Wilderness Medicine Fellowship

Up To The Challenge of Providing Medical Care in Remote And Austere Environments?

When help is miles, or days, away, you should know how to treat altitude illness, cold- and heat-related illness, trauma, wild animal attacks, and other illnesses and injuries sustained in the wild. As a fellow in our wilderness medicine program, you will learn and be prepared to administer care for a number of conditions and illnesses with limited supplies, often in extreme environments.

Diverse Wilderness Training Opportunities

Our wilderness medicine faculty and fellows learn outdoor skills and clinical wilderness medicine, and achieve personal growth through a variety of mountaineering and wilderness adventures in association with several organizations.

• Advanced Wilderness Life Support (AWLS)
• WildMed Adventures CME and Wilderness Education
• Swift Water Rescue
• Search and Rescue
• National Ski Patrol
• Diploma in Mountain Medicine
• PADI SCUBA training
• AIARE Avalanche Training
• Himalayan Rescue Association
• Domestic and international conferences

Our curriculum provides details about goals, core content, and optional activities.

Become A Leader In Wilderness Medicine

As a fellow, you'll be highly involved in teaching medical students, residents and EMS personnel, as well as local search and rescue teams.

Through educational meetings, lectures, conferences, field work, travel, and clinical shifts in a busy Level-I Adult/Level-II Pediatric Trauma Center, you will graduate with the knowledge, skills, and leadership abilities required to manage emergency medical care in any environment.

We hope you consider our program during your application process. Please reach out to us with any questions.

Program-at-a-glance

The Wilderness Medicine fellowship at UMass Chan Medical School-Baystate was established in 2012. Our Wilderness Medicine program is one of only a handful of such fellowships.

Baystate Medical Center is a prime location for wilderness medicine training. You will hone your emergency medicine skills in the busiest Level I trauma center/emergency department in Massachusetts with 115,000+ patients annually. As the region's tertiary care referral center, Baystate offers exposure to diverse pathology and the procedures and techniques associated with the world's most advanced medical centers.

When not working clinically, local backcountry experiences await just outside your back door. Nestled in the eastern Berkshires, you are minutes away from rivers, lakes, mountains, and some of the best hiking and skiing on the east coast. Nearby airports make travel to distant locations convenient.

We hope to recruit enthusiastic fellows whose interests are in providing excellent medical care while traveling and enjoying many of the most amazing places in the world. Please contact us with any further questions about our program, and check out our Instagram page.