Expedition and Wilderness Medicine Course
Take your training into the field and open up a whole new world of travel and opportunity.
This four-day Expedition & Wilderness Medicine course in Corfe, UK equips healthcare professionals with the essential skills required to operate safely and effectively in remote and resource-limited environments.
Set within an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, the course combines focused teaching, practical workshops, and immersive expedition-style scenarios designed to develop clinical decision-making, leadership, and communication under pressure.
You’ll move beyond classroom-based learning and into realistic outdoor environments, building confidence in risk assessment, casualty management, and team-based medical care.
The skills developed during this course are directly transferable across hospital, pre-hospital, humanitarian, and expedition settings.
Expedition and Wilderness Medicine Course
Course Content
Foundations of Expedition & Wilderness Medicine
You’ll begin by covering the core principles that underpin safe medical practice in remote environments. This includes expedition planning, human factors, crew resource management, and structured clinical decision-making when resources, time, and evacuation options are limited. Teaching focuses on adapting clinical skills to expedition and wilderness contexts.
Trauma & Acute Care in Remote Settings
This section focuses on managing trauma and acute medical problems when access to definitive care is delayed. Through hands-on workshops and practical scenarios, you’ll practise primary survey, spinal immobilisation, fracture management, catastrophic bleeding control, analgesia, and casualty movement using limited equipment.
Environmental & Expedition Medicine
You’ll explore common medical challenges encountered during expeditions, including cold, heat, altitude, tropical illness, water safety, wound care, public health considerations, and expedition medical kit management. Sessions combine short lectures with practical exercises and case-based discussion.
Search, Rescue & Operational Decision-Making
The course culminates in a real-time search and rescue scenario, bringing together clinical skills, leadership, communication, and teamwork. You’ll apply your learning to locate, treat, and evacuate a simulated casualty, followed by structured debrief and reflection.
Your Teaching Faculty
Burjor Langdana
Daniel Grace
Ella du Breuil
Kendal Andreason
Tamara Gonzalez Benitez
Corfe, UK
What's Included?
Field-Based Training & Practical Workshops
Teaching is delivered through hands-on workshops, group activities, and realistic outdoor scenarios designed to reflect the challenges of expedition medicine.
Expert Faculty & Instruction
You’ll be taught by experienced medical professionals with backgrounds in expedition, wilderness, and pre-hospital care, supported by instructors with extensive field experience.
Accommodation, Meals & Course Support
Your course fee includes accommodation and meals from the start of the course through to after lunch on the final day, allowing you to focus fully on learning and participation.
Please note that travel costs, travel insurance, personal equipment and food & drink from the bar is not included in your course fee.
CPD & Course Certification
This course has been awarded 24 CPD hours by RCSEd. This course has been approved for Fellowship in the Academy of Wilderness Medicine (FAWM) credits through the Wilderness Medical Society. Actual credits awarded depend on personal credit needs and history.
On completion, you’ll receive a certificate of attendance recognising your training in expedition and wilderness medicine.
What past attendees say
“Faculty were wonderful. Engaging, approachable and inspiring. ”
“I really enjoyed the course! Really enjoyed meeting everyone and the energy! ”
“Thank you so much! It was brilliant. ”
“All staff are absolutely amazing. ”
Case Studies
This course is designed for healthcare professionals and students who want to apply their clinical skills in expedition and wilderness settings. It’s particularly suited to those interested in expedition, adventure, humanitarian, or remote medicine. The course focuses on clinical decision-making, teamwork, and operating safely in challenging outdoor environments.
