None of the faculty/planners for this educational activity have relevant financial relationships to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.