Glasgow Wilderness and Extreme Medicine Society

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Welcome to GWEMS!

We're a friendly, student-led society that teach others how to identify and manage pathology found in extreme and austere environments, from mountains to jungles, deserts to tundra and everything inbetween!

04/10/2026

Join us for our next session where we’ll be taking a more in-depth look at airway & breathing problems and interventions.

As usual, 6:30 in the JMS. We’ll see you there! 💚🧡

30/09/2026

Some dates for your calendar! 🗓️

Here are our upcoming sessions for the next 5 weeks, always held at 6:30pm in JMS 639.

No prior GWEMS or medicine experience is ever needed, we’d love to see you along! 🧡💚

28/09/2026

Join us for our next teaching session tomorrow (29th September) in the JMS where we’ll be covering how me assess a patient!

It really is as easy as ABC[DE] 💚🧡

20/09/2026

📣 Taster Session 2026 📣

Whether you’re a fresher or returning to your studies, join us for our taster session in the James McCune Smith building on Tuesday.

We’ll be delivering short, interactive sessions on multiple wilderness medicine topics and then heading to Curlers Rest afterwards. We’d love to see you there.

If you’d like any more information please don’t hesitate to message 💚🧡

14/09/2026

You’ve woken up this morning ready to head to the medic fair, or maybe looking forward to the freshers fair, or our taster session. But you ask yourselves who might I meet today? Who are the mysterious faces behind this society?

Well, wonder no more! 13 of Glasgow University’s finest are ready and raring to go for the 26/27 GWEMS season! 🧡💚

13/09/2026

With September brings a new year of GWEMS, and we are so excited to meet our new members! 💚🧡

We will be at both the medic fair (for 1st year medical students) and the main freshers fair, come and meet us! If you can’t make the fairs or want some more information, don’t hesitate to message us. 📥

Also, keep your eyes peeled for introductions of our new committee and details for our first teaching sessions! 👀

08/06/2026

💚🧡 SIM WEEKEND 2k26 🧡💚

Thanks to everyone who joined us for our simulation weekend in the (Ayrshire) Galápagos Islands to celebrate our good friend Mr Attenborough.

We had a great 2 days of simulations, socials, bonfire games of traitors and a very intense game of rounders around our helipad.

Here’s to the next year of GWEMS!

04/05/2026

WILD TRIALS 2026!

We had an amazing time down in Dartmoor this weekend and our teams did brilliantly treating medical emergencies in Jurassic Park!

We survived over 22 total hours of driving, we fought dinosaurs and we did copious amounts of singing and dance breaks - all round an excellent time!

Thanks so much to and for hosting a great weekend, lots of GWEMS love 💚🧡

31/03/2026

Come along tonight to learn more about managing unwell children! 🧸🧡💚

26/03/2026

🚨 TICKET RELEASE MONDAY 30th March @ 6PM 🚨

Start getting excited for an epic GWEMS trip to the Ayrshire Galapagos in honour of Sir David Attenborough's 100th birthday! Pack your bags and binoculars to observe medics in their natural habitat for simulation weekend 2026 8 - 10th May ⛰️🚑

Tickets will be released via a google form on the Instagram and linktree

For this weekend, purchasing GWEMS membership is required if you have not already! We also recommend that participants have come to a GWEMS session/Intro Weekend before or have A-E experience though it is not a requirement 💚🧡

Any questions, send us a DM 😁

Address

University Of Glasgow
Glasgow

Website

https://www.glasgowunisrc.org/organisation/10145/, https://linktr.ee/gwems

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