You must register for CAWM2025 before or while registering for any workshops or social events.
In order to receive CME you must register at the Professional or Physican level.
Join us on Friday November 1st at 18:00 at The Lower Deck (1887 Upper Water St., Halifax NS, B3J 1S9) for an evening of food, drinks, and fun! This is a FREE event and food/drinks can be purchased at the restaurant.
**Please note: minors (under 19 years of age) are not permitted in the restaurant after 8:30pm**
In order to register for a workshop you must either already have CAWM2025 Registration in your cart, or be logged in as someone already registered for CAWM2025
Join us Saturday afternoon for Choose Your Own Adventure: CAWM2025 Edition!
CAWM2025 attendees will have the opportunity to tailor their Saturday afternoon conference experience.
Choose between an exciting selection of workshops or choose informative interactive talks in the main conference theatre, or do both!
Sign up for a single workshop or multiple, take time to network with fellow conference attendees, or join us in the main conference room for our panel discussions.
Instructors: Alana Hawley, Raz Peel, Alec Ritchie, and Kendra Young
Date: October 1-2, 2025
Max Participants: 24
Registration Opening Soon
Advanced Wilderness Life Support™ is a 16 hour (2 day) certification course intended exclusively for medical professionals. The course curriculum attempts to strike a balance between didactic lectures and hands-on instruction to most effectively train students in managing medical situations in the remote context. Course topics include professional wilderness management of hypothermia and cold injury, avalanche, altitude related problems, patient packaging & evacuation, medical problems, submersion injuries, lightning strikes, wound and musculoskeletal injury, wilderness medical kits, as well as sessions on basic survival and search and rescue fundamentals.
$210.00 ($210.00 + tax)
Leader: Cyril Shokoples/Rescue Dynamics
Price: $210
Dates: Oct 1-2, full days
Max number of registrants: 8
Description: This pre-conference workshop is a hands-on experience learning and using a “shared-tension” two-rope system to extricate a simulated patient from a technical climbing situation. The first day will be spent practicing rappelling and the use of modern force-limiting descent control devices to raise and lower subjects. The second day will involve one of two scenarios depending upon weather, group size and group ability. Scenario One would have a small team climb up to an injured subject on a simple rock climb, provide patient care, package the patient as indicated and extricate them from their place of predicament. Scenario Two would have the group approach from the top of a small cliff face (that does not require any technical climbing) and execute a mid-face pick-off and/or raise using the techniques learned on the first day. Prerequisites: ability to follow on a 5.6 rock climb in typical autumn weather (potentially cold). Attendees will be required to bring suitable warm clothing, rock shoes, CE approved helmet and harness in good condition. (Local rental available.) All other technical equipment will be provided.
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This workshop is registered for separately through the Prairie POCUS website.
Instructor: Prairie POCUS
Date: Oct 2, 2025
Time: 0730-1730
Cost: $800
EDE Core is an intense 1-day hands-on workshop is designed for participants to complete the practical training component of their introductory course in point-of-care ultrasound.
An online mandatory precourse must be completed before the course day so we can focus on maximum time at bedside with hands-on probe training. It is suggested to schedule a minimum of 10 hours to complete the precourse.
In this course, we will cover point-of-care detection of;
Please note that this course will NOT cover Intrauterine Pregnancy – Transvaginal & Transabdominal Detection.
Instructors: Mackenzie Wardle, Lorri Beatty, David Paré, Brett Shaw, Craig McArthur, and Bryan Weber
Date: October 2, 2025
Registration Opening Soon
Advanced Airway Management in the austere environment is a high acuity low occurrence event surrounded by compounding challenges of environment, team dynamics, equipment limitations and significant transportation logistics. These can be unanticipated occurrences with sudden onset. All these can lead to challenges for the Advanced Life Support provider. Participants will develop enhanced skills for managing airways in the austere environment.
$0.00 ($0.00 + tax)
Leader: Stephanie Smith, MD, CCFP-EM, BN
Price: FREE, available for virtual attendees
Max number of registrants: Unlimited
Description:
The CALM in CHAOS Workshop is expertly designed to equip participants with a comprehensive toolkit of skills to effectively navigate stressful situations. Participants will engage in immersive practical simulations, including high-fidelity simulation and role-playing exercises, to prepare for real-world exposure to challenging environments. Following these hands-on experiences, we incorporate a “START” check-in and decompression process to reflect on learning outcomes and support emotional well-being.
This workshop emphasizes the essential skills required for responders operating in high-pressure situations, ensuring they are well-prepared to lead teams across various challenges. Our focus is on transforming the experience from merely surviving to truly thriving, fostering resilience and confidence in leadership under duress. Participants will leave feeling empowered and equipped to handle any situation with composure and effectiveness through the application of the CALM leadership approach.
At the end of this session, participants will be able to:
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$0.00 ($0.00 + tax)
Leader: James Dahmer
Price: FREE, available for virtual attendees
Max number of registrants: Unlimited
Description:
Medical practice prides itself in three distinct ways: delivery to definitive care (the golden hour), “if at first do no harm”, and the standard of care. In function, medicine exemplifies itself much more like an experiment of attempts to meet those goals, than actually attaining them. The reasons for that is somewhat out of our control, but not exclusively. I’d like to offer a comparison from a few case studies (actual and fictional) where patient outcomes could be altered if a pragmatic approach is explored in how we conduct medicine in austerity.
At the end of this session, participants will be able to:
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$0.00 ($0.00 + tax)
Leader: Alexander Poole, MD, FRCSC, DiMM
Price: FREE, available for virtual attendees
Max number of registrants: Unlimited
Description:
Multiple Frostbite cases will be discussed in an interactive fashion. Images of all Cauchy grades will be presented as attendees discuss prognosis and treatment. Long-term follow up outcomes will be available for selected cases.
At the end of this session, participants will be able to:
Leader: Alexander Poole, MD, FRCSC, DiMM
Price: FREE, available for virtual attendees
Max number of registrants: Unlimited
Description:
Multiple Frostbite cases will be discussed in an interactive fashion. Images of all Cauchy grades will be presented as attendees discuss prognosis and treatment. Long-term follow up outcomes will be available for selected cases.
At the end of this session, participants will be able to:
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$20.00 ($20.00 + tax)
Leader: Adam Cooper, BScN, RN
Price: $20
Max number of registrants: 24, In-Person only
Description:
This workshop focuses on the recognition and management of life-threatening hemorrhage that is not treatable with conventional strap style tourniquets. We will focus on how to systematically assess a casualty for massive bleeds, use direct and indirect pressure to help control bleeding emergencies, pack wounds and apply junctional tourniquets, focusing on the abdominal aortic junctional tourniquet (AAJT) and SAM junctional tourniquet.
At the end of this session, participants will be able to:
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$40.00 ($40.00 + tax)
Leader: Katheryn Welsman, DVM
Price: $40
Max number of registrants: 24, In-Person only
Description:
In this work shop, geared towards working dog handlers or medical staff working in conjunction with dog handlers, topics such as environmental emergencies, surgical emergencies, care under fire/or unsafe conditions,, massive hemorrhage control, airway control, chest trauma management and CPR will be discussed. Restraint, vital signs, medical assessments and field sedation will also be discussed. There may be an opportunity to sedate live dogs (my personal dogs) and attempt IV catheter placement for trained human medical staff.
At the end of this session, participants will be able to:
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$25.00 ($25.00 + tax)
Leader: Cyril Shokoples
Price: $25
Max number of registrants: 24, In-Person only
Description:
This workshop will introduce the Cunningham, Stimson and Boss-Holzach-Matter Shoulder Dislocation Reduction Techniques for use in prehospital wilderness settings.
At the end of this session, participants will be able to:
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$25.00 ($25.00 + tax)
Leader: Peter Symons, ACP
Price: $25
Max number of registrants: 24, In-Person only
Description:
This workshop will focus on Improvised splinting in the backcountry. Basic splinting and in particular improvised splinting is a skill that many advanced care practitioners have struggled with over the years relying on analgesic medication and rapid ground or helicopter evacuation. This workshop will look at the situations where rapid evacuation is not possible and situations where the patient may need to assist in their own evacuation or movement to a more suitable rescue point.
At the end of this session, participants will be able to:
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$20.00 ($20.00 + tax)
Leader: Miles Randell
Price: $20
Max number of registrants: 24, In-Person only
Description:
This workshop will simulate a mountain biking accident in a remote setting including skill levels from first aid to critical care, discuss the priorities and challenges of high acuity poly trauma patient in the austere environment.
From initial first aid, to chest injury and airway management, hypothermia management, fracture management, pharmacological interventions, transport and outcomes.
TOPICS COVERED: Scene safety concerns, Presenting medical concerns, Trauma/hemorrhage control, Hypothermia management, Chest injury management, Airway management, Splinting, IV/IO access, Pharmacology, Packaging, Transport
At the end of this session, participants will be more comfortable:
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Leader: Miles Randell
Price: $20
Max number of registrants: 24, In-Person only
Description:
This workshop will simulate a mountain biking accident in a remote setting including skill levels from first aid to critical care, discuss the priorities and challenges of high acuity poly trauma patient in the austere environment.
From initial first aid, to chest injury and airway management, hypothermia management, fracture management, pharmacological interventions, transport and outcomes.
TOPICS COVERED: Scene safety concerns, Presenting medical concerns, Trauma/hemorrhage control, Hypothermia management, Chest injury management, Airway management, Splinting, IV/IO access, Pharmacology, Packaging, Transport
At the end of this session, participants will be more comfortable:
$30.00 ($30.00 + tax)
Leader: Kevin Palmer, assistant leader: Emma Windfeld
Price: $30
Max number of registrants: 24, In-Person only
Description:
Discuss bear safety when spending time in the Canadian backcountry, including an interactive bear spray deployment scenario.
At the end of this session, participants will be able to:
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