Expedition Medicine in Practice Course
Dinaric Alps, Bosnia
30 August 2025 09:00 - 05 September 2025 14:00GBP £1,249.00
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Take Your Expedition Medicine Skills to New Heights
Discover your expedition medicine capabilities in the stunning Dinaric Alps of Bosnia. This intensive (6.5-day) course develops the key challenges from our core Expedition & Wilderness Medicine syllabus into an advanced program of practical content and micro-adventure challenges.
Put your skills to the test in dynamic, simulated expedition scenarios while being surrounded by breathtaking 1800m+ peaks. Based at the rustic Mountain Lodge Vrela in the traditional mountain village of Tušila, you’ll plan adventures, support your peers, and tackle various medical scenarios in a truly immersive environment. For the adventurous, there’s even the option to bivvy on top of a mountain at almost 2,000m (weather permitting).
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What to Expect
The Dinaric Alps provide the perfect training ground for healthcare professionals, expedition leaders and wilderness responders wanting to enhance their expedition medicine skills.
Your Base
Nestled in the Bosnian mountain village of Tušila, Mountain Lodge Vrela is your rustic mountain base, staring up at multiple 1800m+ peaks. This authentic setting creates an immersive environment where you’ll live and breathe expedition medicine.
Learning Structure
- Morning briefings to plan your daily challenges
- Practical sessions ranging from hut-based training to full-day mountain expeditions
- Evening debriefs to consolidate learning and prepare for the next day
- Regular feedback sessions with our expert faculty
Field Experience
Through a series of carefully designed scenarios and challenges, you’ll:
- Lead teams through medical emergencies in remote settings
- Practice improvised rescue techniques in authentic terrain
- Develop critical decision-making skills under varying conditions
- Experience the realities of providing medical care with limited resources
You’ll finish each day having pushed your boundaries and developed new capabilities, ready to take on your next expedition medicine challenge.
Course Content
Our expert faculty will guide you through comprehensive practical and theoretical training in:
Medical Skills
- Incident management and CRM
- Scene and patient assessment
- Airway & breathing in wilderness trauma
- Catastrophic bleeding management
- Wilderness wound management and burns
- Wilderness wound closure
- Expedition foot care
- Anaphylaxis management
Environmental Medicine
- Heat illness and hydration management
- Water procurement techniques
- Hypothermia treatment and patient warming
- Environmental risk assessment
Expedition Skills
- Advanced expedition planning
- Risk assessment and mitigation
- Expedition leadership
- Basic rope skills
- Improvised rescue techniques
- Working with young people
- Mental health in remote environments
Professional Development
- Working in expedition medicine
- Governance for expedition medics
- Medical emergencies on expeditions
Key Facts
Is this course right for you?
This course is perfect for healthcare professionals and students interested in developing their expedition medicine skillset with a focus on practical application through simulation. We also welcome those with an expedition background who have existing wilderness or advanced first aid training and are eager to develop their skills further.
CPD: The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh have awarded this course 28.5 CPD hours.
What’s included:
- Expert instruction and mentoring
- Mountain lodge accommodation
- All meals during your stay
- Downloadable course resources
- Group transfers from/to Sarajevo
What’s not included:
- Travel costs
- Travel insurance
- Personal equipment
- Drinks from the bar
Safety and Equipment
The comprehensive curriculum and field scenarios are carefully designed to push your limits while mitigating risks.
We take every precaution to keep participants safe by:
- Rigorous gear checks before all expedition days
- Mandatory evacuation insurance policies
- Close coordination with local emergency responders
Kit List
As a minimum, we recommend you bring:
- Waterproof jacket and trousers
- Base layers for top and bottom half check out our blog post to help you find the perfect base layer!
- Mid layers for top (and bottom half if you’re a ‘cold’ person)
- Down or synthetic insulating jacket
- Casual & comfortable clothing
- Hut slippers/sliders/crocs
- Hat, gloves, socks
- Walking boots – approach or light hiking boots are ideal
- Trail shoes
- Sunglasses
- A spare set of outdoor clothing (in case you get wet!)
- 35-45 litre pack
- Water bottle
- Compass (if you have one)
- Whistle
- Personal toiletries, including a towel
- Ear plugs and eye mask
- Head torch
- Snacks
- Personal First Aid Kit
Optional Additional Kit
- Bivvy Bag
- Sleeping bag to keep you cosy down to -5c or lower
- Roll mat or Thermarest
- Walking poles
You will be staying in a charming but rustic mountain hut in an isolated village. We recommend planning your kit and luggage accordingly, feel free to bring additional kit, clothing, down duvets and snacks with you. Some days, you will stay close to the hut, other days you will be out for 8+ hours. Please check the weather before travelling and adjust your kit list as required. There are no drying rooms at the hut, we recommend packing additional clothing if the weather looks poor.
Travel Information
A group transfer will be available from Sarajevo airport on the morning of Saturday 30th August. Return transfers are available:
- Friday 5th September (late-PM)
- Saturday 6th September (early-AM)
Self-drive options are available with car rental at Sarajevo airport.
Please note that limited parking is available at the venue.
Talk To Our Team
If you wish to learn more or have any additional questions, we invite you to book a 30-minute discovery call with our team.
→ Click here to book a discovery call.
The call will be with the team who organise our courses and work closely with our medical teaching faculty. They’re best placed to explain what our attendees really get out of attending a course with us.
You can choose between a video or voice call — whatever suits you best.
Register for a time that works for you, and we look forward to speaking with you soon.
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