Status of Wilderness Medicine Education in the United Kingdom: A Survey-Based Research and Review of the Literature.

IF 1.4 4区医学 Q3 PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH

Wilderness & Environmental Medicine Pub Date : 2025-03-25 DOI:10.1177/10806032251322488

David Rm Lee

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IntroductionWilderness medicine specializes in delivering clinical care in austere environments, far from healthcare facilities, with limited resources. There is no standardized wilderness medicine training for medical students within the United Kingdom. The aim of this research was to identify what wilderness medicine training is being delivered to undergraduate medical students in the United Kingdom to guide future educational research.MethodA scoping review following a PRISMA-ScR protocol was undertaken in the Medline and Scopus databases. This was supported by a digital survey sent to all UK university medical schools wilderness medicine interest groups to identify wilderness medicine teaching both within the curriculum and extracurricularly.ResultsOf the initial 1186 articles identified, 23 met the inclusion criteria. Seven represented practices in UK universities, and 21 represented a teaching module delivered to undergraduate students. Nineteen of the articles (91%) described faculty-delivered modules; two peer-led modules were both from UK universities. Thirty-one UK based wilderness medicine interest groups members responded to the online survey representing 13 different UK universities. All had been involved with extracurricular peer-led wilderness medicine teaching compared with 10% who received curriculum-based faculty-led teaching.ConclusionMost UK wilderness medicine training is extracurricular and peer led. Current research into this field provides excellent examples of wilderness medicine within UK medical schools but no comparisons between the methodologies for outcomes or cost efficiency. This review recommends more structured investigation to determine the optimal introduction to wilderness medicine for undergraduate medical students.

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Wilderness & Environmental Medicine 医学-公共卫生、环境卫生与职业卫生

CiteScore

2.10

自引率

7.10%

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审稿时长

>12 weeks

期刊介绍： Wilderness & Environmental Medicine, the official journal of the Wilderness Medical Society, is the leading journal for physicians practicing medicine in austere environments. This quarterly journal features articles on all aspects of wilderness medicine, including high altitude and climbing, cold- and heat-related phenomena, natural environmental disasters, immersion and near-drowning, diving, and barotrauma, hazardous plants/animals/insects/marine animals, animal attacks, search and rescue, ethical and legal issues, aeromedial transport, survival physiology, medicine in remote environments, travel medicine, operational medicine, and wilderness trauma management. It presents original research and clinical reports from scientists and practitioners around the globe. WEM invites submissions from authors who want to take advantage of our established publication''s unique scope, wide readership, and international recognition in the field of wilderness medicine. Its readership is a diverse group of medical and outdoor professionals who choose WEM as their primary wilderness medical resource.