Expedition Medicine National Conference

Course Benefits    Dates    Location    Schedule    Tuition    Registration    Additional Course Information    

The Expedition Medicine National Conference has been designed to provide “best of service” educational opportunities to medical professionals interested in practicing in remote or extreme environments, or consulting on patients who have returned from these isolated locations.  Learn more about the course online at www.expedmed.org.

Course Benefits

The purpose of the Expedition Medicine conference will be to educate medical professionals regarding principles of working in foreign countries, extreme environments, and remote locations. Experts have been selected to cover the course material. The experts selected not only have impeccable academic credentials, but also vast experience in their chosen fields.

Dates

September 2-6, 2008

Location

RENAISSANCE, Washington DC Hotel
999 Ninth Street, NW
Washington, DC 2001 USA
Hotel reservation information available here

Schedule

  Time Activity Speaker
Tuesday, September 2
  4:00pm - 6:00pm Registration  
  6:00pm - 6:15pm Welcome  
  6:15pm - 7:15pm The Expedition Physician Donner
  7:15pm - 7:30pm Break  
  7:30pm - 8:30pm Shark Attacks Auerbach
Wednesday, September 3
  7:00am - 8:00am Registration  
  8:00am - 9:00am Marine Envenomations Auerbach
  9:00am - 10:00am Living and Working Abroad Bledsoe
  10:00am - 10:30am Break  
  10:30am - 11:30am Submersion Injuries Auerbach
  11:30am - 12:30pm Evidence Based Medical Kit Callahan
  12:30pm - 2:00pm Lunch  
  2:00pm - 3:00pm Hyperthermia Erickson
  3:00pm - 4:00pm Water Disinfection Donner
  4:00pm - 5:00pm Med Evac and Overseas Emergency Referral Callahan
  8:00pm - 9:00pm The Matis Indians of the Amazon Jungle Spielman
Thursday, September 4
  8:00am - 9:00am Evacuation Insurance Manyak
  9:00am - 10:00am Malaria Chemoprophylaxis Magill
  10:00am - 10:30am Break  
  10:30am - 11:30am Snake Bites on Four Tropical Continents Warrell
  11:30am - 12:30pm Toxic Plants and Mushrooms Erickson
   Afternoon Labs:    
  4 hours Dental Workshop Nweeia
  2 hours Improv Workshop Donner
  3 hours Clandestine and Special Operations Medicine Workshop Callahan
Friday, September 5
  8:00am - 9:00am High Altitude Medicine Donner
  9:00am - 10:00am Venomous Arthropods Warrell
  10:00am - 10:30am Break  
  10:30am - 11:30am Legal Issues Knutson
  11:30am - 12:30pm Hypothermia and Frost Bite Kamler
  12:30pm - 2:00pm Lunch  
  2:00pm - 2:45pm Roundtable Moderated by Bledsoe
  2:45pm - 3:00pm Break  
  3:00pm - 4:00pm Life-Threatening Tropical Medicine Emergencies Warrell
  4:00pm - 5:00pm Staying Found Donner
  5:00pm - 6:00pm Dive Medicine Cook
Saturday, September 6
  8:00am - 9:00am The Eye Spielman
  9:00am - 10:00am Medicine at Sea Johnson
  10:00am - 10:30am Break  
  10:30am - 11:30am Rabies Magill
  11:30am - 12:30pm Medical Teams in the Field Townes
  12:30pm - 1:00pm Aerospace Medicine Williams

Tuition

Registration Type  Before April 15  After April 15
 Physician     $797 $897
 Non-Physician  $597  $697

Registration

Online registration is available by clicking here.

Additional Course Information

 

Target Audience

The target audience is the medical professional who ventures into remote locations and/or the medical professional advising patients who plan to go to, or have just visited, a remote destination. Physicians are the primary target but paramedics, nurses, and midlevel providers will also be in attendance.

Accreditation

Approved by the American College of Emergency Physicians for 29.25 hours of ACEP Category 1 credit.

More detailed information is available online at www.expedmed.org.  

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