The acclaimed Oxford Handbook of Expedition and Wilderness Medicine (OUP, 2009) which can be purchased from Geography Outdoors, provides information on preventing and treating medical problems in challenging environment.

  The Medical Cell also provides guidelines on:

• First Aid Training
• Children at Altitude
• guidelines for acclimatisation on Mount Kilimanjaro

These PDF files can be downloaded by following the links on the right.

Guidance on heat-related illness and other environmental extremes can be found in the relevant section of the Expedition Medicine Manual.

  Wilderness Medical Training
Saturday 12  March 2011 - Sunday 13 March 2011
This course starts where conventional first aid training stops. It is designed for small expedition groups, solo travellers, media personnel, climbers, trek leaders/teachers, yachtsmen and any other people operating in remote areas overseas where medical help is not readily available.

  For further details and to book see the links on the right hand side.

  Remote Medical Assistance 
Remote Medical Support ran a competition to see how delegates would have benefited from contact with a UK doctor whilst on expedition.   Follow this link to read the case studies.