Wilderness Medicine

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The Wilderness Medicine Interest Group brings together emergency physicians to address the challenges of medicine in wilderness and austere environments. It fosters research, education, and collaboration on topics like outdoor injuries and environmental emergencies, enhancing skills for resource-limited settings.

Wilderness Medicine Goals for 2024-2025 include:

Develop and disseminate academic wilderness medicine educational and research content to the SAEM community through a variety of forums.
Promote community academic engagement through regular virtual events and social media posts.
Continue to work towards SAEM academy status.

Wilderness Medicine Professionals

This initiative by the Wilderness Medicine Interest Group aims to support partnerships and collaboration between flourishing institutions and organizations in the field to help streamline and disseminate academic wilderness medicine educational and research opportunities.

Join Our Interest Group Today!

SAEM members wanting to explore wilderness medicine are encouraged to join our interest group! Log into SAEM.org, click "My Participation" in the upper navigation bar, and click the "Update Academies or Interest Groups" button to join now.