Students' Wilderness Medicine UK Conference - Cambridge University medical student VLOG #14

hey guys welcome back to the channel we are in some random field in Nottingham and we're here for a three-day wilderness medicine conference thing so we're gonna be camping tonight in tents and then tomorrow we've got like workshops and lectures and like scenarios and things like that so that's gonna be really really fun first thing first we need to set up the tent we need to find the campsite we need to sort our lives out and it's just I draining which is a little bit unfortunate lay out the tents all right guys we're in a tent we're gonna say good night this place is pretty awesome so far everyone seems really friendly and we've got the workshops tomorrow morning and breakfast and like tea and hot chocolate and it's gonna be it's gonna be wonderful we'll see in the morning good night well guys that was quite an invent all night of sleeping in a tent that got more and more wet as the night progressed I was not very comfortable at all but hey we're here now now we've got breakfast and then I think the workshops are going to start as first of all welcome to the conference yeah right really excited to see all really excited to have you guys meet the speakers through the workshops the talks and we've got a few good things lined up as well and don't forget hailing in Afghanistan and we're trying to get on that mindset that we might seen chess dreams you have back valve Marcy with intravenous cannulas in this equipment you'll find them in there we've got to work together to save this cash is his life our hero shell coming in first thing you're thinking is there could be gas so your immediate thing is you take taken it I feel great I've learned a lot gain new skills don't think offbeat in a military environment to practice my skills but hopefully I'll remember them it was really good I like to really stick dummy didn't expect to be stabbing needles into it but that was fun all right we just done a first workshop with the army guys and that was so so fun like they got us in the tent using all the equipment really kind of high-energy pretty intense really got the adrenaline going but it was really really good learned a hell of a lot and we all had a really good time all right guys we just finished our day of lots of talks we had a really nice book shop in the morning and then the job throughout the day which were already inspiring really good there was this lady he was talking about like humanitarian medicine there was this guy talking about aerospace medicine so it's all kind of people doing interesting things with medicine but combining them with other pursuits to carve out cool careers for themselves so that was quite inspiring and now we're just waiting for pizza and we're gonna play some cards chill with the people in the in this big tent it's gonna be great [Music] [Music] we're gonna head back to the play some cards and then have no you know I reckon [Applause] one of guys the final day of the conference we're gonna pack up the tent grab some breakfast and then attend some more talks and workshops before heading back home heading back to Cambridge where it will be warm and dry last night camping of the tent was awesome we made friends with his girl who had this massive tent so he steps on that and we were dry throughout the night which was which was amazing it really makes you appreciate how good a dry night's sleep is when you've been wet for a night but yeah pretty good time [Music] right so we've just had some talks from more people who are into this whole expedition medicine thing the first was from a doctor he's done loads of product abroad and he was talking about how students and junior doctors can get involved with this sort of stuff kind of giving practical tips then we had a lady who's done some like a humanitarian project abroad as a junior doctor talking about her experiences and then we just ended with some guy who's done research on astronauts talking about how to cope under extreme environments main take a message from from these talks seems to be that if you want to be a good expedition medic you need to be a good Mountaineer generally so it's all about developing those skills has been great it's been a bit cold there husband of it a bit wet but worth it we've learned a lot of new skills and heard from your very face I think we've left inspired to take on careers in expedition and wilderness medicine we've met people from loads of different units and forgotten all of their names who was possibly my favorite new friends after conference despite the fact that she was totally pickle she was only ever interested in my friendship when I had pizza in my house she had this amazing hi-5 trick but she learnt a new trick associated with that when people are sitting with plates of food she'd go for a high-five and sneaky knocking down at their food cuz once it's on the floor it's hers Pipo Popi was wonderful but at the same time she was a heartless all right we're in the car had the end of the conference the last two talks we had were really really good there was one from this doctor who had a head injury after a snowboarding accident and he was a giving us some good revision about head injuries and B was kind of talking about the philosophy of recovery so like quotes from the Dalai Lama and from like French philosophers and stuff about kind of just taking things as they are not overly worrying about stuff that was really good and then we had the same guy from yesterday the the badass police inspector guy who does bodyguarding colleague the Royal Family and investigated the Manchester bombing he was talking about models for decision-making and took us through like an example of a kidnapping caper he investigated which was really quite riveting to follow so all in all a great series of talks some fun workshops we've had a wonderful weekend guys yeah all right guys thank you very much for watching if you've enjoyed this video give us a thumbs up below if you haven't subscribed 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