Expedition medicine

Expedition medicine
	Medical equipment used by Robert Falcon Scott on his 1910 Antarctic expedition
Synonym	Expeditionary medicine
Focus	Medical care, planning, and prevention in remote and resource-limited settings
Subdivisions	Travel Medicine; General environmental medicine; Battlefield medicine; High Altitude Medicine; Wilderness Medicine;
Significant diseases	Environmental Illnesses; Altitude sickness; Hypothermia; Frostbite; Heat illness; Trauma and Musculoskeletal Injuries; Trauma; Muscle strain; Sports injuries; Soft tissue injury; Infectious and General Medicine; Travelers' diarrhea; Respiratory tract infection; Wound and Skin Infections; Tropical disease; Envenomation;
Glossary	Glossary of medicine

Expedition Medicine (sometimes known as expeditionary medicine) is the field of medicine focusing on providing embedded medical support to an expedition, usually in medically austere or isolated areas. Expedition medicine provides the physical and psychological wellbeing of expedition members before, during, and after an expedition. Expedition medicine may be practiced in support of commercial, non-governmental organizations, and government expeditions. Some medical governing bodies consider expedition medicine as a field within wilderness medicine, whilst others considered it be a separate discipline.