The questions we're asked most often about accreditation, who the programmes are for, and what to expect on expedition. Can't find what you're after — just ask.
Not formally — not yet. Every expedition's clinical programme is mapped against the ACEM and ACRRM CPD frameworks, so the content, hours and documentation are built to satisfy their requirements, and a formal ACRRM accreditation application is currently pending.
Because the mapping follows established CPD structures, it's likely to satisfy other colleges' requirements too — but if you're not ACEM or ACRRM, it's worth checking with your own college before relying on it. Either way, you'll receive a CPD certificate and full activity log at the end of the programme so you can self-submit.
Clinicians across the acute and frontline spectrum — anyone who regularly makes high-stakes decisions, works in resource-limited environments, or manages undifferentiated sick patients. In practice that means rural and remote GPs, anaesthetic and intensive care consultants, prehospital and retrieval practitioners (doctors and paramedics), senior emergency and critical care nurses, and registrars in the final years of acute specialty training.
The mix is deliberate — a rural GP, a retrieval paramedic and an ICU consultant looking at the same case bring genuinely different perspectives, and that tension is where the best learning happens.
Every current expedition carries 20+ hours of high-level CPD, delivered as small-group evening sessions across the trip — case discussions, field simulations, short presentations and journal club.
You'll receive a CPD certificate and activity log at the end of the programme to submit to your own college or certifying body.
Professional, IFMGA-certified mountain guides who work in the terrain year-round make the daily route and safety calls on the ground — routes, objectives and go/no-go decisions are all guide-led, based on real-time conditions.
OffChartCPD designs and delivers the clinical programme; the guiding is provided by the local specialist operator running each expedition.
Emergency medicine, anaesthesia, intensive care, prehospital and retrieval medicine, and rural and remote general practice, plus senior emergency and critical care nurses and registrars in the final years of acute specialty training.
Programmes are pitched at senior, practising clinicians — advanced trainees are welcome, but the content assumes clinical fluency.
Snowcat backup covers days the helicopter can't fly. Guides make the daily call based on conditions and snowpack, and the programme is built around that reality rather than treating it as a disruption.
A snowcat day simply becomes a ski day by a different means, and the evening CPD programme runs regardless of what happened on the mountain that day.