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Students' Wilderness Medicine UK Conference - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #14

2017-11-25 · Vlog or day in the life · Ali · recording, 6:27 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Medicine and his doctor years · mode: Demonstration and walkthrough

In his final year Ali and his friends camp for three days in a field in Nottingham at SWMUK, a student wilderness medicine conference, with an army casualty workshop and talks on expedition, humanitarian and aerospace medicine; he leaves wanting to explore wilderness medicine further.

What is said

The parts of the video and what is said in each (★ — how much it matters to the video).

00:00:00 — Arriving at the field in Nottingham, pitching the tent in the rain, a wet first night

  • ★★ Ali and his friends arrive at a field in Nottingham for a three-day wilderness medicine conference, camping in tents, with workshops, lectures and scenarios to come. — 00:00:00
  • ★ Ali's first night at the conference is uncomfortable, in a tent that gets wetter and wetter as the night goes on. — 00:00:29

00:01:00 — Welcome to the conference and the casualty workshop with the army

  • ★★ The first workshop of the conference is run by army instructors, who have the students use all the equipment in a tent; Ali finds it high-energy, intense and very fun. — 00:01:53

00:02:37 — A day of talks on humanitarian and aerospace medicine, pizza and cards

  • ★★ Ali finds the first day's talks inspiring: a woman on humanitarian medicine and a man on aerospace medicine, people who combine medicine with other pursuits to carve out careers. — 00:02:37

00:03:35 — Final day: packing up, talks on expedition medicine and their main takeaway

  • ★ On the second night Ali and his friends sleep dry in the massive tent of a girl they befriended at the conference. — 00:03:35
  • ★★ The final day's talks are by a doctor with many projects abroad on how students and junior doctors can get involved, a woman on her humanitarian work abroad as a junior doctor, and a researcher of astronauts on coping in extreme environments. — 00:04:06
  • ★★ Ali's main takeaway from the expedition medicine talks is that to be a good expedition medic you need to be a good mountaineer, so it is about developing those skills. (hedged) — 00:04:06

00:04:37 — Verdict on the conference, and Poppy who knocks food off plates

00:05:10 — The last two talks, on recovery from a head injury and on decision making, and sign-off

  • ★★ One of the last talks is by a doctor who had a head injury in a snowboarding accident: he revises head injuries and speaks on the philosophy of recovery, quoting the Dalai Lama and French philosophers on taking things as they are. — 00:05:10
  • ★★ The last talk is by a police inspector who does bodyguarding for the royal family and investigated the Manchester bombing; he speaks on models for decision making through a kidnapping case he investigated. — 00:05:37

In the description and comments

  • ★ Ali describes SWMUK (Students Wilderness Medicine UK) as a conference for medical students and paramedics interested in expedition, wilderness and mountain medicine. — video description
  • ★★ 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 · Cambridge University Wilderness Medicine Society
  • ★★ Ali writes that he would now really like to explore wilderness medicine further, and that the SWMUK conference was a really eye-opening experience. — video description

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