Featured Job Markets
Our featured job markets are selected because of the breadth and depth of opportunity they offer job seekers, students, and volunteers in wilderness medicine as well as their desirability as places to live. Here you might find a position in a hospital emergency department, as a fireline EMT, on a search and rescue team or urgent care team, on the ski patrol or bike patrol, shadowing a doctor, working for an organization providing low-income health care to a marginalized population, as an ambulance driver or a pre-health, post-bacc student preparing for med school. Some jobs are paid, others unpaid. All will make use of your wilderness medicine skills and support you in making a career in the field. And we add to these features regularly.
Lake Tahoe, California
The Location: Lake Tahoe offers a mountain lifestyle and year-’round outdoor adventure, with world-class skiing and hiking and a breathtakingly beautiful lake at the crux of it all.
Sonora, California
The Location: Roughly halfway between San Francisco and Yosemite, Sonora is relatively warm year-’round, yet 30 minutes from the mountains and a couple of hours from the beach. Several competitive area med schools offer a lower bar to entry for those who will stay in the region.
Crested Butte, Colorado
The Location: If an outdoorsy, true-to-its-roots mountain town 250 miles from the nearest Staples or Planet Fitness is your dream, you’ll want to know about this one, which hosts a special mix of employers, organizations, and education opportunities.
Missoula, Montana
The Location: Missoula, Montana, is uniquely situated as a wilderness medicine hub. In the Northern Rockies, surrounded by the Bitterroot Mountains, Rattlesnake Wilderness, and Lolo National Forest, Missoula is a natural hub for outdoor recreation, backcountry travel, and remote rescue scenarios.
Burlington, Vermont
The Location: The University of Vermont, with its strong wilderness medicine component, sits at the heart of this liberal town at the edge of Lake Champlain, surrounded by mountain ranges and ski areas.