Selva Alta Course
HIGH MOUNTAIN FOREST AND TROPICAL MEDICINE
NEXT AVAILABLE COURSE
Dartmoor, UK
May 15 - 16, 2025
Cost: £295
Immerse yourself in a two day course in Dartmoor’s own temperate Atlantic rainforest learning about tropical medicine, planetary health and much more.
This course aims to give you an overview of common imported fevers in the UK and will help you to understand the role of the expedition medic in rainforest environments. If you are interested in learning bushcraft skills or if you have found yourself scratching your head trying to understand leishmaniasis or onchocerciasis this is certainly the course for you!
What you will Gain: CPD and beyond
Endeavour courses deliver high-quality teaching in expedition and remote medicine. Teaching is led by experienced professionals in the field. It is immersive, holistic, and flexible to help all attendees meet their personal development goals.
All courses are directly aligned to the professional capabilities set out within UK Foundation Training and postgraduate specialty training curricula. Specifically, all courses cover clinical assessment and prioritisation, address complexity and uncertainty, communication skills, holistic planning, fitness for practice (well-being), ethical and legal principles, health promotion, illness prevention, and leadership.
Endeavour faculty are all familiar with principles of good supervision and training and can complete any work-based assessments undertaken during the course (including CEX and CBD). Reflective practice is also encouraged.
This course offers 10 hours of CPD.
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9:30 Meet at Dewerstone Cottage and introductions
10:00 Introduction to being a Tropical Medicine and Forest expedition medic
10:30 Camp chai break
11:30 Forest trek with workshops:
Camp administration and bushcraft skills
Learn about different larvae, exploring bot flies and more
Explore forest navigation, using machetes to carve your own trailblazing routes
Explore an old tin mining cave searching for local bat populations. Understand the real habitat of bats and discuss histoplasmosis , lyssa and ebola
Explore fungai and their disease manifestations
Practice hazardous river crossings, then use your experience to learnabout water borne diseases like schistosomiasis, leptospirosis and guinea worm
Explore tick habitats while learning about Lyme disease and helminths
Discuss Venomous bites and stings and crucial management
Discover ant hills and learn the intricacies of Super-Ant colonies
Enjoy a bush lunch
15:00 Camp coffee
15:30 Forest ecosystems
16:30 Hammock demonstration
Evening: optional nocturnal insect identification activity
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08:00: Bush Breakfast
08:30: Update: Malaria on the medical take
09:00: Take a look: Tropical Eye diseases
09:30: GI diseases in tropical environments
10:00: Camp coffee
10:30: Snake stomp Venomous bites and sting
11:00: Dengue fever and vector borne illnesses
12:00: Bushcraft Lunch
13:00: Live link to Masanga Hospital in Sierra Leone for an introduction to viral hemorrhagic fever
14:00: M-Pox update
14:30: Course round up
15:00: Depart
COURSE itinerary
Logistics
Dartmoor, UK
15th-16h May 2025
Cost: £295
Spend two days having an overview of common imported fevers in the UK, discover the role of the expedition medic in rainforest environments and learn basic forest bushcraft.
Included:
✔ Course Tuition
✔ Meals from morning of the 15th until breakfast on the 16th
✔ Hammocks and / or bunkhouse accommodation (weather dependent)
Not Included:
𝙓 Travel
𝙓 Personal Kit including sleeping bags
𝙓 Alcohol or additional snacks
*Kit list will be provided with joining instructions upon signing up for the course. Hammocks will be provided but please bring your own outdoor clothing and sleeping bags
Accommodation:
Dewerstone Cottage, Bunkhouse, Dartmoor
You may arrive on the evening of the 14th but no evening meal will be provided
Travel:
Nearest railway station: Plymouth
