To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Wild things can and do happen in the wilderness. In a state ...

A few weeks into a medical school project in Bethel, Alaska, Eric Weiss, MD, got a call in the middle of the night from Nunivak Island in the Bering Sea. Eric Weiss, MD The caller, a Native American ...

ROANOKE, Va. (WDBJ) - A program that is one-of-a-kind in this area is designed to help those who experience emergencies in the wilderness. “It’s a subset of medicine and at its simplest, it’s really ...

Medical students went wild Monday at Ohio State’s Outdoor Adventure Center. As part of the Wilderness Medicine Interest Group, medical students gained hands-on experience for treating severe injuries ...

Knowing what first-aid essentials to bring to the backcountry is just as important as knowing what to do in an emergency. Here are the nation’s best wilderness first-aid courses for learning what to ...

Medical schools are charged with teaching future doctors a wide range of skills, but here’s a new one: wilderness training. It’s the latest trend, with schools saying they are responding to student ...

Longleaf Wilderness Medicine based in Sandpoint, Idaho, also offers wilderness first aid and first responder trainings. Longleaf will offer a two-day Wilderness first aid course in Spokane Oct. 1 ...

Out in the wilderness, medical professionals won’t have the same equipment and resources as a hospital or clinic. But the goal is the same: save their patients. Celebrating its 40th anniversary ...