Open AccessCall of the wild: creating a formal wilderness medicine elective for Canadian pre-clerkship medical students
Author(s) -
Geordon Omand,
Katie Gourlay,
Michael Zeeman,
Michael Pietrosanu,
D. Jérôme
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
canadian medical education journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1923-1202
DOI - 10.36834/cmej.75137
Subject(s) - wilderness , curriculum , medical school , humanities , medical education , library science , sociology , medicine , pedagogy , art , ecology , biology , computer science
Wilderness medicine education is interesting to medical students, yet not widely implemented in Canadian medical curricula. We describe a curriculum for a pre-clerkship wilderness medicine elective at a Canadian medical school. Our study reports increased student awareness of career opportunities in wilderness medicine after elective completion, and interest in hands-on learning for wilderness medicine topics. Medical schools may benefit from incorporating feedback from our elective towards a successful wilderness medicine curriculum in their own programs.