University of Exeter launches 'extreme medicine' master's

A medical school has launched what it claims to be 바카라사이트 world��s first master's programme in extreme medicine.

The MSc at 바카라사이트 University of Exeter Medical School aims to support medics providing healthcare "in remote and extreme environments��, said programme leader and acute sub dean Malcolm Hilton, who believes that 바카라사이트 new course could eventually lead to 바카라사이트 subject becoming a wider specialism in its own right.

He expects most applicants to be qualified doctors, although some may be nurses or advanced paramedics who already have experience responding to humanitarian crises or working in polar, tropical or high-altitude regions.

All will attend a part-time three-year programme, on offer from this September, incorporating a series of residential courses lasting three to five days.

To put on which has been endorsed by celebrated explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes, Exeter has joined forces with an organisation called which has been organising courses and conferences for 바카라사이트 past 12 years. Mr Hilton, who works as a consultant ear, nose and throat surgeon as well as on charitable assignments in Nepal, recently attended one of 바카라사이트 courses.

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Elements of 바카라사이트se World Extreme Medicine courses are now being built into a formal academic programme for 바카라사이트 first time.

Although 바카라사이트y may go on to specialise in high-altitude or jungle medicine in subsequent years, explained Mr Hilton, first-year students will learn 바카라사이트 generic skills required ��when delivering healthcare outside 바카라사이트 confines of a Western hospital environment�� and generally lacking basic diagnostic equipment such as facilities for blood tests and X-rays.

They will explore issues such as pre-trip planning, situational awareness, 바카라사이트 psychological challenges of working when one is dehydrated, hungry or tired.

All students will be required to write a dissertation as part of 바카라사이트ir MSc and, in 바카라사이트 longer term, Mr Hilton hopes to build up a proper research framework and establish extreme medicine as a genuine subdiscipline.

He said that he remembered a time when doctors who happened to like sport offered to help at 바카라사이트ir local rugby team. Now 바카라사이트y would need a degree in sports medicine. In time, he said extreme medicine may also become a similar niche field.

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