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OVERVIEW
Background and Trip Description
UNM Emergency Medicine faculty and staff members
have been involved in clinical and academic work in Nepal for over a decade. Our
main focus has been on collaboration with our Nepali colleagues in assessing
Emergency Medical needs and tailoring development efforts to available
resources. Although changing politics over recent years have made continuity of
some projects difficult or impossible, we continue to work with some of our most
committed colleagues toward improving conditions for the overwhelming number of
patients seeking emergency care, and toward advancing academic medicine in
Nepal.
 This year’s trip will mark a new area of focus – a cooperative educational
effort aimed at introducing physicians from developed countries to the major
issues in medicine, particularly Emergency Medicine, in the developing world,
while bringing much-needed educational resources and focused training to our
colleagues. Affordable, locally sustainable technologies such as ultrasound will
be highlighted, and cooperative, algorithmically-based care protocols will be
adapted to local needs and resources.
 Additionally, we will share some of our
Wilderness and Altitude Medicine expertise, as we trek to the upper glaciated
valleys of the Khumbu/ Everest region, and we’ll get a brief taste of some other
fascinating and exotic medical, cultural, and environmental experiences along
the way.
This experience is primarily geared toward Emergency
Physicians, residents, and medical students. Other health professionals,
particularly with international work experience relevant to Nepal, would also be
welcome. Please respond ASAP, as group size may be llinited and pre-trip
planning will commence in earnest soon. Please send correspondence to Dave
Wachter at:
DWachter@salud.unm.edu
Photos by David
Wachter
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