Back from nowhere

So it's been a while since my last blog post and it's fast approaching the next Wilderness Emergency Medicine course this weekend. People may think that running a course is fairly easy to set up and run, but when you are setting up a course from scratch and doing everything yourself, it is quite a daunting task. However, the satisfaction rests with a successful exercise with candidates learning much from the instructors and ultimately having a great time in the field. Taking feedback from the last course in September 2013, I have changed the course dramatically, adding in several practical high-fidelity scenarios, and decreasing the number of didactic lectures, making the course more practical. There are also lots of demonstrations within the lecture components. This is going to be a very new and different and certainly a very exciting event. There are also a few new candidate instructors and observers who will be evaluated as instructors, hoping to increase the faculty for this programme.