MedTreks CME Courses
MedTreks is a high-touch adventure travel company built by medical professionals. We design carefully curated trips with trusted local partners, strong attention to safety and comfort, and a team that’s deeply involved before, during, and after you travel. CME is available on many of our trips, but each experience is designed as a vacation first.
MedTreks CME courses are designed for healthcare professionals who want practical education in wilderness medicine, travel medicine, global health, and austere care. Some courses are blended into MedTreks trips, while others are offered as stand-alone training experiences.
Our goal is to make CME feel useful, engaging, and connected to real-world care. Depending on the course, participants may learn through short discussions, hands-on scenarios, field skills, case studies, or online modules completed before the in-person experience.
Explore the course options below to learn more about which MedTreks CME course may be offered on a specific trip or program.
About MedTreks CME Courses
MedTreks offers CME and CE opportunities across several areas of focus:
International Wilderness Life Support (IWLS)
MedTreks’ signature wilderness and austere medicine course for healthcare professionals. IWLS combines online learning with practical, scenario-based training and may offer up to 28 hours of Category 1 CME.
Global Health & Humanitarian Medicine
A course focused on healthcare delivery in resource-limited settings, humanitarian medicine, travel health, and global health systems. (10 hrs Category 1 CME)
Global Health, Wilderness & Travel Medicine
A blended course that introduces core concepts in travel medicine, wilderness medicine, global health, and field-based care. (12 hrs Category 1 CME)
Wilderness Medicine Skills
A practical course focused on patient assessment, environmental illness, orthopedic injuries, evacuation decision-making, wound care, medical kits, and care in remote settings.
Each trip page lists the specific CME or CE course available for that experience. CME is optional on most MedTreks trips and is designed to fit naturally into the itinerary.
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Wilderness Medicine Skills Course
Global Health & Humanitarian Medicine
Global Health, Wilderness & Travel Medicine
MedTreks CME Courses
Core Topics
Wilderness Medicine Skills Course
Course topics include:
- Patient Assessment in Wilderness Settings
- Improvised Injury Management and Patient Evacuation
- Mountain Medicine: Lightning & Altitude
- Environmental Medicine: Hypothermia & Hyperthermia
- Management of Orthopedic Injuries
- Wound Management in the Wilderness
- Wild Animal Attacks, Bites & Stings
- Medical Kits in Remote & Wilderness Settings
- Water Treatment in Remote & Wilderness Settings
- Whitewater Medicine & Submersion Injury
“The Wilderness Medical Society designates this live activity for a maximum of 10.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s) TM .
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Global Health & Humanitarian CME Course
Course topics include:
- Advances in 21st Century Global Health
- Humanitarian Medicine: Beyond Disaster Relief
- Improving Child and Maternal Health in the Developing World
- Innovations in child and school health. Scaling up cost-effective Public Health interventions
- Travel Medicine & Staying Healthy While Working in Humanitarian Medicine Programs
- New and Innovative Programs Global Health Delivery Programs
“The Wilderness Medical Society designates this live activity for a maximum of 10.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s) TM .
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Global Health, Wilderness & Travel Medicine Course
This course combines all three topics of Global Health, Wilderness & Travel Medicine.
This course is broken into the following three sections. Upon completion of the course, the participants will be able to:
Section1: Travel Medicine Objectives:
- Describe core concepts in travel medicine and how to stay healthy abroad: travel immunization, medical insurance, safety.
- List prevention & treatment of common vector-borne diseases: malaria, dengue, chikungunya.
- Define the basic principles of food precautions & treatment options for traveler’s diarrhea.
- Describe five methods for in-the-field water disinfection.
- Discuss the core components of a backcountry/expedition medical kit .
Section 2: Wilderness Medicine Objectives:
- Describe prevention & treatment of heat and cold related injuries: hyperthermia disorders, primary and secondary hypothermia, frostbite, and non-freezing cold injuries.
- Understand the pathophysiology of acute mountain sickness, high altitude pulmonary edema and high-altitude cerebral edema, and current concepts for various prevention and treatment options.
- Discuss the prevention and treatment current concepts for lightning injuries.
Section 3: Global Health Objectives:
- Outline core concepts in providing effective and efficient global health and humanitarian medical assistance in resource limited settings.
- Understand the medical advances in 21st Century global health.
- Learn how to identify, evaluate and select medical volunteering positions in the developing world.
- Explain how population growth and global warming effect the health of developing world populations.
“The Wilderness Medical Society designates this live activity for a maximum of 12.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s) TM .
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Faculty Disclosure
The faculty and staff involved with this live activity have signed disclosure statements indicating they have no conflicts of interest or relevant financial relationships with any commercial interest with respect to this course content.
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IWLS (International Wilderness Life Support)
Wilderness First Aid (WFA)
Wilderness First Responder (WFR)
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Physician (MD/DO) & Advanced Practitioners (NP/PA) CME
“This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of the Wilderness Medical Society (WMS) and MedTreks International. The WMS is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.”
“The Wilderness Medical Society designates this activity for a maximum of 10–28 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™ depending on the course taught. Each physician should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.”
All education content presented in this activity has been reviewed and validated as appropriate in keeping with sound scientific principles.
Nursing Continuing Education
All of our courses are approved for nursing continuing education. Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider #CEP16597, for 10–28 contact hours, depending on the course taught.
Faculty Disclosure
The faculty and staff involved with this activity have signed disclosure statements indicating they have no conflicts of interest or relevant financial relationships with any commercial interest with respect to this course content.
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