Mountain Medicine Weekend

Hill Walking Events
02 Jul
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The hugely popular BMC/British Mountain Medicine Society Mountain Medicine Weekend takes place every year in Hathersage, Peak District.

Where and when?

Saturday 10th and Sunday 11th May 2025

Promoting best practice to all mountain users

This event provides mountain first aid teaching from the British Mountain Medicine Society to those who love the outdoors. It is open to novices and anyone who wishes to refresh their knowledge. You might be an volunteer walk leader or a mountain/climbing instructor or guide requiring CPD (Continuing Professional Development), or a regular outdoors person keen to up their skills. All are welcome.

Ticket prices

TBC

SATURDAY PROGRAMME

The weekend will start with a Primary Survey session which all attendees will take. You will then have free choice of four of the following sessions:

• Altitude and acclimatisation

• AMS/HAPE/HACE and PAC bags

• Frostbite

• Hypothermia

• Avalanche medicine

• Hand injuries in climbers

• Children and mountains

• Women in the mountains

• Multiple injured casualty

• Disabilities in the mountains

• Mountaineering with co-existing conditions (General)

• Mountaineering with co-existing conditions (Diabetes)

SUNDAY PROGRAMME

On Sunday you will have free choice of any 5 of the following sessions:

• First aid kits

• Soft tissue wounds

• Limb splintage

• Ticks & Lyme disease

• Hyperthermia and dehydration

• Water purification

• Personal mental health first aid

• Expedition dentistry

• Dealing with death in the mountains

• CPR in the mountains

• Improvised carries

• Meet the team: Mountain Rescue

• Dogs in the mountains

CPD points are available for members of MTA, AMI, BAIML, BMG

Terms & Conditions

Places on BMC workshops are not guaranteed until payment has been received. Places are also limited, so please book early to avoid disappointment.

A certificate of attendance will be offered to all attendees, but no formal qualification will be given.

Cancellations within 14 days of the course starting will not be eligible for a refund.

Cancellations 15-28 days prior to the course starting will get a 50% refund.

Cancellations more than 28 days prior to the course starting get a full refund.

If the course is cancelled by the BMC & BMMS a full refund will be offered.

Read our report from the 2022 Mountain Medicine Weekend

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