RAW Medicine Podcast
1) Episode 17: Wilderness Medical Direction
2) Episode 16: Austere Pain Management with Mike Lauria, MD
3) Episode 15: US Forest Service EMS
We're joined by Dr. Michelle Curry, the new EMS medical director of the U.S. Forest Service (USFS). As of this episode, the USFS EMS program is just now coming into its own, with a uniform set of poli...Show More
4) Episode 14: A Conversation with Tod Schimelpfenig & David Johnson
On Episode 13, we explored the role of WFR's and challenged some aspects of the way they're educated and regulated (or not). In this episode, Tod Schimelpfenig (recently retired Director of Curriculum...Show More
5) Episode 13: WTF is a WFR?
WFR (Wilderness First Responder) is arguably the nucleus of wilderness medicine education. But what does it really represent- first aid, Basic Life Support, or some kind of hybrid? Where did this curr...Show More
6) Episode 12: WMS & NREMT- An Unexpected Spinal Fusion
7) Episode 11: On Excellence
We talk with Justin "Padj" Padgett, co-founder of Landmark Learning- about the nature of excellence and its nexus with wilderness medicine practice and teaching. Padj has spent his professional life t...Show More
8) Episode 10: COVID-19 In The Wilderness
SARS-CoV-2 is a novel virus at the time of this episode, but there are already some lessons that can be applied to SAR responses involving known or suspected COVID-19 patients. We discuss respiratory ...Show More
9) Episode 9: There Will Be Blood
Trauma care experts Sgt. Max Dodge, TP-C and Maj. Andrew Fisher, PA-C, join us to talk about backcountry bleeding: how to control it, what to do next, and why many of the common teaching points surrou...Show More
10) Episode 8: Online And Outside of the Box
The conventional assumption is that wilderness medicine training requires extensive hands-on practice, but what's a student to do when they want to learn the craft but can't attend a course in person?...Show More