Dr Peter Hedley-Smith / Wine Journalist and Student / Cape Town, South Africa Wild Medix is a wilderness, tactical, urban first aid and rescue training company based in South Africa. They offer a variety of courses in South Africa and Kenya with medical training alongside practical skills in canyoneering, wilderness and mountains. The Mt Kenya expedition course combines the expedition […]

The RGS Expedition Medicine Advisory Group discusses considerations for companies and participants, alongside pragmatic suggestions and protocols to prioritise COVID-safe travel.

Wilderness Medical Training (WMT) is a UK based company who have been providing expedition medical training courses for doctors, allied health professionals and non-medics for 30 years. WMT run a number of different courses each year varying from ski-touring in Norway to more classroom based teaching at home, all with a focus of medical care in remote settings.
Unfortunately, due to the Covid-19 pandemic overseas courses have been put on hold in 2021. However, WMT have introduced a new ‘Adventure Medicine’ course held in the Lake District as a domestic alternative.

Dr Sam Goodhand tells us about working with the Australian Retrieval Service and the healthcare challenges posed by the vast distances of the Outback

Dr Lydia Potter reviews her experience of Unique Expeditions Wales Wilderness Medicine Course in spring 2021.

Our resident expedition dentistry expert, Dr Burjor Langdana, provides excellent video learning resources on the topic of expedition dentistry.

Dr Ella Bennett describes her experience of living and working in The Shetland Islands of northernmost Scotland. In Shetland, coordination of remote healthcare is balanced with stunning coastlines, and some of the best wildlife encounters in the world.

Dr Lari Trease / Sports and Exercise Medicine Physician / University of Tasmania, Australia Dr Trease is an Australian Sport and Exercise Physician and the Unit Coordinator for Extreme Sports Medicine, a subject that will be offered for the first time in 2021 as part of the Healthcare in Remote and Extreme Environments program at the University of Tasmania, Australia. […]

The British Mountain Medicine Society (BMMS) has teamed up with Life in the Fast Lane and the University of Central Lancashire to develop free online mountain medicine CPD. For those that haven’t yet completed it, the initial module is just 25 MCQs with CPD approval from the Royal College of Surgeons (Edinburgh). Access to the module can be found on […]

With a starting altitude of over five thousand metres, Bufo Ventures’ Mount Everest Marathon is recognised by the Guinness Book of World Records as the world’s highest marathon. Dr Nishma Shah shares her enriching experiences from working within the medical team on this unique event.