{"id":466945,"date":"2026-09-17T16:38:47","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T16:38:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/466945\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T16:38:47","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T16:38:47","slug":"ucsf-fresno-hosting-its-wilderness-medicine-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/466945\/","title":{"rendered":"UCSF Fresno hosting its Wilderness Medicine Training"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Medical students are learning what it takes to respond to outdoor emergencies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">UCSF Fresno is hosting its Wilderness Medicine Training.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This is offered to fourth-year medical students as they learn about rescues and life-saving devices like tourniquets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Staff say it&#8217;s important to teach these skills that will help students manage stressful situations they may encounter outside.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8221;They&#8217;re not only life-saving in terms of the procedures that they are learning,&#8221; says Michelle Storkan, M.D. &#8220;For example, tourniquets, splinting, so kind of medical emergencies in the wilderness constitute an immediate evacuation. How to call for an evacuation when you&#8217;re far away, what resources might be at your disposal in coordination with EMS emergency medical services.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Next week, students will take their training outside of the classroom as they head to Yosemite National Park.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Medical students are learning what it takes to respond to outdoor emergencies. UCSF Fresno is hosting its Wilderness&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":466946,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113,162740,183930,183928,183929,38800,183931],"class_list":["post-466945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-medical-students","tag-michelle-storkan","tag-outdoor-emergencies","tag-tourniquets","tag-ucsf-fresno","tag-wilderness-medicine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=466945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}