- Posted by admin in Library, Outbreaks and Updates, Travel, Travel Health, Tropical Medicine, Website Info, Wilderness, expedition medicine news, expedition medicine rounds |
- October 21st, 2008 |
After some computer problems, I am very excited to be back on the blog, again! The two people that read this can stop worrying about me! I am trying something new with this post, by gathering some interesting and Expedition Medicine related news items. A bit less detailed info, but more topics to discuss! Here
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Expedition Medicine Web Rounds
- Posted by admin in Travel, Travel Health, Website Info, starting a travel medicine clinic, travel clinics of america, travel medicine |
- October 7th, 2008 |
I recently attended the AAFP Scientific Assembly in San Diego, where I met the team at Travel Clinics of America. This is a new organization that assists physicians with starting or incorporating travel medicine consultations in their existing practices. This service/organization is preparing for it’s website release in the early part of 2009 but is currently
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Travel Clinics of America
- Posted by admin in Travel, Travel Health, car crashes international travel, global-health, international road safety |
- October 6th, 2008 |
When I think of an adventure trip, such as a week climbing, kayaking or mountain biking, I try to be prepared for all the problems that I might encounter. A careful pre-check of my gear, a first aid kit and plan of what to do if something bad happens are all ways I decrease my
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Road Accidents and Travel
- Posted by admin in Outbreaks and Updates, Travel, Travel Health, hepatitis A, hepatitis outbreak prague |
- October 2nd, 2008 |
Pro-Med Mail has an interesting report about the current Hepatitis A outbreak in Prague, Czech Republic. The report states that over 600 cases of Hep
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Hepatitis A in Prague
- Posted by admin in Education/Conference, Travel, Wilderness, expedmed conference, kilimanjaro, wilderness cme |
- September 26th, 2008 |
The crew over at www.ExpedMed.com have been busy lately! All the excitement of the Expedition Medicine conference has barely died down, for me, and they have just finished a re-design of their website and added some new CME travel! They are scheduling a trip that offers CME and an opportunity to climb Kilimanjaro. Their faculty for
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ExpedMed goes to Kilimanjaro and San Diego
- Posted by admin in Tetanus, Travel, Travel Health, Tropical Medicine, Wilderness, backcountry vaccines, wilderness tetanus, wilderness vaccines, wound care wilderness |
- September 23rd, 2008 |
How many times have you been outdoors and had a cut, scrape or poke? This a common event and inherent to adventuring in the bush.
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Tetanus, wounds and the wilderness
- Posted by admin in FAWM, Travel, Wilderness, fellow academy of wilderness medicine, wilderness medical society, wilderness medicine education, wms |
- September 16th, 2008 |
For those who are interested in Wilderness Medicine, membership in the Wilderness Medical Society should be strongly considered. Not only do they host fantastic conferences, publish several regular journals (including Wilderness and Environmental Medicine) but they also have the Academy of Wilderness Medicine. Through the Academy of Wilderness Medicine, a student of wilderness medicine can earn
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The Wilderness Medical Society and FAWM credit
- Posted by admin in Travel, Wilderness, ankle injuries in the backcountry, common hiking injuries, sprained ankle, wilderness ankle injury |
- September 11th, 2008 |
Most people wouldn’t be surprised that the ankle injuries are some of the more common things that ruin a good hiking trip. Drs. Townes and Hung wrote a very interesting article about Rescue teams in Yosemite Park and the injuries they deployed to
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Ankle Injuries in the Backcountry
- Posted by admin in Rants, Travel, Travel Health, Tropical Medicine, Wilderness, expedition faculty, expedition medicine conference |
- September 8th, 2008 |
I was lucky enough to attend the ExpedMed 2008 conference on Expedition Medicine, in Washington, DC. I found this to be one of the coolest experiences I could ever imagine
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2008 Expedition Medicine Conference (part 1)
- Posted by admin in Library, Travel, Website Info, Wilderness, on-line wilderness medicine classes, wilderness medicine distance learning |
- September 8th, 2008 |
Western Carolina University has begun to offer on-line classes in wilderness medicine. These classes are part of a degree track for those working on a Bachelor’s degree in pre-hospital medicine
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Wilderness Med Classes On-line
