Extreme Medicine (Distance)

Within this Extreme Medicine (Distance) MSc degree fromThe University of Exeter you'll:

• Experience medicine at its best, crossing geographical and professional boundaries

• You will be challenged to think critically around the concepts for delivering care in challenging environments

• You can choose to undertake a specialism in Cold Environments, Hot Environments or Humanitarian Relief

• You’ll learn how to make the exceptional happen, by challenging traditional thinking and defying conventional boundaries

Career opportunities:

Extreme Medicine is an emerging specialty. Graduates of the Extreme Medicine degree from The University of Exeter will enhance their medical skills to practice in challenging and remote environments. They will acquire field based knowledge and skills to demonstrate their strategic understanding of expedition operations, to potential employers and to the wider deployment team.

Potential roles may include:

• Disaster response, working with NGO’s or government contracts

• Medical cover for security operations

• Expedition and wilderness medicine

• Working with media organisations

• Remote research or logistics

Courses include:

• Human Factors - Situational Awareness

• Humanitarian and Disaster Relief - Theory

• Independent Research

• Humanitarian and Disaster Relief - Practical

• Special Environment - Mountain

• Special Environment - Jungle