Polar Medicine Training Course – sign up discount

Sign up Discount available for limited period For a limited time only Expedition and Wilderness Medicine are offering £100 of our legendary Polar Medicine Course from the 7th to the 13th of February 2010 to be held in Alta, northern Norway.  Contact Rosi for more details. ‘Probably one of the best courses that you will [...]

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. [...]

Expedition and Wilderness Medicine is chosen to provide backstop support for Pen Hadows latest expedition to the pole

Pen Hadows latest expedition supported by HRH Prince of Wales is to be supported by the medical resources of Expedition and Wilderness Medicine.   The Catlin Arctic Survey Expedition is an international collaboration between polar explorers and some of the world’s foremost scientific bodies. It seeks to resolve one of the most important environmental questions [...]

Extra Polar Medicine course due to demand

Due to the overwhelming success of our Polar Medicine Course in 2009 we have now added some new dates.  The dates for the NEW polar course are 22-28 February 2009, the course is being run by Dr Martin Rhodes and Dr Lesley Thomson. The Polar Medicine Course is ideal for those working in polar and [...]

Polar Medicine looks northwards

Our annual, and highly acclaimed Polar Medicine Training Course is due to head to northern Norway in the middle of February – if demand is as high as it has been in previous years then we suggest that you book your place soon.  Feedback from this years course included superlatives such as ‘best’ and ‘unmissable’ [...]

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 freezing [...]