The Office of Wilderness Medicine serves as a premier resource for Wilderness Medicine Training of medical professionals and lay persons in Alabama and the Southeast.  The office offers a Wilderness Medicine Educational Track in which interested EM residents may gain additional training and experience in the field.  It allows residents the opportunity to align their educational interests, scholarly research and administrative projects within the field of Wilderness Medicine.  Gaining significant additional training and experience in the field, these residents will have the opportunity to work towards Fellowship in the Academy of Wilderness Medicine offered by the Wilderness Medical Society.  Research, community outreach, medical student education, and Advanced Wilderness Life Support programs are all within the purview of the Office.  The Wilderness Medicine program is directed by Walter Schrading, MD, FACEP, FAWM who has extensive experience teaching in the field.

Recent Publications

1. Drew J, Battaglioli N, Schrading W: Core Content for Wilderness Medicine Training: Development of a Wilderness Medicine Track within an Emergency Medicine Residency; Wilderness and Environmental Medicine 27 (3), 2016 S426-427
2. Schrading W, Battaglioli N, Drew J, McClure: Core Content for Wilderness Medicine Training: Development of a Wilderness Medicine Track within an Emergency Medicine Residency; Wilderness and Environmental Medicine, 29, 2018 79-84 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wem.2017.10.003
3. Jordan T, Meyers C, Schrading W, Donnelly J: The Utility of Three iPhone Apps: A Comparison with Standard Pulse Oximetry in the Emergency Department with Implications for Use in an Austere Environment. AJEM, 38(5) 2020, p925-928
4. Schrading W, McCafferty B, Grove J, Page D: Portable, consumer‐grade pulse oximeters are accurate for home and medical use: Implications for use in the COVID‐19 pandemic and other resource‐limited environments, JACEP Open. 10/20/20, doi https://doi.org/10.1002/emp2.12292
5. Schrading W, Page D: Portable, Consumer-grade Pulse Oximeters are Accurate for Home and Medical Use: Implications for their Use in COVID-19 Patients, Ann Am Thoracic Soc 2/21/2021. https://www.atsjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1513/AnnalsATS.202012-1555LE
6. Monaco MD, Grove JJ, Beckedorf J, Schrading WA. Evaluating the Content and Quality of Emergency Medical Services Oral Patient Handoff Reports. J Coll Emerg Med Serv. 2021; 4(2): 16-21. https://doi.org/10.30542/JCEMS.2021.04.02.03 

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