EMRA Wilderness Olympics

This year, we, the EMRA Wilderness Committee, are happy to present a brand-new event, the Wilderness Olympics, that will take place at Unconventional ACEP 2020.

In lieu of a traditional MedWAR, this year the EMRA Wilderness Committee is presenting something different at Unconventional ACEP 2020. We are hoping to provide an outlet for all wilderness medicine lovers and those interested in some healthy competition.

Being virtual, we are no longer constrained by limitations on participants, this year’s event will be open to all interested teams. But don’t worry, but because we are virtual, we will still make you sweat (in a socially distant and responsible way).

Deadline to register your five-person team is September 15. A chance drawing will reveal the competing teams!

Socially Responsible Wilderness Exploration in the Time of COVID

Interested in learning skills and strategies for wilderness exploration during these days of social distancing? With many shelters no longer accessible, how can you pack to better prepare yourself. What are the best ways to be socially responsible while still getting out to explore? Learn all this and more on our wildnerness medicine call.

Guest Speakers:
Paul Auerbach, MD, MS, FACEP, MFAWM
Taylor Haston, MD
Ian Wedmore, MD

Marine Envenomations with Mark Silverberg, MD, FACEP

EMRA's Wilderness Committee hosted a discussion led by Mark Silverberg, MD, FACEP.  

2019 EMRA MedWAR Congratulations

Congratulations to team Stanford EM (SKEMbags) from Stanford Emergeny Medicine. Interested in participating or volunteering for EMRA's MedWAR, learn more here.

EMRA Fellowship Guide

Chapter 30 Wilderness Medicine Fellowship

Wilderness medicine (WM) is the practice of medicine with limited resources in austere environments, or health care provided anywhere in which environmental conditions have inflicted a patient’s physiologic insult. This simple definition belies the complexity of this specialty, as well as the extensive and varied opportunities it provides. Training in wilderness medicine can prepare physicians to treat mountaineers and sherpas on Everest, serve as directors of national parks, oversee search and rescue missions, work in hyperbarics or dive medicine, and provide medical care on expeditions or at remote scientific base camps. A wilderness medicine physician must not only have a knowledge of medical problems that arise in the elements (i.e. acute mountain sickness, hypothermia, lightning strikes, dysbarism, and envenomations, to name a few), but also how to acutely manage these problems outside of the hospital and often with minimal support.