Description
Intro Jungle Medicine Training CME/ CPD Course in Costa Rica
Our 7-day Jungle Medicine training course provides an immersive training experience set within the stunning tropical rainforests of Costa Rica, all under the expert guidance of our faculty team.
A Jungle Medicine training course is set on the stunning Pacuare River, Costa Rica. As featured in the British Medical Journal and as the Editor’s Choice. Read Dr Alex Rowe’s write-up of the Jungle course.
Overview
The Jungle Medicine course aims to equip doctors, nurses and paramedics with practical survival skills, an overview of tropical medicine, logistical knowledge and pre-hospital skills required on a jungle expedition.
This action-packed course kicks off by rafting into camp before running through the essential information you’ll need for the days ahead.
Splitting the course into practical and theory based elements gives the WEM team the opportunity to vary teaching methods and importantly, get you hands-on ‘learning by doing’. You’ll learn basic navigation and camp craft skills for use in this complex training environment, we’ll discuss the common conditions found in jungle environments and learn how to treat conditions common in Jungle and sub-tropical locations.
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
Downloadable course resources
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.
Eoin Walker
Joe Rowles
Josie Gilday
Mieke –
Excellent course. First of all taking place in a beautiful country, covering a wide variety of subjects relevant to surviving as a medic in the jungle via lectures and hands-on skills, whilst being fully immersed in the astonishing deep untouched jungle. Adding the extras of traveling over and crossing the Pacuare, wading through streams carrying your pack and of course an amazing team! Would definitely recommend and go again.