Upcoming talks:
Diving Medicine
Join us on the 30th of November
Dr Ash Sithirapathy from the Peninsula Foundation school will be talking about Diving medicine emergencies and working at the DDRC dive chamber.
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Dr Sithirapathy:
I graduated from King’s in 2022 and am currently working at the DDRC Dive Chamber in Plymouth as a community placement as part of my FY2. I have an interest in pursuing Wilderness and Expedition Medicine and took part in the KCLWMS Training Course whilst I was at King’s - the talk will be about diving emergencies including Decompression Illness and Arterial Gas Embolism as well as some info on the jobs and opportunities available at DDRC for doctors/students who are interested in Dive Medicine.
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Open to all KCLWMS Members
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£1 on the door for non KCLWMS members.
Please follow this link to sign up
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/14-zPEFZSVkFxSlzKlTrx4v9fKIguR6oW0OVgR-UbOT8/edit
Please follow this link to become a KCLWMS member: Click here
Or https://www.kclsu.org/organisation/7779/
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Previous talks
SEEING THE STARS ON EXPEDITION
Join us on the 20th of October for the first talk of the new academic year with Dr Shona Maine! Zoom link will be posted closer to the time.
Event details:
The talk will comprise a brief introduction on Shona's route into expedition medicine followed by a trauma case from a recent trip. All aspects of the trauma management will be addressed not just the medical considerations. At the end of the talk expect some advice on how to make yourself competitive for work in the expedition field!
Speaker bio:
Dr Shona Maine is an emergency and expedition doctor based on the South Coast of the UK. Having both led and been the doctor on expeditions she’s spent time in the mountains, jungle, desert and at sea. Faculty on expedition training courses and a writer and editor for Adventure Medic she’s navigating being back in training while still adventuring.
Free for members.
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Link to the Facebook event:
MOUNTAIN RESCUE CASUALTY CARE
+ THE UNDERGRADUATE MEDICAL ELECTIVE
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DR NEIL CHAPMAN
Thursday 27th February 2020
4:00 - 5:30pm
Room 1.67, Franklin Wilkins Building, Waterloo Campus, King's College London
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Dr. Neil Chapman is a Senior University Teacher at the University of Sheffield Medical School. Neil’s academic work focussed on understanding gene regulation in the human uterus during pregnancy and how this may change inappropriately giving rise to premature birth of the infant. Neil was also a member of Edale Mountain Rescue Team for twelve years, serving as vehicle officer, deputy team leader and team leader; he attended ~600 callouts in that period. During that time he developed a medical elective programme (Mountain Rescue Casualty Care and the Undergraduate Medical Elective) that allowed medical students the opportunity to train with the team for six weeks. He resigned from the team in 2018. Neil’s talk will give an overview of his experiences from mountain rescue.
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SOLD OUT​
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CANCELLED: THE SCIENCE OF SURVIVAL
THE REMARKABLE STORY OF ONE OF THE WORLD'S GREATEST SURVIVORS
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This talk has been cancelled.
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WINGED SCALPEL: A SURGEON AT THE FRONT LINE OF DISASTER
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MR RICHARD VILLAR
This talk has been cancelled.
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