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EML UK Course
| Location: | United Kingdom |
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| Categories: | Mountain, Leisure, Individual, Outdoors, Extreme |
| When: | Sep 12, 2006 to Sep 15, 2006 |
| Family: | Yes |
| Cost: | £595 plus VAT |
Medicine - Expedition - Team, 'this is the reality of working in remote locations and the expedition medicine course reflects this superbly'. Dr Sean Hudson.
Dates
12th - 15th September 2006 - BOOKINGS NOW BEING TAKEN
20th - 23rd March 2007 - BOOKINGS NOW BEING TAKEN
The aim of the Expedition Medicine course is to provide doctors, nurses paramedics and advanced medics with no particular outdoors experience with the skills and practical knowledge to become valuable members of an expedition team. The EML course will be intensive and thorough, drawing on the extensive skills base within the faculty.
The courses are run over a 4-day period and are based in the stunning Barrow House Youth Hostel, Keswick, a superb 200 year old mansion located on the edge of Derwentwater in the heart of the English Lake District. Should you wish to stay longer there is a wide range of holiday accommodation available locally and at Barrow House YHA, once you are confirmed on the course please contact the hostel direct on 017687 77246. Visit the Expedition Medicine Teaching Centre.
There will be both a lecture and outdoors education program and the course members will be pushed both mentally and physically. The Expedition Medicine faculty aims to present the valuable skills in a logical and progressive fashion, culminating in a day of moulage and subsequent feedback. To accompany the course a comprehensive manual is provided free of charge as is membership of the RemoteMed Association.
The idea of establishing the Expedition Medicine Course came about as a result of a fireside conversation between a group of expedition leaders and medics resting after a days trekking in the Namib Desert in Namibia and from there EML was born. It has taken us a while to put together what we consider to be one of the most impressively experienced, motivated and good humoured training teams available in the UK, but we think the efforts was worth it.
The EML team has been selected not only for their academic qualifications but also for their expedition experience, and for their ability to put across the passion and enthusiasm with which they regard the subject- they probably represent one of the most select teams of expedition experienced teachers in the UK and their expedition experience ranges from Antarctica to Namibia, from China to Chile, rather than stand still through that experience continues to grow and we lucky to be able to gather then all in one place at the same time.
New for 2005, Dr Mike Stroud of Polar fame has kindly agreed to become our guest speaker. Previous to this our speakers have included Simon Yates, John Howarth from Merlin International and Everest summiteer Stephen Venables.
Support of volunteer rescue groups. A portion of your course is donated to local mountain rescue groups.
Further reading and weblinks. We maintain an extensive list of expedition medicine reference materials and relevant websites in the resources section.
