The Essentials of Mountain Medicine Part Two

Mountain Medicine
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Part Two builds on the foundations of the first session, shifting the focus towards applied learning, reflection, and professional development. Jonathan Thompson discusses how individuals and teams build resilience, manage risk, and learn from both success and failure in extreme environments.

The conversation explores leadership, communication, and human factors in remote medicine, alongside the ethical and psychological challenges that can arise when working with limited support and high consequence decision-making. This episode also considers how these lessons translate back into everyday clinical practice, leadership roles, and wider professional development.

This session is designed for those looking to deepen their understanding of extreme medicine principles and apply them across clinical, expedition, and leadership contexts.

Watch part one here.

More Information

Length: 44m
Host: Eoin Walker
Categories: Mountain Medicine

Intended Learning Outcomes

By the end of this session, participants should be able to:

  • Explore how human factors and team dynamics influence outcomes in extreme environments

  • Understand strategies for managing risk, uncertainty, and cognitive load in high-pressure settings

  • Reflect on ethical and psychological challenges encountered in remote or austere care

  • Identify transferable skills from extreme medicine that apply to everyday clinical practice

  • Consider how experiential learning informs leadership, resilience, and professional growth

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