MMC WILDERNESS MEDICINE
Learn in our Emergency Department, our mountains, and our rivers!
MMC WILDERNESS MEDICINE
Learn in our Emergency Department, our mountains, and our rivers!
Mountain evolution
What makes us unique
The Oldest Wilderness Elective in the Country
Our elective started at University of Massachusetts Medical School more than 30 years ago! The elective originated as a three week endeavor based in Utah. Over the years it has migrated from the department of family medicine to emergency medicine. The faculty changed from UMass to MMC. Then it moved to Tufts/MMC. Finally, in 2022, we moved it to Maine!
Physician Faculty
Many organizations teach WFR, WEMT, and WALS courses and even offer these to medical students. And these are great options, rest assured that, if you do one,you will receive great training. But few of them are truly focused on the physician level of medical knowledge. From physiology to research to medication options, future physicians will be curious to learn a deeper level of detail than can be offered at most of these courses. Ours is the only course taught entirely by physicians with both resident AND attending level faculty present at all portions. Come learn from experts with experience in the field and the hospital.
We Teach Outdoors
The cornerstone of our wilderness educational theory is that in order to understand wilderness medicine you must be comfortable living and operating in the wilderness. For this reason we have focused on teaching as much as possible in the wilderness. No amount of lectures or practical teaching in the classroom can mimic the experience and learning that occurs trailside or river side. We use a mix of didactics, hands on sessions, and scenarios which all occur in the woods of Maine. The self challenge that occurs with us leads to learning that is rarely replicated in medicine. Come see what we mean!