Wilderness and Austere Medicine Fellowship

The practice of wilderness and austere medicine is an exciting and increasingly popular field requiring a unique skill set built on knowledge and experience combined with strong leadership and teamwork skills. The Wilderness and Austere Medicine (WAM) Fellowship is designed to create world leaders who provide high-quality health care in resource-limited settings. A WAM fellow is truly prepared to treat anyone, anything, anytime, and, most importantly, anywhere.

As one of the only tertiary medical centers in a rural, mountainous region, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center provides an ideal setting for wilderness and austere medical training. Our fellows are ideally situated to make a lasting impact on the public health and safety of patients in austere settings for our local community, the greater New England region, and the world.

The fellowship is a rigorous and enriching year-long experience designed to create outstanding clinical skills and develop the fellow’s leadership capacity. Our fellows will have the opportunity to provide medical direction to many of the wilderness oriented organizations in our region including the Appalachian Mountain Club, the Dartmouth Outing Club, the Dartmouth Skiway, and the Upper Valley Wilderness Response team which will provide them with the foundation for a career in wilderness medicine leadership positions.