Wilderness Medicine Resources- Beginner's Guide
When I was in first year I wondered where all this information WMS were teaching was coming from, these topics were certainly not taught...
A fluffy topic with some truth in it- Human Factors in medicine
Human factors in medicine sounds fluffy, perhaps it is. But step past the waffle, the jargon and and the reflective nonsense and you get...
SHOCK SEPSIS REVELATIONS-GICS evening the
This weeks GICS event was held in Suttie centre as paramedics, doctors, nurses and fireteams gathered to improve understanding of...
Guyana 2015 - Expedition application process
A team of WMS medics are applying for funding for a scientific expedition to Guyana. Our aim is to find out about the way in which the...
WIlderness -land inhabited by deer
The olld meaning of wilderness has nothing to do with the landscape, it is in fact old English for 'land inhabited by deer'. Even so, we...
Mountaineering in Kyrgyzstan
Alex Reid gave a great talk today on his summertime adventures and expeditioning in general. He began by explaining how he started,...
11th Novemeber GICs BASICs talk
There was an excellent talk tonight from GICS and Dr Colville Laird, the director of education for BASICS Scotland, regarding prehospital...
Student Wilderness Medicine Conference
During the Halloween weekend, the Aberdeen Wilderness Medical Society ventured to Warwick to participate in the 2014 National Student...
Winter skills day
In this event last year we teamed up with Adventure First to get out into the mountains and learn how too handle an ice pick, build a...
What was Wildtrials?
Wildtrials is a national competition for wilderness medic teams which was in 2014 hosted by Aberdeen. Its organisation involved much hard...
