A National Survey of Wilderness Medicine Curricula in United States Emergency Medicine Residencies

Wilderness medicine (WM) is a growing subspecialty of emergency medicine. In 2018, we surveyed all 240 emergency medicine residencies in the United States to assess the scope of WM education in emergency medicine training programs in light of the nearly 30% increase in the number of residencies sinc...

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Published in:Wilderness & environmental medicine 2021-06, Vol.32 (2), p.187-191
Main Authors: Goldflam, Katja, Coughlin, Ryan F., Cotton Widdicombe, A., Della-Giustina, David
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Curriculum
didactics
education
Emergency Medicine - education
fellowships
Fellowships and Scholarships
Internship and Residency
residents
Surveys and Questionnaires
United States
Wilderness Medicine - education
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Summary:Wilderness medicine (WM) is a growing subspecialty of emergency medicine. In 2018, we surveyed all 240 emergency medicine residencies in the United States to assess the scope of WM education in emergency medicine training programs in light of the nearly 30% increase in the number of residencies since 2015. A survey was e-mailed to the Council of Residency Directors in Emergency Medicine listserv and individual program directors of each of the 240 residencies. The survey included questions on educational content, format, number of hours taught, availability of conference credit, offering of an elective or fellowship, and several predefined WM curricula. We evaluated differences between 3-y and 4-y residencies using the χ2 test, where P
ISSN:1080-6032
1545-1534
DOI:10.1016/j.wem.2021.02.005