a) To educate participants in the pathophysiology, recognition, and treatment of a variety of medical problems commonly encountered in wilderness environments and settings remote from hospital or definitive care.

b) To help establish a set of treatment priorities for care of the sick or injured in wilderness settings.

c) To educate participants in basic aspects of improvised care, rescue, and evacuation.

d) To teach participants certain “field skills” which might enable a physician to be more “capable” in a setting remote from definitive care.  Some of these topics include wilderness survival skills, planning an expedition medical kit, field water disinfection, and “improvisational” medical skills.

e) To educate participants about psychological aspects of wilderness emergencies.

f) To educate participants about some of the current recommendations regarding prophylaxis and treatment for so – called “Traveler’s Illnesses”.

g) To discuss and review recent investigative studies and literature on wilderness-medicine topics.