May WMIG Meeting

We are honored to be joined again by Dr. Greg Davis from the Department of Pathology. We invited him back after his great talk about hypothermia at our February meeting. This month, he will be discussing two topics: the psychological effects of search and rescue on the rescuer and the victim, and hyperthermia. He will also have a Q&A session, so come with questions about wilderness medicine! As usual, lunch is provided. You may want to bring a drink.

Please RSVP by Tuesday (May 19) to Stacey Gutman at slgutm2@uky.edu .

Who: Dr. Greg Davis, Department of Pathology
What: psychological effects of a rescue / hyperthermia
When: Thursday, May 21st at noon
Where: MN-263

An Adventure Race for Medical Professionals!

I came across this website for a very cool looking adventure race series called MedWAR.
http://www.medwar.org/index.htm

As far as I can tell it operates like a regular adventure race with teams that run, bike, canoe, and navigate between waypoints. The only difference is at the checkpoints there are various medical emergency senarios that must be dealt with before moving on. It sounds like something we should definitely check out. The next race "near" us is in Michigan in October.