Working in Canada's subarctic: Circumpolar medicine

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Medical practice in Churchill is a challenging and rewarding form of wilderness medicine. If any reader is interested in learning more about Churchill or would like to consider visiting or even taking a health care position here, the following resources and contacts are available: The website for Churchill Independent Travel (www. creighton.edu/~hutchens/church_travel. html) gives a complete list of options for those wishing to plan their own trip. The Arctic Medicine Conference is a medical conference with talks in Zoonoses, Dentistry, Entomology, and Travel Medicine hosted by Wilderness Medicine in Manitoba (www.skylarkmedicalclinic.com). The JA Hildes Northern Medical Unit is responsible for providing qualified physicians and nurse practitioners to staff northern Manitoba. For those who are interested, please contact Michelle Vandenbroeck at 1(204)789-3711 for information in working in Churchill or other parts of the Hudson Bay Inuit communities (www.umanitoba.ca/faculties/medicine/ units/northerm_medical_unit). 1,000 Places to See Before You Die, by Patricia Schultz, is a recent bestseller that gives information about polar bear safaris.