Wilderness Medicine Training Effect on Perceived Confidence Practicing in Deployed Environments

Wilderness medicine training is associated with a statistically significant increase in self-reported confidence for providing care in a low-resource deployed setting among military family medicine physicians, including those who have never deployed. These observational findings support the need for more research into whether wilderness medicine training translates to improved patient outcomes in operational settings. More research is needed to determine if there are specific aspects of wilderness medicine training that are more impactful than others and if a similar confidence increase is seen among other specialties with wilderness medicine training.