Sarah Outen – makes it with a little help from EWM!! The first Britian to row in the India Ocean and the first female ever!

Sarah Outen in a breathtaking achievement and with a little help in terms of support and training from Expedition and Wilderness Medicine has successfully become the first Britian and the first woman ever to row across the Indian Ocean and the youngest woman to solo any ocean- massive congratulations to her from us
A very exciting, [...]

Sir Chris Bonnington speaks at Expedition and Wilderness Course

We are delighted to announce that Sir Chris Bonington will be delivering the Rupert Bennett Memorial lecture.
Our next Expedition and Wilderness Medicine training courses are in March and May 2010 and we are very excited to have booked the prestigious Plas y Brenin National Mountain Centre, North Wales for the course in May.

EWM supported Indian Ocean rower Sarah Outen’s progress so far

Expedition and Wilderness Medicine has been supporting Sarah Outen’s attempt to row across the Indian Ocean by providing specialist medical training, advice and support. Sarah is now well into her challenge and you can follow her incredible progress via her website – Sarah Outen’s Indian Ocean rowing expedition.

Expedition and Wilderness Medicine Director visits South Georgia

In March of this year Mark Hannaford was lucky enough to get a fantastic photographic project down to South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands with the Scott Polar Research Institute (http://www.spri.cam.ac.uk ) and the South Georgia Heritage Trust (http://www.sght.org ).
Mark tells us about this project, SPRI and the amazing history behind these islands. “Prior [...]

Jungle Medicine course – Costa Rica

Course director Dr Sean Hudson writing about the Jungle Medicine Training Course in Costa Rica
Back in Costa Rica again and the jungle didn’t fail to provide the perfect environment for the course. As one would expect, it was hot, wet and full of interesting fauna and flora. I never fail to be impressed by [...]

Expedition Medicine launches a new course on Dartmoor

Our highly rated Expedition and Wilderness Medicine Training Course is heading south.
We are really excited about our new course – following the same schedule as our Lakeland course and with many of the same inspirational faculty we have linked up with Dartmoor’s premier training faculty, the Heatree Centre located near Newton Abbot to provide an [...]

A participant’s write up – Polar Medicine Training Course February 2008

The setting for this year’s polar medicine training course was Alta, a small settlement, 72 degrees north and well within the arctic circle. A place with a deserted high street where you would be lucky to see one other passer by every 15 minutes, easily explained by a temperature at least ten degrees below [...]

Expedition Medicine Course – Lake District

Casualty EvacuationOriginally uploaded by polarisandy

The Expedition Medicine course in Lake District works on skills neccesary for providing remote medical care.
Find out more about the Expedition Medicine training course is Keswick here
Image supplied by Dr Andy McAlea
Flick| Expeditions & Expedition Medicine Photo group

Expedition & Wilderness Medicine | Flickr Group

Expedition Medicine
Originally uploaded by Mark Hannaford

We have set up a flickr group for Expeditions and Expedition Medicine- for those of you that don’t know what this is its an on-line photo gallery where you can upload your images to share with friends and stuff like that.
What we have done is invite upload our own images [...]