UNM Wilderness Medicine Course News

In a little more than 1 week, Darryl Macias MD and I will welcome 20 students for the University of New Mexico's Wilderness International & Improvisational Medicine Course! The first week of the course will take students to the Sandia Mountains for high desert hiking and backcountry and alpine skiing adventures. Each excursion has a heavy didactic component and features scenario-based learning. We will end the week with a visit to the BATCAVE, a computer-driven human mannequin that allows students to practice life-saving techniques in wilderness cardiac and respiratory arrest scenarios. Later, we will visit a backcountry yurt in Taos, the remote desert of north central New Mexico (pictured above), and the canyon country of Utah! Visit this blog for upcoming updates as we track our progress through the month!

Joe Alcock MD
www.mmmedicine.com

New Logo

Mountain & Marine Medicine has a new Logo! Among the many new developments at Mountain & Marine Medicine (M3) is this new image that will soon be emblazoned on new T shirts and other M3 merchandise. Email us for details!
www.mmmedicine.com/contact/

Many props go to our new web designer, Joe Black, for this well-produced emblem that conveys what Mountain and Marine Medicine is all about. Thanks, Joe!

Visit this site frequently for lots of new and exciting changes at M3!!!

Joe Alcock MD

Wilderness Medicine Course pictures can be found at our new Mountain & Marine Medicine Multimedia Page:
http://www.mmmedicine.com/multimedia/
Pictured here is a workshop from our High Altitude and Mountain Medicine Course on Mont Blanc!

Joe Alcock MD

Wilderness Medicine Tip of the Week

This is a New Feature of the Mountain & Marine Medicine Blog:
Each week we will publish a wilderness medicine "pearl", explaining priorities of caring for patients in the out of doors.

Wilderness Medicine Tip of the Week!

Foot fractures are common injuries among climbers, as in this example of a 29 year old male who fell while bouldering.

Calcaneus fractures can be obvious as in the radiograph above, or they can be subtle. The inability to bear weight is an important clue. However, don't forget to finish your exam. Rapid deceleration from a fall from height delivers energy sufficient to break bones elsewhere in the body. This week's tip: 10% of patients with a calcaneus fracture will have a lumbar spine compression fracture. Always protect the victim's neck and back & examine the spine for tenderness!

Check back next week for more! And don't forget to visit
www.MMMedicine.com for great wilderness medicine adventures!

Joe Alcock MD

UNM Wilderness, Improvisational and International Medicine 2008

Hello from Albuquerque to all taking the March class!
We are excited to have you come out at the end of February. Things are on track for another OUTSTANDING course-so get ready to learn, live, and laugh! Although I am honing my survival skills a bit (practicing with a bow and drill for firestarting), I have been "checking" out the snow for you as well. The backcountry skiing and snowshoeing is really good this year, and the weather is mild after several weeks of pretty cold weather. Dress properly...we are all meeting at the Copper open space for orientation at 1pm on Feb 25. You should have received a map. Registration will be done first (we will also do a little "accounting" work). Then, on a nice hike. Give us a jingle at 505-272-5062, or email me at dmacias@salud.unm.edu for questions. If you have anything that you would like to learn other than what is on the WIIM website, let us know. And tell your friends and family not to get too jealous while you embark on this fun educational event...
Cheers, aloha, namaste, and hasta...Darryl (Dario)

High Altitude Medicine

High Altitude Medicine - Rainier July 31, 2008 - August 2 2008

Mountain & Marine Medicine LLC 's Rainier High Altitude Course has been endorsed by the American Academy of Emergency Medicine.

And...the course has been approved for AAFP CME credit for 21.75 prescribed credits. See our site for the full statement:
www.mmmedicine.com

Join us for this exciting event in July 2008!

Hyperbaric Medicine

Our upcoming courses in Honduras and Fiji will include hyperbaric medicine updates. Pictured here are faculty and a participant from our May 2007 Bonaire Dive Medicine course. A huge success!

Dive Medicine Plans for 2008/9

Mountain & Marine Medicine is pleased to announce our most fabulous dive CME expedition ever - to Fiji. This course will take place in spring/early summer of 2009. It is a long time away, we agree. But it will take that much time to assemble the world's best faculty for a dive course in one of the worlds most diverse marine hotspots.

Planning for this course is underway. We will be accepting deposits for this course in early 2008.

If you can't wait that long, come along to Roatan Honduras this May!

Check out:

http://www.mountainandmarinemedicine.com/Roatan2007.html

email Alan Lewis for details about the Honduras course.

drbabar77@gmail.com

Rainier High Altitude Pricing Announced

Mountain & Marine Medicine is pleased to publish very reasonable tuition fees for our upcoming course at Mt Rainier National Park:

Physicians $645

Non-Physicians $595

Students/Trainees $545

Lodging is even cheaper. Rooms rates are as low as $45 per person based on double occupancy at the Nisqually Lodge for course participants. Email us for details!

Now is the time to make plans for your summer CME needs. Email Bob Quinn MD at rquinn@salud.unm.edu for details about the optional climb of Mt. Rainier immediately following the course. Don't miss this special event.

Rainier High Altitude Medicine

Join Mountain and Marine Medicine for a High Altitude Course at Mt. Rainier in Washington State. The course will take place at the Nisqually Lodge, near the Mt. Rainier National Park, and the course will culminate in an optional 3 day guided climb to the summit.

Contact Bob Quinn MD for details about the climb.
rquinn@salud.unm.edu

http://www.mountainandmarinemedicine.com/Rainier.html