Med Schools
Wilderness Medicine is popular in medical school communities, and many student groups hold their own Wilderness Medicine Conferences. One of the earliest examples is the Carolina Wilderness Medicine Seminar, organized at UNC-Chapel Hill by medical students Seth C. Hawkins and Jenny Graham in March 1998 and repeated in 2000. More recent examples include the Mid-Atlantic Student Wilderness Conference and the Appalachian Center for Wilderness Medicine's ACWM Southeast Student Wilderness Medicine Conference. The ACWM conference ran from 2008-2012 and was notable in that it rotated to a new host medical school in the American southern Appalachians every year. All these conferences commonly feature prominent members of the wilderness medicine community as guest speakers and workshop leaders. Additionally, many top tier emergency physicians and surgeons are active in the field.
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