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Desert Medicine | Oman | December 2018

£1,695.00

Join World Extreme Medicine for a new Desert Medicine course in Sharqiya Sands (formerly Ramlat al-Wahiba), Oman. This 6-day course will focus on medical and survival skills needed while working with teams across the world stunning desert landscapes.

Start: 9 December 2018, 11:00
End: 14 December 2018, 17:00

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Intro

We’ve brought together Dr Sean Hudson MBE and Mark Evans MBE together for an unforgettable Desert Medicine course in Sharqiya Sands (formerly Ramlat al-Wahiba), Oman. This 6-day course will focus on medical and survival skills needed while working with teams across the world’s stunning desert landscapes.

Overview

Our Desert Medicine team draw from extensive experience across the world’s deserts and will be sharing their knowledge and skills, giving you a comprehensive understanding of how to lead and provide medical cover on desert expeditions.

Mark Evans MBE brings incredible knowledge of exploration, especially in Oman with several desert crossings and a 1,700km solo kayak journey along Oman’s coastline. In 2011 Mark was awarded the MBE for his work using expeditions to promote intercultural understanding.

Sean Hudson MBE has been exploring and working in desert environments throughout his career, in 2016 he was the medical lead for first ever crossing of the Rub Al Khali, the largest sand desert on earth. In 2017 Sean was awarded the MBE for services to Providing Medical Aid and Education.

Over one-week Mark, Sean and the team will take you on a two part expedition on foot, supported by vehicles and camels through Sharqiya Sands. The desert will be your home for the duration of the course with a brief stop midway for a shower and freshen up. You’ll learn how to overcome the obstacles of the desert and work with the environment to make the most of desert expeditions. The WEM team will guide you through what it takes to keep your expedition team healthy in a desert environment and deliver the clinical skills you will require should anything go wrong.

Expedition and logistical support will be provided by the hugely experienced team at Outward Bound Oman.

Accreditation will be offered through the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. We estimate 30 hours of CPD will be awarded for the complete course.

What’s included?
All tutoring, accommodation and meals during the course
WEM care package
Safety equipment

What’s not included?
Travel costs
Travel and health insurance
Personal equipment

Do you need travel and health insurance?
We recommend all participants travelling outside of their home country, or where aero-medical evacuation may be required, have specific travel insurance in place for the expedition.

For your safety and security, we reserve the right to refuse access to an expedition until we have details of adequate insurance cover provided to us.

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The group will meet in Muscat at 1100 on Sunday 9 December.

You will return to Muscat on Friday 14 December in time to catch and evening / night departure.

When making travel plans we find www.rome2rio.com a super helpful site.

Course Content

  • Standard Operating Procedures for a desert environment
  • Heat Related Illness and Hydration
  • Basic Navigation
  • Trekking in the Desert
  • Navigation in the Desert
  • Primary survey in the Wilderness
  • Burns Management
  • Bushman Fire
  • Communication in the Desert
  • Medical Kit
  • Common medical problems in a desert environment
  • Choosing and setting up a camp and shelter in the desert
  • Water Distillation / Water in the Desert
  • Pre-expedition Planning
  • Vehicle Skills, Driving, extrication and Surviving with a vehicle
  • Managing Snake, Scorpion and Spider Envenomations
  • Field Management of Heat stroke
  • Introduction to Camels and use in the Desert
  • Improvised carrying techniques
  • Managing fractures and dislocations in the wilderness
  • Desert rescue scenario

 

Sean Hudson MBE

Sean is a former Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and was the first person in the UK to become a Fellow of the Academy of Wilderness Medicine. He has been involved in a wide variety of expeditions over the last 20 years. During this time he has trekked across the Darien Gap and the Thar Desert; worked as a trekking guide and Chief Medic for Raleigh International in Namibia and Zimbabwe; a trauma medic in Columbia; a ski field doctor in New Zealand and spent a season in the Antarctica for ALE.

In 2004 he became a medical consultant to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and works throughout the Middle East. Since 1998 he has worked for Across the Divide Expeditions as medic and expedition medicine advisor, providing medical cover on expeditions in 21 different countries. In 2002, he co-founded Expedition and Wilderness Medicine, which seeks to provide comprehensive training for medical professionals working as expedition medical officers in a variety extreme and remote environments.

In 2017 Sean was awarded an MBE as Co-founder World Extreme Medicine and Medical Lead, UKMed, Cumbria. For services to Providing Medical Aid and Education.

 

Mark Evans MBE

Based in Muscat, Oman, Mark Evans is an experienced desert and polar explorer and guide, writer, speaker and wilderness advocate.

He acts as a consultant in the fields of expedition logistics, risk mitigation and fund-raising. Twenty years spent living and travelling extensively in Arabia, backed up by 80 day camel expeditions, a 49 day crossing of the Rub Al Khali, a 55 day 1,700 km solo kayak journey from UAE to Yemen, and remote 4×4 journeys throughout Saudi Arabia and Oman, give Mark an unrivalled knowledge of the area.

Mark’s entrepreneurial spirit has seen him play a leading role in raising more than 26 million GBP funding from corporate and government sectors in the past ten years for exploration and education. He is currently the Executive Director of Outward Bound Oman, the first and only Outward Bound school in an Arabic speaking country.

A gifted communicator, Mark has written four books, and delivers thought-provoking, entertaining and engaging lectures to both public and corporate audiences all over the world; he speaks with passion and insight, whilst connecting bush to boardroom.

His creativity in the field of outdoor education and youth development saw Mark recognised as a Pioneer to the Life of the Nation at Buckingham Palace in 2003. In 2004, to address the polarisation of cultures, Mark established the Connecting Cultures initiative, later recognised by the United Nations Alliance of Civilisations as one of the world’s leading civil society initiatives. In 2011 he received an MBE for services to intercultural understanding. His latest book ‘Crossing the Empty Quarter’ was published in December 2016.

 

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Reviews

  1. Jeremy Weible –

    I took the course in 2017. I was an excellent adventure and a real learning lesson. The Oman sites were beautiful, and everyone was professional. I have been to a few events like this, but you can tell the staff and guides were also having a great time. A blend of wilderness medicine, along with the much needed “this is what really works, I know I tried it” knowledge. I would recommend to anyone wanting to explore and learn outside the box. Jeremy Weible

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