World Extreme Medicine

08/03/2026

Seven days in the forests of Bygdeträsk working through field scenarios, Arctic travel, and the realities of operating in winter environments.

📍 Northern Sweden
📅 13th - 20th March 2026

You can explore this adventure here:
https://worldextrememedicine.com/extreme-medicine-courses/winter-adventure-medicine-course-sweden/

07/03/2026

Only 2 places remain on our Humanitarian Medicine Course in Northampton!

Delivering healthcare in humanitarian settings is rarely straightforward.
Systems may be disrupted, resources limited, and the needs of communities immense.
The ability to adapt, prioritise, and work effectively within complex environments becomes just as important as clinical knowledge.

Our four-day Humanitarian Medicine Course is designed to help healthcare professionals and students understand how care is delivered in these settings and how they can contribute safely and effectively.

Across the programme, you’ll explore the realities of working in conflict zones, refugee camps, disaster responses, and fragile health systems. Teaching is grounded in real operational experience from clinicians who have worked on the frontline of humanitarian response.

Throughout the course you’ll engage in:

✅ Expert-led teaching from experienced humanitarian clinicians
✅ Small-group workshops and case discussions exploring real scenarios
✅ Practical frameworks for working in resource-limited environments
✅ Discussions around public health priorities, logistics, security, and communication in humanitarian healthcare

The course takes place at Sedgebrook Hall in Northampton, with accommodation and meals included so participants can stay on-site, focus fully on learning, and build connections with others interested in humanitarian medicine.

Participants will also receive 23 CPD hours awarded by the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh.

Find out more and secure your place: https://worldextrememedicine.com/extreme-medicine-courses/humanitarian-medicine-course-northampton/

05/03/2026

It’s all happening in the wilderness this week.

Our Expedition & Wilderness Medicine course is in full swing, with search and rescue exercises on the hills, trauma scenarios in the field, casualty carries, teamwork under pressure and plenty of practical, hands-on learning.

From classroom to mountainside, our attendees are building the confidence to operate safely and effectively in remote environments.

If you were thinking about joining us and didn’t get a spot this time, we’d love to see you at Plas y Brenin, 4th - 7th May 2026.

Come and train where it matters.

Learn more: https://worldextrememedicine.com/extreme-medicine-courses/expedition-and-wilderness-medicine-course-pyb/

03/03/2026

How do you manage infectious disease threats in places where conditions are unpredictable, resources are limited, and the smallest mistake can have serious consequences?

In this new conversation, Eoin speaks with Muhammad Halwani, an infection control expert with extensive experience managing MERS outbreaks in Saudi Arabia. Together they explore:

• The frontline challenges of identifying and treating emerging viruses
• How national preparedness shaped the COVID 19 response
• The realities of working in field hospitals and remote deployments
• Antibiotic resistance in extreme environments
• What healthcare professionals need to know before entering austere settings

This episode offers an honest, insightful look at how infection control really works when the environment is working against you.

Listen to the full discussion: https://worldextrememedicine.com/extreme-medicine-podcast/

02/03/2026

Our 2026 Polar Medicine Course has wrapped up in Norway.

Seven days operating inside the Arctic Circle, where temperatures dropped as low as –30°C and every clinical decision was shaped by cold, isolation and limited rescue options.

This is what polar medicine looks like in reality, field-based training, a multi-day expedition, and a team learning to perform when systems are stripped back.

If you’ve been following along and thinking “maybe next year”… this is your reminder.

2027 dates are now available: https://worldextrememedicine.com/extreme-medicine-courses/polar-medicine-course-norway/

28/02/2026

We’re sharing an advisory opportunity within the renewable energy sector.

Gibb Group is prioritising the appointment of a Danish In-Country Medical Advisor to support offshore and onshore wind projects. They are also welcoming expressions of interest from licensed physicians in Norway, Belgium, France, Spain and Portugal.

This is a remote, governance-focused role. The position centres on clinical oversight, regulatory alignment, incident review and national advisory input, not telemedicine or direct clinical care.

Ideal candidates will have experience in emergency medicine, occupational health, remote or industrial medicine, and feel confident operating at a strategic governance level.

To apply or express interest, please email your CV to luca.alfatti@gibbgroup.global
and include your country of registration in the subject line.

Disclaimer: World Extreme Medicine is not affiliated with Gibb Group. We’re unable to respond to enquiries about this role. Please contact Luca directly at luca.alfatti@gibbgroup.global

Read full job listing: https://worldextrememedicine.com/job/urgent-opportunity-join-our-team-in-country-medical-advisor-denmark/

27/02/2026

At some point in your career, you realise that clinical competence alone isn’t enough.

You can manage the patient in front of you...
You can follow the guidelines...
You can lead a ward round...

But put that same skillset at altitude, in heat, in isolation, managing group dynamics and fatigue with no immediate backup, and the decision-making feels very different.

That gap between hospital medicine and expedition reality is exactly what this course is built to explore.

The Adventure Travel & Expedition Medicine programme in Morocco takes place across the High Atlas Mountains and the Agafay Desert, where terrain, environment and human factors become part of the teaching.

Over eight days you’ll apply expedition medicine principles in real conditions, supported by experienced faculty and local teams who understand how to balance challenge with safety.

It’s designed for those who want to expand their capability beyond conventional settings and build confidence operating when definitive care is hours away.

If you’ve been feeling that pull towards something more expansive in your practice, this is worth exploring. You can book directly or speak to our team to see whether it’s the right step for you.

Learn more:

Join our wilderness & expedition medicine course in Morocco. Learn desert & mountain medical skills for remote care. Ideal for medics & expedition leaders.

25/02/2026

What does World Extreme Medicine actually do?

Well... A LOT.

🚑 Courses, MSc & Grad Cert programs
🌍 A global network of medics & explorers
🎥 Medical support on TV & film and kit rental
🎙️ Podcasts, blogs & expert insights via our members portal
🎟 Annual WEM Conference
💡 WEMF (formally Medics4Ukraine) - Providing emergency aid and expertise across the globe to regions in need

Ready to push your skills further? Check out our website: https://worldextrememedicine.com/

23/02/2026

Cold changes everything.

Train in real winter conditions during our Winter Medicine Course in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. Over five days, you’ll build the skills and judgment needed to manage patients safely when snow, cold, and terrain raise the stakes.

This is hands-on, field-based training led by experienced wilderness clinicians, focused on decision-making, teamwork, and operating effectively in cold, resource-limited environments.

✔ Real winter scenarios
✔ Cold injury & trauma management
✔ 24 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™

📍 New Hampshire
📅 March 9–13, 2026

Ready for winter?

5 days of Winter Medicine training in New Hampshire's frozen White Mountains, alongside an elite faculty of explorers, mountain guides, and medics.

21/02/2026

A lot of people jump into expedition and extreme environments thinking it’s the medicine that will be the hard part.

Often, it isn’t.

It’s the navigation when the weather turns.
It’s managing your kit when everything’s wet.
It’s making good decisions when you’re tired, cold, hungry, and still responsible for a group.

Over four days in the hills around Cadair Idris, you’ll step away from comfort and into a multi-day mountain environment where you learn how to operate confidently outdoors.

You’ll learn how to plan routes properly, navigate using map, compass and GPS, manage kit and clothing systems, cook and live outdoors safely, assess risk as conditions change, and lead or function effectively within a group. These are the skills that sit underneath expedition medicine, search and rescue, remote work, and any environment where things don’t go exactly to plan.

You don’t need to be an elite athlete or have loads of prior experience. You just need the right kit, a decent base level of fitness, and a willingness to learn. The course is designed to support people wherever they’re starting from, and to leave you more capable, more confident, and far more comfortable operating outdoors.

📍 Dolgellau, North Wales
📅 14th – 17th September 2026

Find out more: https://worldextrememedicine.com/extreme-medicine-courses/expedition-skills-course/

19/02/2026

A lot of people feel drawn to humanitarian work long before they know what it actually involves.

They see the headlines, the images, and the urgency.

But what sits underneath all of that is complexity, uncertainty, and responsibility, and very few spaces to really understand it before you step into it.

Our Humanitarian Medicine Course exists to slow that moment down.

Over four days, you’ll explore what it really means to deliver healthcare in humanitarian and disaster settings, where systems are stretched or broken, resources are limited, and decisions carry weight far beyond a single patient. This isn’t about heroics or saviour narratives. It’s about understanding how care is delivered safely, ethically, and effectively when the context is difficult and the stakes are high.

You’ll learn from clinicians who’ve worked in these environments and who are honest about what it’s like. You’ll talk through real scenarios, ask uncomfortable questions, and start to build the judgement and awareness that matter just as much as clinical skill in these settings.

Because humanitarian medicine isn’t only about what you do, it’s about how you think, how you work with others, and how you fit into a much bigger response.

This course is designed for people who are curious, reflective, and serious about understanding this space properly. You don’t need prior humanitarian experience. You just need the willingness to engage with complexity and sit with the realities of working in disrupted environments.

The course is residential, so you stay on site, learn together, and have the space to really absorb what you’re learning, through conversations that continue long after the sessions end.

If you’ve ever felt drawn to humanitarian or global health work, but wanted a grounded, honest introduction before taking that step, this course was built for that moment.

Find out more: Find out more:

Humanitarian Medicine allows you to learn the theory, essential skills and key medical aspects of humanitarian intervention around the world.

17/02/2026

What happens when you combine emergency medicine, dive medicine, and life in some of the most remote environments on earth?

Our newest podcast episode takes you into the world of Gemma van Huyssteen, a doctor who has spent the last few years treating patients everywhere from Indonesian surf camps to remote South Atlantic islands.

Gemma shares stories from:
• Managing hazardous marine injuries
• Working without immediate evacuation options
• Life on board a 100-person research vessel
• Supporting local communities across Indonesia
• The importance of stepping outside traditional medical careers

She also gives us a look at her upcoming projects, including a webinar series on hazardous marine life and a new global platform celebrating waterwomen and ocean adventurers.

It’s a conversation full of honesty, courage, and the kind of real-world medicine most people never see.

Find out more about Surfing Doctors Association: https://surfingdoctors.com

Listen now on our site or wherever you get your podcasts (or click the link below!)
https://worldextrememedicine.com/extreme-medicine-podcast