Outdoor Medicine and 360 Travels & Expeditions offer a new course. After a 3-day theory course in the Netherlands and 7 days of theory and practice in the Écrins you are a certified Wilderness First Responder (First Aid) and you will have increased your knowledge on winter touring (e.g. tour planning, avalanche, group dynamics, building […]

We have organized the third edition of the Mountain Medicine course this year. A photo report can be found in the gallery. Excited? Follow our website, facebook and newsletter so you do not miss the opening of the registration for Mountain Medicine ’17.

Yapili is a web based platform that connects patients with local or international doctors in areas with a shortage of health workers. The platform is a safe, cloud based solution where consults can be requested by the local end user which can be followed up by doctors locally and even all over the world. Acces […]

With improvements of medical care, increasing numbers of people with underlying medical conditions are travelling to high altitude. These trips can lead to risks, including developing acute altitude illnesses, as well as the risk of infection associated with travel. Andrew Luks wrote a review focussing on transplant recipients travelling to high altitude. Aim of the […]

Recently, Maybritt Kuypers, one of the founders of Outdoor Medicine,  started a new job as “European Space Agency Flight Surgeon” in other words: Medical Doctor for the European Astronauts at the European Astronaut Centre in Cologne, Germany. We asked her to give us a general idea of what this job entails: “Before the spaceflight, the […]