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EXTREME MEDICINE 2014- Taking Medicine to the Extremes
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The 2013 Conference hosted at Harvard Medical School received rave reviews from 'best medical conference we have ever been to'... to ...'simply amazing' and in 2014 we are back on home turf in London. A pre- conference trauma workshop will be running on the weekend before run in cooperation with the justifably world famous London Air Ambulance Service.
The conference speakers included many of the very best speakers from around the world (including Dr Gordon Giesbrecht, Dr Kobi Peleg and Professor Chris Imray, who are the world experts in many remote extreme medicine fields including expedition and wilderness, pre-hospital, disaster and relief medicine.
The specialist conference was developed specifically with medical professionals in mind, bringing together the learnings from various areas of remote medicine, and attracted delegates from around the world. 70% of the delegates were doctors with the rest of the audience being other medical specialists such as nurses, paramedics and 'aspiring' extreme medicine university students.
“This conference was a fantastic opportunity for medics to gain insight and knowledge from leading professionals in extreme medicine.” Dr Amy Hughes, Medical Director, Expedition & Wilderness Medicine
Each day of the conference focuses on different aspects of Extreme Medicine. The first day covers Expedition & Wilderness; the second day was built around Pre-Hospital Medicine with days 3 and 4 covering Disaster Medicine and Extreme Medicine respectively
With regards to the prevoius London conference. Presentations varied from Dr Kevin Fong, television presenter and co-director of the Centre for Aviation Space and Extreme Environment Medicine (UCL) talking about space medicine to Jon Snow discussing what it is like to be a journalist in extreme and hostile environments, the delegates found the 4 days very enjoyable as well as a superb networking opportunity with 90% *of the 400 delegates saying they would come to the next conference.
Extreme Medicine Programme Overview:The International World Extreme Medicine Conference and EXPO 2014 will host some of the very best speakers from around the world, who are amongst the leading figures in remote extreme medicine fields including: expedition and wilderness, pre-hospital, disaster, and relief medicine. Alongside the lecture daily series will be exhibitions from focused industry leaders, showcasing products and services to meet your extreme medicine needs.
**'This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education through the joint sponsorship of the Wilderness Medical Society and Expedition Medicine. The Wilderness Medical Society is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
The Wilderness Medical Society designates this educational activity for a maximum of 31.75 (to be confirmed) AMA PRA Category 1 Credits TM. Each physician should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.'
