All applications will be accepted through the VSAS system (http://www.aamc.org/programs/vsas/). Look for the course under Weill Cornell. We ask that all students also e-mail the course Co-Directors through the course email account (cornell.wilderness@gmail.com) when applying, as we can keep track of your application status. If you have any questions regarding the VSAS system, you should contact Laura Diewald lad2017@med.cornell.edu

Note: : For those applying from outside of the United States, please email Diane Young, who is the person who handles overseas students rotating at Cornell. Her email is "Dianne E. Young" (dey2001@med.cornell.edu). Please contact her directly to complete your registration. She will also have country-specific information for you. The registrar requires some information that may take some time to procure, such as vaccination records/proof of immunity, so the sooner you are able to send in your information, the better.

We ask that all students e-mail the course e-mail account cornell.wilderness@gmail.com when applying, as we can keep track of your application status.

Monday

• Intro to WM
• Tick-borne Diseases
• Lightning & Electrical Injuries
• Drowning Injuries
• Expedition Medicine

Tuesday

• Hyperthermia/Heat Stress
• Plant Ingestions/Dermatitis
• Infectious Diarrhea from Wilderness & Foreign Travel
• Parasitic Diseases
• Splinting Workshop

Wednesday

• Envenomations
• NY Botanical Garden, Medicinal Botanicals & Ethnobotany
• American Museum of Natural History, Biodiversity in Human Health

Thursday

• Special Topics in WM
• Safe Water Procurement
• Space Medicine
• Pediatric Concerns in WM
• Disaster Response
• HAZMAT Awareness Course

Friday

• Hypothermia & Frostbite
• Dysbarism
• High Altitude Medicine
• Avalanche!
• When Animals Attack

Week 2: Backcounty: scenario and lecture-based learning plus student presentations will cover the following topics

• Environment & Human Health
• Improvisational Skills
• Ursine Precautions
• Snakebites
• Shelter Creation/Knot-tying Demo
• Scorpion Envenomations
• High Altitude Illness
• Search & Rescue
• Orhtopedic Fractures & Dislocations
• Backcountry Medcal Kit 101
• Anaphylaxis/Allergy in Backcountry
• Hyperthermia/Heat Stress
• Burns in the Wilderness
• Litter Creation Competition
• Ophthalmologic & Dental Injuries in the Backcountry
• Cervical Spine Inuries
• Lightning
• Approach to Multitrauma
• Issues of Medical Futility
• Gynecological Concerns
• Blister Care
• Tickborne Diseases
• Celestial & Field Orienteering
• Animal Bites
• Panic Attack/Mental Health
• Fungus and Plant Toxicity
• Safe Water Procurement
• Surviving an Unexpected Night Out
• Hypothermia
• Creating a Fire
• Frostbite
• Canine Injuries
• Medical Screening for a Group Trip
• Incident Communication and Evacuation Coordination

We offer a semi-annual residency elective in Wilderness Medicine on the spring or fall, that coincides with the dates of the medical student elective. Residents will help participate in the teaching and coordination of the elective, and will be expected to contribute the following:

• Scholarly publication
• Video teaching case
• Lessons from History
• Letter to the Editor


• The authoring and delivery of a 45 minute PPT lecture
• literature supported


• WMS Scenario Library submission


• FOR NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN EM RESIDENTS: Enrollment in the WMS FAWM will be initiated for interested candidates. Any resident who wishes to participate in a Wilderness Elective must apply to the WM course directors 90 days prior to the course. The course directors will then select which residents are most appropriate for the experience and then forward a list of resident participants to Dr. Carter. Residency leadership will then asses the residents' academic and compliance standing within the program and if no scheduling conflicts are present, will then approve their participation and forward it the Chiefs for inclusion on the schedules.


• Residents from other programs should email cornell.wilderness@gmail.com for specific details on how to participate.


• Residents will organize a journal club presentation to be done during the elective

All of our Wilderness Medicine Electives will offer credit towards the Fellowship of the Academy of Wilderness Medicine through the Wilderness Medical Society.
http://wms.org/fawm/default.asp

• "Fantastic course...high yield learning skills not otherwise covered in our curriculum..."


• "Large faculty: student ratio"


• "Nice to have paramedics/EMS involved!"


• "OUTSTANDING faculty leaders who were phenomenal teachers"


• "I would enthusiastically recommend this course!"


• "...the instructors are excited to teach students (which I did not find true of most other electives)"


• "This was the best course I have taken in medical school..."