New CME accredited courses for 2012 'Wild Medicine' - a Conservation Medicine Conference 16.5 CME 11 June 2012 to 16 June 2012 Conservation Medicine examining the spread of zoononsis, handling of wild animals, animal tracking from the air, visits to urban health centers, review of tropical diseases on location. All based from the remarkable Naankuse Lodge in Namibia as supported by the Jolie-Pitt Foundation. Suitable for both medics & vets. Diving and Marine Medicine | Australia 20.25 CME 15 July 2012 to 21 July 2012 This is a 6 day medical training course based on Australia's world renowned Great Barrier Reef. Topics covered will include pre-expedition medicals, diving-related illness, marine envenomation, emergency treatments and casevac plans. Practical sessions include boat handling, search and rescue and underwater communications Antarctic Wilderness Medicine Conference, 10 CME 07 December 2012 to 19 December 2012 Join us aboard the National Geographic Explorer, a state-of-the-art expedition ship. the conference will be led Dr Luanne Freer the Medical Director of Yellowstone National Park Old Favorites Expedition & Wilderness Medicine, Keswick & the National Mountain Centre Plas y Brening, 23.75 CME 05 March 2012 to 08 March 2012 | 21 May 2012 to 24 May 2012 The aim of the Expedition & Wilderness Medicine Course is to provide aspiring and experienced expedition doctors, nurses, paramedics and advanced medics with the skills and practical knowledge to become valuable members of an expedition medical team. Polar Medicine | Norway & New Zealand 9.5 CME Norway 05 February 2012 to 11 February 2012 | New Zealand 22 July 2012 to 27 July 2012 The course has been developed for medical professionals, expedition and wilderness medics working in cold and at altitude environments. The Polar Medicine course aims to use the winter evenings to cover the essential expedition medical skills required to care for and treat injuries and illnesses likely to occur in this harsh environment, whilst the days are spent in the field. Mountain Medicine | Nepal 22.5 CME 14 April 2012 to 01 May 2012 Join Dr Freer, Dr Martin ‘Doc Martin’ Rhodes (CMO for the TV production ‘Poles Apart’ and Antarctic Logistics & Expeditions), and Dr John Apps (MO at Union Glacier in Antarctica) for an amazing trek combining adventure and learning as you make your way up to Dr Freer’s seasonal home at the world’s highest medical clinic at Everest Base Camp. Extreme Medicine Conference | London 31.75 CME 15 April to 18 April 2012 The conference will deliver four days of 31 CME-accredited knowledge, insight and innovation in the field of remote medicine and its sub-disciplines: expedition and wilderness, pre-hospital and disaster and relief. Delivering these messages will be speakers who are amongst the global leaders in these specialised fields, who are ideally placed to provide expert knowledge. Desert & Wilderness Medicine | Namibia, 20.5 CME 17 June 2012 to 23 June 2012 Developed for medical professionals and advanced medics working in hot or arid climates, the Desert & Wilderness Medicine medical training course aims to introduce participants to the skills required for working in hot, arid and sub Saharan areas, and to care for and treat injuries and illness likely to occur in this fascinating environment. Jungle Medicine | Costa Rica, 20.5 CME December 2012 - dates to be confirmed The Jungle Medicine tutors will develop the skills of the participants through practical sessions and hands on experience, treating snake bites, identifying tropical diseases, heat related illnesses and managing the health of an expedition in the field. The days will be used to experience and develop jungle survival skills, travelling in the jungle on land or by river, setting up camp, river crossing, cooking and lighting fires, managing casualties and evacuating them when needed: skills without which a successful medical response is extremely difficult. | 
