Wilderness Medical Society
2150 E 1300 S, Suite 500
Salt Lake City, UT 84106
(801) 990-2988
(801) 990-2987 (FAX)
Send us an email!
What's New
6/1/09
Official
2010 WMS Elective in Wilderness
Medicine applications are now being accepted. Space is
only available to 28 students and only the first 100 applications
recieve consideration. More information and a dowloadable
application are available here.
4/11/09
SIG COMMITTEE
MEMBERS NEEDED
Interested in joining/leading one of the WMS
Student Committees?
- Membership Committee
- SIG Committee Committee
- Electives Committee
- Newsletter Committee
If so, email the following
information to the WMS
Student Representative:
Name, Medical School, Year
Experience in Wilderness Medicine
Current involvement with SIG or other wilderness medicine group
Brief description of why you would like this position
SNOWMASS CONFERENCE
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED
Volunteers are needed for the annual
conference in Snowmass (July 24-29). Volunteers will do a variety
of jobs including posting signs, setting up computers, picking up
speakers from the airport, etc. Volunteers will get free registration
to the conference. If you are interested, please e-mail
wmsstudentrep@gmail.com
SNOWMASS CONFERENCE STUDENT LODGING
I will be reserving a room for students to share during the conference.
The room will be divided by the number of students who stay (the more
students, the cheaper it will be). If you are interested in sharing in
student lodging, please e-mail wmsstudentrep@gmail.com
2/5/2009
Congratulations to the new WMS Associate Student Representative!
Cathy Chamberlin is in her second year of medical school at the University of New England in Biddeford, ME and is the president of their wilderness medicine club.
She has been a wilderness EMT since 1996 and has worked for numerous non-profit and private outdoor organizations since 1995. During her time with Boulder Outdoor Survival School (1996 - 2001), Cathy also taught primitive and desert survival skills. She began working for Outward Bound Colorado in 2001 where she is a course director and instructor in mountaineering, rock climbing and canyoneering.
Cathy has been actively involved in wilderness medicine since 1996 with several search and rescue teams across the country, has worked internationally at a health clinic in a remote village in western Kenya, and teaches wilderness EMT and wilderness first responder courses for the Wilderness Medicine Institute.
Later this spring she will take over as the WMS Student Representative when Stephanie Lareau leaves for residency.
1/26/2009
Wilderness Medicine Elective Updates:
We are pleased to
offer our semi-annual 2-week Wilderness Medicine Elective for the 2009
spring semester (4/20 to 5/3). Both 3rd & 4th year medical
students are eligible. We offer a state of the art course full of
hands-on medical training that has had superlative reviews from
students.
Week 1 in New York City will consist of
lectures, workshops, trips to the NY Botanical Garden (Botanical
Medicinals) and the Bronx Zoo (Reptile House), and a Disaster Medicine
overview. Week 2 will take place in the backcountry of Southern
Utah/Northern Arizona involving desert, swift water, and canyon
terrain.
Dr. Jay Lemery (Emergency Medicine) is the course director and students should email him directly with any questions: lemery@med.cornell.edu.
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University of Nevada
SURVIVOR: LAS VEGAS -- Wilderness Medicine Experience
We are holding our
inaugural Wilderness Course this spring (3/23-4/4) and there is still
room for some students. Space is limited, so the sooner you sign
up, the better chance you have of reserving a spot. To learn
more about the course, visit our website.
Thank you and we look forward to a great
experience,
Mitzi, Tom and Vicki
Thomas Matz, MD
Medical Student Director
Department of Emergency Medicine
University Medical Center of Southern Nevada
1/25/2009
2nd Annual Southeast Student Wilderness Medicine Conference- March 28-29th, 2009 @ UNC School of Medicine at Chapel Hill Facebook Event
(click above for more information)
1/9/2009
Additional wilderness medicine electives announced for students and residents alike! Check out Madigan Army Medical Center (new in 2009!), the University of Nevada and the University of Virginia on the electives page...
12/20/2008
Happy Holidays from the
WMS! Hopefully we're all getting a much needed break away from
classes and rotations. 
Congratulations to those of you who
participated in the military match this past week!
Newsletter: A new Cliff Notes (quarterly student newsletter) has been posted to the website. The wilderness medicine section in ACEP released its own quarterly newsletter this month which can be viewed here.
Student leadership: For those of you who applied for the position of Associate Student Representative, the results will be announced soon! Stay tuned for further leadership opportunities on one of our Committees as several of the chairs will be graduating this year.
SIG of the Quarter: LMU- Debusk College of Osteopathic Medicine! Go to the SIG Resources page for more information. (Shae and Gina with their dog, Merckx, right)
Facebook: Our group is up to 253 members! Keep spreading the word. There is a new event page for the two main wilderness medicine conferences this winter (Big Sky, MT and Park City, UT). If you plan on attending, drop a note on the event wall so we can plan some student/resident activities.
Electives: A new elective opportunity was just added by Wilderness Medical Associates- Canada. Additionally, the UMASS and WMS electives are full but there are still spots available for courses through NOLS/HAEMR, Utah, and Cornell... all in April. The ever-popular Big Sky rotation is full for this year and next, but Dr. Jeff Daniel's is currently accepting applications for the 2010-2011 academic year. See the WM Electives page for more information.
Fellowships: Stanford and the University of Utah have traditionally offered the only fellowships available in wilderness medicine. As of this past year, however, fellowship opportunities have doubled. Check out these press releases from Harvard and UCSF Fresno for further details. Information on all fellowship programs can be found on the elective page towards the bottom.
New WMS website: The WMS recently updated the layout of their website (see picture below). There is also a new blog which isn't very active at the moment but has great potential. The "educational materials" and "speakers bureau" tabs should come online soon.
If you browse our own website you'll see that it has been updated as well (I didn't want to study for Step 2 anyways)
Please check out the list of current SIGs on the SIG Resources page. If your school's information is out of date, or missing altogether, please let us know. And as always, if you have any stories/pictures you would like to see on the website, or any ideas in general, please send them our way. Thanks.
HAPPY HOLIDAYS!
Is your SIG
registered with the WMS? Check out SIG
resources for an updated list of all current SIGs!
Last updated 6/25/09