Special
Interest Groups
WMS encourages active special interest groups such as the
Environmental Council and the Student Interest Groups, both
of whom maintain their own websites and have a representative
liaison on the Board of Directors.
The Environmental Council has focused its energy
on building and maintaining an extensive website, writing
and printing a public service brochure, and developing an
educational lecture and study guide.
http://www.wms.org/interest/ec.asp
The Student Interest Groups (SIGs) have 68 active
groups in the U.S., Canada, and Europe, representing as
many medical schools. All the SIGs share an interest in
wilderness medicine topics and a love of the outdoors. Each
year at the Annual WMS Meeting, the SIGs hold a Student
Round Table where they can discuss and plan how to integrate
wilderness medicine into their careers, encourage research
in wilderness medicine topics and, develop programs for
SIGs, such as the Wilderness Medicine Student Elective,
held this February 2004 in Tennessee.
http://wms.org/studentgroups/sig_web_site/wmssighome.htm
Coalition of Outdoor Medicine Physician Assistants
(COMPAS)
is a special interest group of the American
Academy of Physician Assistants and provides a forum for the
Wilderness Medical Society to help bring physician
assistants together who are passionate about the outdoors.
http://www.wildernessmedicinepa.org.
Discussion Forum is your online networking tool --
member-to- member and members helping members.
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