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Cambridge University Wilderness Medicine Society

student society · in 3 sources (2017)

Sources by year: 2017: 3

Also known as: CUWMS, Wilderness Medicine Society

What the videos say

The most important statements of each year; all statements.

2017

  • 2017-09-11 · Wilderness Medicine Expedition - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #03 — Ali and fellow Cambridge medical students head to the Yorkshire Dales for a wilderness medicine expedition: a weekend of hiking with medical scenarios along the way. — 00:00:00
    • Ali writes that each term the Cambridge University Wilderness Medicine Society runs a couple of weekend trips to pretty parts of the UK, with mountain hiking, occasional medical scenarios, food and group bonding games. — video description
    • On the hike the group gets spontaneous teaching on how to make splints and how to use a tent to keep warm and as a stretcher to carry people down the hill. — 00:02:17
    • In the trip's first scenario, one medic and one expedition leader on a rocky mountainside assess two casualties, make a plan and pretend to call mountain rescue; Ali says they did reasonably well. — 00:03:17
    • a guest: A member of the Cambridge University Wilderness Medicine Society urges students to join it as the best society: wonderful weekends away, sociable, learning, fun and an escape from Cambridge. (playful) — 00:04:44
  • 2017-09-15 · Midnight Medical Emergency - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #04 — Ali writes that the wilderness medicine trips will be one of the parts of Cambridge medical student life he misses most when it is over. — video description
    • At about 11pm on the wilderness medicine trip, with everyone exhausted, a new scenario starts: there has been a fire at the campsite and help is needed. — 00:00:02
    • In the role-played fire, Ben, playing a drunk camper, knocked a barbecue into a tent; Isabella had burns to her right arm and leg, Becky had a smoke inhalation injury and an asthma attack and died, and Ben hit his head, had an epidural haemorrhage (as heard) and also died. — 00:01:06
  • 2017-11-25 · Students' Wilderness Medicine UK Conference - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #14 — Ali writes that he had never imagined wanting to do wilderness medicine until he got involved with the Cambridge University Wilderness Medicine Society (CUWMS) in his fourth year. — video description
  • …and 1 statement more in 2017 — all statements of 2017