Wilderness Medicine Components
- Prioritizing in the Wild, and Teamwork with the Non-Medically Trained
- Altitude Illnesses and Management
- Cold Injuries (Hypothermia, Non-Freezing, Frostbite, Immersion)
- Heat Injuries (Hyperthermia, Burns, Sun)
- Trauma/Injuries (Prevention and Pain Management in orthopedic injuries including Podiatry, Airway/Dental, Wound Management)
- Search and Rescue (Litters/Carries, Aeromedical Transport, Water)
- Animals/Insects/Plants (Stings, Bites, Poisonings, Ticks, Snakes, Scorpions, Bears)
- Diving and Marine Medicine (survival at sea, sea creatures)
- Equipment/Special Knowledge (Clothing, Gear, Navigation, Knots/Rope, Protection/Prevention, Surviving the Unexpected Night Out, Water Purification)
- Lightening and Avalanche Injury Prevention and Management
- Care on a Plane (and Other Modes of Transportation)
International Medicine Components
- Basics of Travel Medicine (Preparation, Prevention, Immunizations)
- International Public Health and/or Human Rights (United Nations Human Rights Conventions, Professional Organizations, NGOs, WHO, biostatistics, Epidemiology, Diseases in the Forefront)
- Determinates of Health and Adaptability Serving Internationally (How are health resources distributed. How to find out what those resources are. How to use those resources effectively. Finding out the needs of the community. How to get help/communicate)
- Travelers Diarrhea (Common pathogens, Amebiasis, Cholera, Giardia, Parasites, Food/Water Safety (Including Field Water Disinfection)/Purification, Nutrition, Seafood)
- International Infectious Diseases (TB, HIV, Rabies, Parasites, Ebola)
- Fevers in returned travelers (Typhoid, Dengue, Malaria)
- Tick/Mosquito Borne Diseases/Prevention (Malaria, West Nile Virus)
- Procedures (OB, POCUS, surgery, medical equipment, and medication preparation)
- Cross/Multi-Cultural Medicine, Cultural Competency, Medicine for Refugees and Immigrants (Management of PTSD and psychiatric disorders in survivors of torture, rape and other human rights abuses other mental health concerns like using Critical Incident Stress Debriefing)
- Disaster Medicine: systems of preparedness and application
- Female Genital Mutilation care and other female concerns
- Special populations (children, chronic diseases)
Future Potential WIMP Workshops
- Signal to be found
- Escape and survive a hotel fire
- Obtain food and water
- Survive a plane crash
- Build fires with primitive tools
- Rope skills
- Suturing with low resources
- Splints
- Protect yourself during a disaster
- Assemble & Improvise survival kits
- Construct emergency shelters
- How to safely extricate if trapped in an elevator or other spaces
- Travel safely in developing countries and avoid being “ripped off”
- Blister care
- Orientating such as interpreting topographic (contour) maps, creating/following compass bearing, and applying altimeter / GPS information
- POCUS: Trauma, shock, and undifferentiated hypotension; Pneumothorax, pleural effusion, and pericardial effusion; Abdominal and pelvic pathology; Musculoskeletal injuries; Ocular complaints
