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Medical CommissionA medical service for mountaineers! “I am pregnant, can I continue with mountaineering? Do I need vaccinations before I go trekking in the Andes? How can I prevent altitude sickness? What is the best treatment for hypothermia?” We are here to give mountaineers reliable, easy-to-understand answers to these kinds of questions. We give practical advice and the most up to date recommendations on medical issues in the mountains. To do this, we function as a world-wide forum of doctors who are specialised in the different fields of mountain medicine. The mission of the UIAA Medical Commission is to increase the knowledge about mountain medicine among doctors and mountaineers all over the world. You can download the full text of our mission, objectives and goals. All the members of the commission are doctors specialised in mountain medicine, and we make sure that every year more doctors get this training. We check the quality of the different courses of mountain medicine for doctors and in collaboration with ISMM and CISA/ICAR we have set standards for the International Diploma of Mountain Medicine. In ten countries our members have founded national societies which organise courses in mountain medicine for doctors and mountaineers. You can download a short history of our commission and a list of our members.
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