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Wilderness Medicine in Utah This March, the Wilderness Medical Society held their Winter Medicne Meeting in Park City, Utah. Our clinic attended and we highly recommend future meetings of the WMS. We encourage both physicans and members if the public to become involved as this organization does much to reseach and educate professionals about human health as well as the environment. I was able to meet physicians and other health care professionals from all across North America and even Austrailia. We welcome them to our website as well. One of the goals of this website is a free exchange of ideas and I would welcome comments and submissions. I may be contacted directly at gary_podolsky@yahoo.com. For new visitors some quick navigational links: Previous meetings on Wilderness Medicine topics We would like to highlight our previous workshop on Winter Sports Medicine
Arctic Medicine Both were done with help from Dr Jim Wilkerson. I woul also like to thank Jim and Sam Wilkerson for their generous hospitality during my recent visit through Park City. Some Basic information on common travel medicine issues Comments about travel destinations. This is an open forum where we ask for submissions from travelers to describe good or bad expierences about destinations. I will be opening up a section on Utah soon. I will also be uploading some information from out avalanche course from Exum. Several participants who took the course plan on sharing our decsriptions of snow in the analysis of Avalanche risk
I plan to update this page with some key concepts I learned from this meeting. We have prepared some downloadable patient informational pamphlets on: Or try the Flashpaper download page
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