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Ocean and Marine Medicine

Ocean Medicine | Plymouth | May 2019

£995.00

Our ground-breaking Ocean and Marine Medicine training course is designed to give medical professionals a highly practical and immersive training experience for any Ocean-going events and expeditions.

Start: 6 May 2019, 08:30
End: 9 May 2019, 16:00

  • Difficulty: Specialised
  • Spaces Left: High
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Description

Intro Ocean and Marine Medicine Training Course

Ocean and Marine Medicine is aimed at medical and healthcare professionals interested in supporting marine based challenges, sporting events, ocean swims, extended sailing trips and expeditions. The course has been designed to cater for non-medics with a significant interest in ocean/ marine events.

World Extreme Medicine course alumni have left to take part in expeditions across the globe, responded to natural disasters and emergencies and gain placements with organisations such us Raleigh International, UK-Med, Team Rubicon and Médecins Sans Frontières as well as set of to swim Cape Horn, row unimaginable distances and help others achieve thier lifetime ambitions on the water.

Overview

We set our Ocean and Marine Medicine course in the historic city of Plymouth well known for its maritime heritage and contribution to ocean exploration.

Developing the best curriculum for this course came through consultation with a group of world renowned ocean explorers, sports people and logisticians including record setting ocean rowers Sarah Outen & Laura Penhaul, expedition yacht skipper Dr Nick Carter,  Ocean Swimmer Nuala Moore and Ian Couch veteran on many Atlantic Rowing Challenges.

The Ocean and Marine Medicine course is highly practical involving a significant amount of time on the water and in working in small groups.

Accreditation will be offered through the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. We estimate 24 hours of CPD will be awarded for the complete course.

This course courses now include the WEM care package which contains branded stickers, lanyard and 10l dry bag.

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

What’s not included?
Travel costs
Insurance (for international travellers)
Personal equipment
Drinks and food purchased from the bar

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We highly recommend staying at the Mount Batten Centre the evening before the course, you can book additional B&B accommodation for Sunday night directly with the venue for approximately £35 per night direct via enquiries@mount-batten-centre.com or call +44 (0) 1752 404567

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

Course Content

  • Fracture management & musculoskeletal injuries including taping and splinting.
  • Common conditions- gastro, dermatology, prolonged salt water exposure, nutrition, sea sickness, public health and nutrition.
  • Trauma recovery, burns & wound management
  • Nutrition, hydration & vitamin deficiency
  • Situational awareness and physiological first aid
  • Marine envenomation
  • Helicopter procedures, abandon ship procedures, Aeromedical evacuation
  • Immersion, post submersion and unconscious patient
  • Hypothermia & Hyperthermia
  • Medical kits & communication
  • Boat handling with search and rescue
Issues specific to:
  • Dive Medicine
  • Ocean rowing
  • Ocean swimming
  • Pan ocean sailing
Expedition & Wilderness Medicine Australia, remote medical training courses - Expedition & Wilderness Medicine: Dr Alex Rowe Medical Director UK

Alex Rowe Medical Director – EWM courses

Alex qualified as a doctor in 1994 from Cambridge University and St Bartholomew’s in London, then worked in anaesthetics, intensive care, emergency medicine, paediatrics, obstetrics and gynaecology, eventually becoming a GP in South Devon. Alex started rock climbing and mountaineering at the age of 14, and travelled to Iceland on his first expedition in 1988. Since then he has travelled the world extensively, including working as the medic looking after groups of people adventuring in Patagonia, Vietnam, Cambodia, Iceland, Poland, Greece, The Czech Republic and Africa, including Tanzania, Kenya and the Sahara Desert.

Alex works a portfolio career as Medical Director for World Extreme Medicine. He is responsible for course development, academic content and delivery, and working with the University of Exeter Medical School as an Honorary Clinical Lecturer developing the Post Graduate Masters programme in Extreme Medicine. His additional roles include Locum GP, Consultant Physician Advisor for United Healthcare Remote Medics, and in his spare time works with South Western Ambulance Service as a Pre Hospital Care BASICS doctor.

He has over ten years of experience in maritime search and rescue operations, working as navigator, helmsman and medic aboard RNLI lifeboats. This volunteer work with the RNLI started after many years of dinghy sailing, progressing to offshore sailing. Alex also has many years of experience in ski trekking and back country skiing, with some of his favourite bed time reading being about snow pack and avalanche theory.

Dr Claire Bailey

Member of the all-female Round the World Race Crew with Tracy Edwards. On-board doctor for adventurer Steve Fossett and Maxi Catamaran Playstation/ Cheyenne – survived dismasting in Southern Ocean – adrift for 10 days and under tow for further week.

Catherine Buckland

commerical diver and dive instructor. Spending the last decade working in the marine industry, either working as a diver or diver medic, teaching diving or power boating among other marine based qualifications. This work is varied and takes her to some challenging environments where all the skills and experience need to be put in place.

Chris Booker

As a Marine Biologist and Offshore Commercial diver Chris has over 20 years experience working in a range of diverse marine environments from the Caribbean to the Atlantic and the North Sea. When he’s not under the water he’s usually found teaching maritime courses, skippering boats or working as a Dive Medic Technician.

Laura Penhaul

Former lead physiotherapist with Team GB Paralympic Athletics, lead for the ‘Coxless Crew” row of the Pacific.

Ian Couch

Safety & Operations Manager for the Talisker Atlantic Challenge and has himself rowed the Atlantic twice, rowed the Indian Ocean, run the Gobi and crossed Greenland since 2008 and has 6 Guinness World Records for the rowing (including the first crossing of the Indian) and one British record for the fastest crossing of Greenland.

 

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