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The Appalachian Center for Wilderness Medicine (ACWM) is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting wilderness medicine in the southern Appalachian region of the United States of America. Dr. Seth C. Hawkins, an emergency physician who specializes in EMS and wilderness medicine, founded ACWM in 2007 in the state of North Carolina. It is ...
Founder, Appalachian Center for Wilderness Medicine; Founder, Appalachian Mountain Rescue Team; Founder, Carolina Wilderness EMS Externship Seth Christopher Collings Hawkins (born 1971) is an American emergency physician , writer, anthropologist, and organizational innovator.
Wilderness Medicine is popular in medical school communities, and many student groups hold their own Wilderness Medicine Conferences. One of the earliest examples is the Carolina Wilderness Medicine Seminar, organized at UNC-Chapel Hill by medical students Seth C. Hawkins and Jenny Graham in March 1998 [3] and repeated in 2000. [4]
Name Sub-range Type Administrative location Highest point Elevation (meter) Coordinate location Adams Mountain: Blue Ridge Mountains: mountain: Caldwell County, North Carolina
Driving the effort was a desire to see opened for hiking Benton MacKaye's chosen route for his Appalachian mountain trail. MacKaye, Massachusetts forester and co-founder of The Wilderness Society, was the man whose vision inspired what is today the Appalachian Trail. In the south, he had selected a more westerly route, along the western crest ...
In an effort to train a spotlight on the part of the world he’s from, and its joys and sorrows, Brad Paisley is simultaneously releasing two striking new videos, “Son of the Mountains” and ...
The following is a list of subranges within the Appalachian Mountains, a mountain range stretching ~2,050 miles from Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada to Alabama, US. The Appalachians, at their initial formation, were a part of the larger Central Pangean Mountains along with the Scottish Highlands , the Ouachita Mountains , and the Anti-Atlas ...
In June 2011, the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME) placed the School of Medicine on probation for not meeting nine standards in areas including a lack of diversity for students and faculty, lower-than-average scholarship support and higher-than-average student debt, limited programs to promote student well-being, limited advising ...