Learning in the wild.
WMS is all about discovering outdoors, and there are certain skills that we hope we can help members to attain. These are some of the skills and topics we have an interest in. Some of these will be expanded to include more specific learning outcomes (for example in the skills for Junior Doctors series). Others will be integral to events which use a wider skills set, for example scenario days help the development of multiple skills.
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Generic Skills training
Decision making under pressure
Communication
Team work
Time management
Planning and management
Education
Outdoor Skills
Navigation
Survival skills –Shelter, Food and water, Finding help
Dealing with Wildlife
Dealing with each wilderness environment
Altitude
Heat/desert
Jungle
Hills
Cold- the poles
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Adventure training
Climbing
Walking
Watersports
Opportunities and Awareness
Pre-hospital GP (BASICS)
Getting outdoors
Opportunities in Wilderness Medicine
Careers in Military Medicine
Mountain Rescue
MSF
Pre-hospital competencies
Danger- Extrication and rescues in difficult situations
Response-GCS
c (c spine stabilisation) Airways
Breathing
Circulation (catastrophic haemorrhage is prioritised over airways)
Disability
Exposure –hypothermia hyperthermia and dehydration
Muskuloskeletal -fractures and soft tissue injuries
Cardiovascular emergencies in a prehospital setting
Neurology head injuries and eye trauma
Bandaging
Poisoning
Burns
Majors and Minors-Mass casualty and triage
In the hospital
Trauma- The Secondary Survey
(Looking for the BIG 5)
Infective-tropical disease
Outside the box-collaboration with other groups
Wildlife and humans
Hostage scenarios
Driving off road