I am delighted to introduce a new feature of Wilderness & Environmental Medicine that we call WEM Live. In a nutshell, this is a live journal club on select papers from the pending journal issue, generally with an author of the work providing a brief summary and then fielding questions from a live audience. The live version will then be edited and packaged into a podcast that will be available to all, with the option to gain continuing medical education credit by Wilderness Medical Society members. WEM Live will be headed up by our new media section editor, Dr Jeremy Joslin, who has done a fantastic job pulling this new feature together. The first edition of the podcast was associated with the previous journal issue. All podcasts can be accessed via the Wilderness & Environmental Medicine website.
My hope is that WEM Live will bring further attention to our journal, be a useful resource for Society members, and serve as an educational tool for wilderness fellowship programs in which the critical mass needed to hold a typical journal club does not generally exist. I hope you enjoy this new feature of our journal.
I also want to alert you to Viewpoints, a new article category for our journal. Viewpoints are debate-format articles that will be solicited and written by experts who have legitimate differing views on a topic pertinent to our readers. I think this type of article format will be informative and interesting for our readers and fun for the authors, and may even generate some common ground on some controversial issues. And, at least when common ground is not reached, the support for both sides will be laid out so you can decide for yourself what to think. Please let me know if you have an idea for an appropriate topic for Viewpoints. I hope you enjoy the first of this type of article in this issue.