CoROM cast. Wilderness, Austere, Remote and Resource-limited Medicine.

Aebhric and Dr Gara do a deep dive into FOU specifically for work in austere environments.

Aebhric talks with Rhod Jordan about teaching in remote and austere environments and teaching those who will be working in these difficult areas. They discuss tricks and tips for medics who are just starting out on their teaching adventure.

Aebhric talks with Teija Pietiläinen from Finland, who has worked for the ICRC in austere environments as a nurse for many years. She talks about her recent experiences in Sudan. She also talks about the ICARE course she took in Malta last summer.

Dr Winston de Mello and Aebhric discuss severe TBI and how to deal with this whilst deployed in austere environments.

John Clark has stepped into the leadership role within the College. Aebhric has stepped down into an advisory role. They chat about the long history between them and the collaboration between the IBSC and CoROM. They will have a joint exhibition table during the Special Operations Medical Association conference in May. Why not stop by and say hello and congratulate John on his new position?

Tim Cranton talks with Jennifer White who is the Medical Officer onboard the Picton Castle, a Sail Training Vessel, which is a 3 masted Tall Ship. She is one of our REMT students who has decided to get back to the basics.

Aebhric talks with CoROM faculty who taught the Austere Emergency Care course in Norway in March. Tim Cranton, Patrick Wenger and Dr Tom Mallinson have earned their AEC instructor rating. Eirik Holmstrom earned the Course Coordinator rating. And Aebhric is the first Course Director located in Europe.

Aebhric and Winston discuss current updates about catastrophic bleeding and massive haemorrhage.

Tim chats with Dr Tom Mallinson and Patrick Wenger about their clinical practice and the courage to make the right decisions. Tom works as a BASICs prehospital doctor in rural Scotland. Patrick is a master's level paramedic who works on the Air Zermatt medical team. Both have years of experience to draw from as they discuss some difficult decisions that they have had to make in their clinical practice. 

Sam Coffman Bio Sam Coffman (RH[AHG], MSAOM) began his medical education in the military as a U.S. Special Forces Medic (aka Green Beret medic) in 1989. Prior to this six-year duty as a special forces medic he had already become highly interested in herbalism as a method to provide health care in remote regions with limited medical supplies, and he was able to use much of his special forces medic training to uniquely integrate the infrastructure and needs of field medicine with his own growing brand of herbalism that focused on effectively working with as many as 100 people per day in underserved or remote area herbal clinics, while also addressing community needs such as clean drinking water, food and medicine sustainability and first aid education. Over the next 30 years, Sam’s goal became the creation of an integrative medical model that embraces aspects of western, eastern and local bioregional herbalism into a collaborative infrastructure with orthodox western medicine. In 2007, Sam founded a school (The Human Path, AKA Herbal Medics Academy) that offers both online and on-site education in Texas and New Mexico. Today, with nearly 20 faculty members at Herbal Medics Academy, whose experience span professions from medical doctors and nurse practitioners to midwives and clinical herbalists, Sam and his wife Suchil have developed and managed four main programs. These programs are: Austere Medicine, Clinical Herbalism, Advanced Medicine Making (Apothecarist) and Family Herbalism - which includes doula certification and emergency birth training. As a part of the Austere Medicine Program Sam also teaches Wilderness First Aid and Wilderness First Responder certification as well as a more advanced wilderness medicine courses that also includes setting up and managing medical infrastructure in remote, post-disaster and austere environments. Since moving during the summer of 2022 to the Taos, NM region, Sam is currently setting up the new Taos HMA campus and full-time clinic while prepping for board exams in order to obtain his NM acupuncture license and writing his next book for Storey publishing (“Survival Gardening”). Sam’s current book “Herbal Medic” is in print and was a #1 Amazon best-seller in the Emergency Medicine and First Aid categories for over 9 months.