This is a meeting organized through Minneapolis and the bus trips are from minneapolis but this has a broad appeal to manitoban practtioners and is included here from Adam Hoverman DO, organizer:

The Wilderness Health Society (WHS) of UMN, in collaboration with the University of Utah and AdventureMed, will be hosting an Advanced Wilderness Life Support Course at the Concordia Language Villages from 18-22 December 2007.

Advanced Wilderness Life Support
When: Dec. 18-22, 2007
Where: Concordia Language Villages, Bemidji, MN
What: 17.5 hours of hands-on, practical wilderness medicine
Cost: $165 Students, $372 Non-Doctorals, $525 MD/DO
plus $150 for food, lodging and transportation on a coach bus)
(BYO bedding, towels and winter play gear)
Limit: 75 (MD, RN, and PA doctoral/students or EMTs or Paramedics)

$165 Deposit due Oct. 15 (final balance due Dec. 1)
Make checks out to: Wilderness Health Society
Address: University of Minnesota Twin Cities
CHIP Student Center
1-425 Moos Tower
515 Delaware Street SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455

Objectives:
-To provide a practical foundation in Wilderness Medicine for medical
professionals
-To teach patient assessment and treatment guidelines for life support
until definitive care or evacuation is available
-To train the provider in methods to manage medical and trauma
emergencies and urgencies in the wilderness when evacuation is
unavailable or unnecessary.
-To teach techniques and guidelines for evacuation

Schedule
Leave: 1pm Tue. 12/18 from the U of MN
Daily Schedule: 2-3 hours AM and 2-3 hours PM lecture/skills
Perks: lots of free time with expedition presentations and leadership
training in
evenings
Depart: 10am Sat. 12/22

Lecture Topics
Infectious Disease
Lightning
Medical Kits
Medical Problems
Patient Assessment
Submersion Injuries
Water Disinfection and Purification
Wound and Musculoskeletal Injuries Management
Animal, Insect, Arthropod, Marine Bites and Stings
Avalanche
Head, Eye, Ear, Nose, Throat, Skin
High Altitude Related Problems
Hyperthermia
Hypothermia & Frostbite

Practical Curriculum (small groups, outdoor setting)
Assessment and scene safety
spine management
Dislocations, fractures, traction, and splints
Hypothermia wraps
Life support scenarios
\Patient Packaging and Evacuation