BRAM Wilderness Medicine Externship Program
About our Externship
Blue Ridge Adventure Medicine is pleased to announce that we have launched an Externship in Wilderness Medicine. This program closely follows the curriculum requirements of other academic Wilderness Medicine programs. However, there is not an in person clinical obligation.
Our vision is to provide opportunities for post graduate medical providers (NP’s, PA’s and physicians) to develop their knowledge about wilderness and austere medicine, while remaining primarily at their home base.
If you are interested in more information please contact:
Amy Meredith or Cathy Edson
Our Current Externs
Cate Mahon, PA-C
Cate graduated from Shenandoah University in 2018. She completed her fellowship in Emergency Medicine at Carilion Clinic in Roanoke, VA where she was formally introduced to wilderness medicine. During her time in Roanoke, she completed WFA and AWLS, was introduced to SWR, SAR and technical rigging and rescue, and assisted in instruction of WFA to local community health workers in Peru in addition to participating in a multi-day trek at elevation. She currently works as a PA at Regions Emergency Department in St. Paul, MN where she is re-integrating into the Midwest with trips to the Boundary Waters, cross-country skiing, and ice climbing. Passionate about integrating her interests in the outdoors with emergency medicine and education, she is part of the first cohort of the BRAM Wilderness Externship; currently working on completing her FAWM, and hoping to complete her DiMM in the next few years. She enjoys rock and ice climbing, hiking, running, biking, skiing, and wants to get into more mountaineering.
David Dickinson, MPAS, PA-C
David Dickinson is a BRAM extern and currently working as an urgent care physician assistant at the Littleton Regional Hospital urgent care located at the doorstep to the White Mountain National Forest in Lincoln, New Hampshire. He completed his undergraduate degree at the University of Rhode Island and his graduate degree at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences. In his 15 years as a physician assistant, he worked previously in neurology and emergency medicine before settling into his current position. As part of the BRAM externship program he hopes to pursue his FAWM as well as focus on broadening his outdoor educating skills. A lifelong lover of the outdoors, David can be found hiking all over the White Mountains with his trusty corgi, Scout. Given his clinic’s proximity to the Whites and the Appalachian Trail, he has a professional interest in the ailments that affect long distance and day hikers alike.