The 2004 Rocky Mountain Wilderness Conference will be from June 21 to July 2 next summer in Idaho. The conference includes a continuing medical education course that will provide an interactive and hands-on experience for physicians, medical students, nurses, paramedics, and emergency medical technicians. The conference also will provide a two-week elective for medical students through the University of Washington.

Rob Hilvers, a 1997 UW medical alumnus and a UW clinical instructor in the Family Practice Residency of Idaho, is chairing the conference.

The conference is divided into Parts I and II.

Part I, to be held in Boise during the first week, is a four-day CME offering, encompassing both didactics and hands-on workshops.

Part II, limited to 60 medical students, is an intensive, first-hand wilderness experience. Participants will be divided into groups of 20 and will rotate through three different two-day sessions consisting of swift water rescue, mountain medicine, and desert medicine.

The swift water rescue session will be on the middle fork of the Payette River. Some of the mountain medicine course sites being considered are Bogus Basin, Banner Ridge Summit, Sawtooth Mountains/Stanley, and McCall. The possible desert medicine course sites are Snake River Canyon, City of Rocks, or the Owyhee Mountains, all of which are in Southern Idaho.

Registration materials will be available in October or November.

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