Birmingham Wilderness and Expedition Medicine Society

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*SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT*

We are thrilled to announce Dr. Saleyha Ahsan, a renowned emergency medicine doctor, broadcaster, and filmmaker, as a speaker at this year’s conference. Dr. Ahsan's presentation, focused on "Exploring Healthcare Challenges in Conflict Zones," promises to be an enlightening and thought-provoking talk.

To learn more about Dr. Saleyha Ahsan and her impactful work, connect with her on:

* Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/saleyhaahsan/
* Twitter: https://twitter.com/SaleyhaAhsan
* Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saleyha_Ahsan

Stay tuned to our events page for more details about the upcoming conference in May 2024!
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**SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT**

We are excited and honoured to announce that Professor Mark Hannaford, Founder of World Extreme Medicine, will be speaking at this year’s conference. His presentation will be titled: 'Extreme Medicine: Where Humanity Goes, Medicine Must Follow'.

To find out more about Professor Mark Hannaford and World Extreme Medicine, visit:

- Instagram: .hannaford_adventurer,
- LinkedIn: Mark Hannaford - https://www.linkedin.com/in/markhannaford/
- Facebook: World Extreme Medicine
- World Extreme Medicine: https://worldextrememedicine.com

See our events page for more details about the upcoming conference in May 2024!



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*SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT*

We are excited to announce our first speaker for this year’s conference!! Dr Jonathan Milton, currently a clinical fellow in Anaesthesia and Perioperative medicine in Cornwall. Jonny has a particularly interest in anaesthetics, PHEM, trauma, expedition and altitude medicine - he will be discussing the physiology of high altitude medicine, high altitude illnesses and their management - as well as tips and tricks of getting involved with expedition + wilderness Medicine.

To find out more about Dr Jonathan Milton, visit;

- Instagram:

See our events page for more details about the upcoming conference May 2024!

The conference is currently underway!! We are currently hearing all about Dr Klara Weaver's experience in Antartica, and it sounds amazing!!

It's not to late to join, just drop us a message if you would like to join!

We hope your all looking forward to the conference!! The conference will begin at 9:45 am (GMT). If your having any technical issues joining, or have not yet signed up for the link just drop us a message via any of our social media platforms - or an email at : [email protected]

Only a few hours left until we will be sending out the zoom link for tomorrow! Make sure you have completed the sign up form!!

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** CONFERENCE TIMETABLE **

We hope you are all looking forward to tomorrow we have attached the timetable for the day so you can ensure you don't miss any of our amazing speaker's talks through the day!

As you may notice we are extremely disappointed that we will no longer be receiving a talk from Professor Mark Hannaford tomorrow, this is due to admin delays with the university and has been completed out of our hands. We are hoping to arrange a separate talk from Professor Mark Hannaford is the near future so you are all still able to hear from him. In the mean time we hope your are all looking forward to all the other amazing speakers we have lined up for tomorrow.

Only a few days left until the conference! Make sure to complete the sign up link to receive the zoom link for the day!

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*SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT*

With less than a week to go, we are excited to announce our final speaker - Professor Stefan Braunecker, an associate professor of Anaesthesiology and Pre-Hospital Medicine at the University of Florida, HEMs Doctor and Extreme Environment Doctor.

Learn more about Professor Braunecker;

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** CONFERENCE SIGN UP LINK **

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*SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT*

For our upcoming conference, we are excited to announce Dr Rachel Varnam, who was recently deployed on board the RRS James Clark Ross with the British Antarctic Survey. Dr Varnam will be discussing her experiences working as a Doctor within a small team on board a remotely deployed ship.

See our events page for more details about the upcoming conference November 2022!

*SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT*

For our upcoming conference, we are extremely excited to announce Professor Mark Hannaford, the World’s first honorary associated professor awarded for his work in extreme medicine, and the founder of World Extreme Medicine.

To find out more about Professor Mark Hannaford, visit;

- Instagram: .hannaford_fewm
- Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/markhannaford/?originalSubdomain=uk
- World Extreme Medicine: https://worldextrememedicine.com

See our events page for more details about the upcoming conference November 2022!

*SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT*

For our upcoming conference, we are excited to announce Dr Jessie Gehner joining us all the way from Virginia Tech, USA.

Dr Jessie Gehner is an Emergency Physician and the Assistant Wilderness Medicine Fellowship Director for Virginia Tech Carilion, USA whom will be discussing her experiences trekking many notable trails including those across the Appalachian Mountains and the health complications which arise with hiking such extreme routes

See our events page for more details about the upcoming conference November 2022!

*SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT*

For our upcoming conference, we are excited to announce Dr Klara Weaver who will be discussing her experiences as an emergency and expedition medicine doctor working with the British Antarctic Survey over the past 20 months.
To find out more about Dr Klara Weaver, visit:

- Instagram:
- Blog: https://weaverexplores.wordpress.com/so-who-am-i/

See our events page for more details about the upcoming conference November 2022!

SOLD OUT!!

Be excited folks, the moment has arrived to announce the most coveted event of the year! This year wilderness medicine will be taking you to Dartmoor for an action-packed weekend, including hiking, clinical skills teaching, simulation, and a lecture evening with some of our expert guest speakers.

Link to event:
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Be prepared to be Bear Grylls for the weekend!

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Free BWEMS memberships are now live on the guild website! Sign up through the link below:

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Signing up for the free membership will allow you to come to any of our amazing upcoming events and also stand and vote in future AGMs and EGMs.

Membership also helps us gain funding to run bigger and better events so if you've enjoyed our events before or want to get involved in future, sign up to help us run more exciting events!

Wilderness Med - Membership Your Students' Union for the University of Birmingham. We exist to make sure students get the best from Birmingham.

Now it's easier to send Birmingham Wilderness and Expedition Medicine Society a message.

Thank you to everyone that signed up for the clinical skills day on Saturday. We have sent out an email so please check your inbox and junk!

For those still keen to get involved we have 3 spaces left!

The AGM is upon us😱😱
See you all at 8pm, zoom link below.
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After a brilliant morning of talks and Q&As, we're excited to kick off this afternoon with a talk by Prof Braunecker on extreme environment medicine, followed by our poster competition announcements!

We’ve had a super interesting time listening to Dr Mark Willis this morning! We’re so excited to hear about Professor Kathryn Chu’s work with MSF around the world next, and her insights into humanitarian medicine. If you’ve signed up, there’s still time to join in time for her talk and Dr Saleyha Ahsan’s before lunch!

24 hour warning until BWEMS' first ever international wilderness medicine conference!

We have filled over 75% of our places for the conference on Saturday. To secure the last remaining spaces fill out the sign up form below:

https://forms.gle/Q9SLHNfemSgJiQKXA

FORM CLOSES 9PM 12th March

WHAT CAN YOU EXPECT?
* 8 leading experts in wilderness medicine
* 7 inspirational talks on a wide variety of topics including expedition, humanitarian, space medicine and more
* How to get into Wilderness Medicine
* Poster presentation
* Certificates of attendance
* Networking opportunities
* COMPLETELY FREE!

BWEMS Virtual Wilderness Medicine Symposium Pre-sign up form

**Speaker Announcement**

With only ONE week until our conference, we are delighted to announce Prof Chu, a general and colorectal surgeon based in South Africa.

She will be speaking on 'Challenges in Humanitarian Medicine: Tales from an MSF surgeon'

**Speaker Announcement**

We are sure many of you will remember anaesthetist, HEMS Dr and extreme environment doctor Professor Braunecker from our weekend away last year. He will be speaking on the need for extreme medicine and announcing the winner to our poster competition. It's going to be amazing!!

Check out Dr Ahsan, one of our fantastic conference speakers, latest documentary on Channel 4!

https://www.channel4.com/programmes/covid-critical-a-doctors-story-dispatches

Covid Critical: A Doctor's Story: Dispatches An intimate record of life on the NHS frontline through the second wave of Covid

***POSTER COMPETITION RULES***

Application Guidelines:
1. This poster competition is open to students and junior doctors.
2. By submitting your poster you confirm that it is your own original work.
3. Posters must be submitted by 5pm on 6th March 2021.
4. Submissions must be submitted as a single side including all images, diagrams and references.
5. Posters must be referenced in an appropriate academic style.
6. Submissions will be judged on the specifications laid out in the marking criteria (see attached document)
7. Up to 10 posters will be shortlisted for the 1st, 2nd and 3rd prizes. The 1st prize poster will be offered the opportunity to present their project at the conference.
8. Winning posters will be announced to all conference attendees during the event by our special guest speaker.

*** INFORMATION ABOUT THE POSTER COMPETITION***

Please submit posters to [email protected] and CC: [email protected]

Posters are used frequently in medical research to present information in a professional and easily digestible manner. For this competition we are looking for posters worthy of presentation at an international conference. This may be a piece of original research, an audit or a case/ case series. For example; a student could submit an abstract based on their experience providing medical care in the field (a case study) or any other aspect of health care in an austere setting.
CRITERIA
Judges are asked to consider the following criteria when grading posters and deciding who will be presenting in the conference as well as who will win first, second and third prizes.
ORIGINALITY:
How original is the concept presented in this poster? Or, how original is the new approach to an old problem?
SIGNIFICANCE:
How significant are the poster's conclusions in increasing understanding of wilderness and expedition medicine? Have the main themes of the poster been extrapolated to apply to the wider field? (case study)
PRESENTATION:
How logical are the ideas presented in this poster? How interesting is the manner of presentation? How clearly written and free of significant grammatical problems is its abstract?
METHODS:
If applicable, how suitable is the research design for the stated objectives, and how appropriate are any statistical techniques applied?
VISUAL IMPACT:
How effective is this poster visually? How valuable is each figure and graph in furthering viewers' understanding of the research subject?
INTERVIEW:
How knowledgeable and engaging is the presenting author? Can they answer questions posed by attendees well?

**POSTER COMPETITION- BIRMINGHAM INTERNATIONAL WILDERNESS AND EXTREME MEDICINE SYMPOSIUM***

Boost the CV and get those all important UKFPO points!!

Opportunity to present your research/ audit/ interest project as a poster at our Wilderness and Extreme Medicine conference.

Maximum of 10 posters will be shortlisted and selected to speak at our zoom symposium. 1st, 2nd and 3rd will be decided by our team of esteemed experts and will recieve prizes.

Certificates will be given to all those who submit a poster. Full marking criteria will be posted and available on request.

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