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What journals do read to stay up-to-date in the wilderness and expedition medicine? We can recommend reading the following peer-reviewed journals. Wilderness & Environmental Medicine Wilderness & Environmental Medicine (WEM), the official journal of the Wilderness Medical Society, is devoted to original scientific and technical contributions on the practice of medicine defined by isolation, extreme natural […]

The first edition of the Dive & Marine Life Support course (DMLS) took place in September. The participants travelled to Bonaire for a week filled with dive, marine, emergency and wilderness medicine. Besides lectures and workshops, there was enough time for diving. Further, the participants spend a day on a sailing yacht and they visited […]

The AWLS course took place again last week. The days were filled with theory and practical sessions led by instructors Isla, Jacco, Bart, Anne, Maybritt, Wouter and Lauke. The course ended with an exam at the Soester Duinen. Besides participants, two new interns joined us: Moniek and Lottie, welcome to the Outdoor Medicine team! Have you […]

The fourth edition of the Mountain Medicine course has finished. We descended from Jamtalhütte last Saturday. 24 participants have been working on their alpine and medical skills during the week. The participants summited 3 peaks: the Pfannknecht (2208 m), Hintere Jamspitze (3156 m) and the Haagspitze (3029 m) under guidance of our guides Gabi, Vitus, […]