INTMD 7982 (2023/2024)

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State
PUBLISHED
Course
INTMD 7982 - Wilderness Medicine - Backpacking Learning Experience
Description
This is a wilderness medicine elective that includes a front country base camp, camping, backpacking, and back country base camp. Focus is on backpacking medicine and basic wilderness medicine skills.

7/26/2023 - 3/31/2024: Virtual Sections
This is an online course that teaches wilderness medicine related to backpacking and hiking. Students can begin this course at any time but will need to complete it before the section end date. Subjects include, lighting injuries, medical aspects of clothing, bites and stings, foot problems, first aid kits, backpacks/back pain, and water treatment. The Backpacking Medicine certificate will be issued on successful completion of the course. Please follow the elective URL to view dates and additional information and how to take this online course. www.wildmedu.org

4/15/2024 - 4/28/2024: In-Person Section
Wilderness Medicine - Backpacking/Hiking Medicine: This is a non-clinical elective that teaches backpacking and hiking medicine in southern Utah near Zion National Park. It begins with a 2-day lecture series. Students will hike during the two week period that they are not in class. There are a number of day hikes and a number of longer hikes in the area around Zion National Park. Students more familiar with backpacking will be able to organize into small groups and go on longer hikes. Students must have their own transportation and transportation costs.

Students will meet Friday, April 19, at 6:00 PM at the Hampton Inn and Suites in Springdale, Utah (outside Zion National Park), for an opening social. Students will get to know each other and become familiar with the area. More instructions will be given then.

This will be "front-country" classroom instruction focusing on backpacking and hiking medicine Saturday and Sunday.

Campsites will be reserved for students Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights during the lecture part of the course directly inside Zion National Park. But for hiking or backpacking days after that students will be responsible for their own camping, places to stay, and food for backpacking. Please follow the Elective URL to view dates and additional information. www.awls.info and study from www.wildmedu.org
Department
Internal Medicine
Credit Range
2 - 2
Academic Year
2023/2024
Permission Required
No
School Years
MSIIIMSIV
Course Classifications
VIRTUALELECTIVE
Coordinator(s)
Ingebretsen,Richard (DC) | richi47@comcast.net
Directors(s)
Ingebretsen,Richard (DD) | richi47@comcast.net
Possible Grade(s)
Fail (F)Incomplete (I)Pass (P)
Prerequisites
Phases 1 and 2
Add Policy

Course may be added to schedule by the start date. For the in-person section, students must have their own transportation and will be responsible for their own camping, places to stay, and food for backpacking.

Drop Policy

Course may be dropped from schedule 7 days after the course has started.

Syllabus
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2025/2026
2024/2025
2023/2024
2022/2023
2021/2022

Available Sections

Title Tags Year Start/End C S W
INTMD 7982 - Virtual Wilderness Med - Backpacking Learning Exp VIRTUALELECTIVE 2023/2024 06/26/2023 - 07/09/2023 2 74 0
INTMD 7982 - Virtual Wilderness Med - Backpacking Learning Exp VIRTUALELECTIVE 2023/2024 07/24/2023 - 08/06/2023 2 73 0
INTMD 7982 - Virtual Wilderness Med - Backpacking Learning Exp VIRTUALELECTIVE 2023/2024 08/21/2023 - 09/03/2023 2 70 0
INTMD 7982 - Virtual Wilderness Med - Backpacking Learning Exp VIRTUALELECTIVE 2023/2024 09/18/2023 - 10/01/2023 2 72 0
INTMD 7982 - Virtual Wilderness Med - Backpacking Learning Exp VIRTUALELECTIVE 2023/2024 10/16/2023 - 10/29/2023 2 67 0
INTMD 7982 - Virtual Wilderness Med - Backpacking Learning Exp VIRTUALELECTIVE 2023/2024 11/13/2023 - 11/26/2023 2 24 0
INTMD 7982 - Wilderness Medicine - Backpacking Learning Experience VIRTUALELECTIVE 2023/2024 11/20/2023 - 12/03/2023 2 0 0
INTMD 7982 - Wilderness Medicine - Backpacking Learning Experience VIRTUALELECTIVE 2023/2024 01/15/2024 - 01/28/2024 2 0 0
INTMD 7982 - Virtual Wilderness Med - Backpacking Learning Exp VIRTUALELECTIVE 2023/2024 01/22/2024 - 02/04/2024 2 19 0
INTMD 7982 - Virtual Wilderness Med - Backpacking Learning Exp VIRTUALELECTIVE 2023/2024 02/19/2024 - 03/03/2024 2 12 0
INTMD 7982 - Virtual Wilderness Med - Backpacking Learning Exp VIRTUALELECTIVE 2023/2024 03/18/2024 - 03/31/2024 2 -2 0
INTMD 7982 - Wilderness Medicine - Backpacking Learning Experience ELECTIVE 2023/2024 04/15/2024 - 04/28/2024 2 41 0
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