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Wilderness Medicine & Survival CME Skills Course & Whitewater Rafting Adventure 2025 is organized by Wilderness Medicine and will be held from Jun 07 - 13, 2025 at Paradise Point Campground, Portland, Indiana, United States of America.

Wilderness & Expedition Medicine Skills Include:
• Hypothermia, frostbite, heat illness, and altitude illness
• Field management of wounds, fractures, dislocations, and sprains including reduction and improvised splinting techniques
• Snake envenomations, wilderness ENT problems
• Backcountry evacuation, helicopter rescue, improvised carries, packaging, and litters
• Lightning, OB/GYN in the wilderness, waterborne illness/disinfection
• Patient assessment in an austere/wilderness setting
• Preparing a medical kit for travel, adventures, and expeditions

Wilderness Survival & Travel Skills Include:
• Fire starting, shelter building, signaling, attaining water
• Ropes & knots for survival and rescue
• Orienteering (map/compass, GPS, etc.) and navigation
• Blister prevention and treatment
• Whitewater rafting skills and cold-water immersion
• Flood and swift-water crossing techniques
• Wilderness rescue, communications, emergencies in airplanes
• Basic mountaineering, ice axe, and snow travel skills (optional, taught by SWS Mountain Guides)

Course Content Includes:
• Altitude Illness
• Hypothermia
• Frostbite and Other Cold Injuries
• Environmental Heat Illness
• Traveler's Diarrhea, Giardia & Other Waterborne Wilderness Infections
• Surviving the Unexpected Night Out
• Lightning Injuries
• Improvised Medical and Trauma Care
• Management of Fractures and Dislocations
• Preparing for Foreign Travel
• Backcountry Medical Kits
• Wilderness Wound Management
• Patient Assessment in Wilderness Settings
• Wilderness Dermatology
• Marine Hazards & Envenomations
• Snake Envenomation

KEY DATES

Registrations Open
17 Nov, 2023
Registrations Open
Registrations Ends
06 Jun, 2025
Registration Ends
Event Start Date
07 Jun, 2025
Event Start Date
Event End Date
13 Jun, 2025
Event End Date

INTERESTED PARTICIPANTS

Registration Name
Category
Registration Closes
Price
WTM Intensive Skills Course Medical professionals Fee
Final fee
Date06 Jun, 2025
US$2,495.00

TARGET AUDIENCE

PhysicianInternal MedicineEmergency MedicineTrauma

SPECIALITIES

Emergency MedicineInternal MedicineDermatologyTrauma

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CONFERENCE VENUE

LocationParadise Point
Highway 96

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