Medicine at the Edge | First Contact, Clinical Adaptation & Human Factors in Remote Practice
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About this webinar
What changes when you step away from the hospital and into a truly remote clinical environment?
In this World Extreme Medicine webinar, Eoin Walker is joined by emergency medicine specialist Matt and paramedic Josh to explore the realities of delivering healthcare in remote settings, drawing on their experiences providing medical support during the TV Show ‘Survivor’.
Together they discuss how clinicians adapt when diagnostic tools are limited, evacuation is complex, and every decision is shaped by the environment around them.
Topics covered include:
- Transitioning from hospital-based practice to remote medicine
- Clinical decision making with limited diagnostics
- Human factors and cognitive bias in remote healthcare
- Teamwork, communication and multidisciplinary collaboration
- Managing clinical risk when evacuation isn’t straightforward
- Primary care challenges in expedition and remote settings
- The value of time, observation and continuity of care
- Lessons that translate back into everyday clinical practice
Whether you’re interested in expedition medicine, wilderness medicine, humanitarian response, event medicine or simply improving your clinical decision making, this discussion offers valuable insights into the realities of healthcare beyond the hospital walls.
Intended Learning Outcomes
By the end of this webinar, participants should be able to:
- Describe how clinical decision making adapts when working in remote environments with limited diagnostic resources.
- Recognise the role of human factors, communication and multidisciplinary teamwork in delivering safe patient care in remote and expedition settings.
- Discuss strategies for managing clinical uncertainty, risk and evacuation planning when definitive care is not immediately available.
- Explain how continuity of care, observation over time and environmental context influence patient assessment and management outside traditional healthcare settings.
- Reflect on how lessons from remote medicine can enhance clinical practice, decision making and patient care within conventional healthcare environments.