Mar272025
CME/CPD Opportunity
Wānaka Mountain Guides in collaboration with Dr Sam Bartholomew FRNZCUC bring you a bespoke mini-medical conference that utilises the unique opportunity to allow a small group to share learning experiences and ideas in the winter backcountry environment relevant to Front Line Medical work. The conference explores risk management and acute medical care both in the winter environment and work place focusing on the lessons we can learn that translate into improving as senior doctors in Urgent Care, Emergency Medicine and Rural Hospital Medicine.

We address topics like our personal wellbeing, how we fit into a changing and developing medical world, how we wish to see it evolve, our ideas, concerns, and expectations as front line medics, critical decision making, and shared reflection.

We focus on peer review, practical sessions/scenarios focused on risk management and short-form presentations with open discussion avoiding long didactic lectures.
We value the fact we are more than doctors and we create an environment that reflects this! It happens we like mountains and the New Zealand backcountry and this is a great environment to develop a sense of community whilst educating each other. We have no medically related sponsors.
Why mini – 4 people. It is a small team based learning environment, in order to maximise learning and quality conversation the event is limited to 4 people. It is recognised that in order to have effective conversations a group size of 4 is ideal.

Key Learning Objectives:

Update on current practices utilising presentation, discussion and practical sessions to achieve this. This will be relevant to Emergency Medicine, Rural Hospital Medicine and Urgent Care.
Develop skills to deal with pre hospital emergency situations and improve critical decision making.
Consider ones own wellbeing and how to maintain it.
Consider and develop ways to manage risk.
Reflect on what we can learn from processes and culture outside of work in order to be better doctors in Emergency Medicine/Rural hospital/Urgent Care settings.
Develop and improve presentation skills utilising short form presentations techniques – each attendee will present.

The conference is focused on SMO peer learning and looking specifically at front line medical care and SMO level Urgent and Emergency care delivery. SMO’s in Urgent Care aim to provide both hi quality patient care but also hi quality leadership, collegial collaboration, junior support, education, improving standards and maintaining personal wellbeing. This conference aims in a small group environment to allow SMO’s working in areas such as Urgent Care to reflect and learn with and from each other, about how to improve and move forwards with their SMO role. The environment, challenges and learning the programme provides, we believe is well suited to Urgent Care SMO’s and achieving the outlined learning objectives.

For full details of the conference please visit https://wanakamountainguides.co.nz/front-line-medical-conference/
Full programme agenda can be seen here: FLM-programme.pdf