Spring Course 1/2026
Sport climbing course for all ability levels, including focus areas in internal medicine, sports psychiatry, paediatric and adolescent alpinism, travel and tropical medicine, orthopaedics
Sport climbing course for all ability levels, including focus areas in internal medicine, sports psychiatry, paediatric and adolescent alpinism, travel and tropical medicine, orthopaedics
Sun, May 17 – Sat, May 23, 2026
JUFA Hotel, Bruck an der Mur
The International Courses in Alpine Medicine (DIMM) are organised in cooperation with the Alpinärzteschmiede. Registration for the course is via the Alpinärzteschmiede website.
Spring Course 1
Information & programme
Course ID to follow!
Price: €1,840 excl. accommodation
Alpine medicine seminars
Overview lectures on alpine and high-altitude medicine in the following subject areas:
- Performance physiology in mountaineering and sports medicine (2 hours)
- Mountaineering fitness criteria from an internal medicine perspective (3 hours)
- Mountaineering with pre-existing internal medical conditions – the ill person in the mountains (3 hours)
- Internal medical emergencies in the mountains (1 hour)
- Fatigue, exhaustion, physiological survival strategies in the mountains (1 hour)
- Alpine travel medicine (1 hour)
- Physiology and medicine of moderate, high and extreme altitudes (7 hours)
- Modern high-altitude mountaineering (2 hours)
Practical alpine medicine exercises
- Initial care at the accident site
- Improvised mountain rescue techniques and evacuation in difficult terrain
Mountaineering training
Teaching knowledge and skills in easy to moderately difficult rock climbing by learning and/or improving mountaineering technique and personal ability; for particularly interested and/or capable participants, the aim may be to safely complete an ascent of medium length (approx. 300 m of elevation gain) up to grade IV in an independent rope team.
Spring Course 1
Course director
Mag. phil. Reinhard Pühringer PhD
Profile
- Sports scientist (PhD)
- State-certified mountain and ski guide
- Ski and cross-country ski instructor
- State-certified coach
- Owner of a travel agency business
- Professional photographer
- Organic farmer
Publications
Age-Dependent Health Status and Cardiorespiratory Fitness in Austrian Military Mountain Guides
Reinhard Puehringer 1 2 , Martin Berger 3 , Michael Said 3 , Martin Burtscher 1 2
Affiliations expand
PMID: 32757956 DOI: 10.1089/ham.2020.0092
Association Between Ferritin Levels and Altitude-Dependent Cardiorespiratory Fitness in Mountain Guides.
Pühringer R, Muckenthaler M, Burtscher M.
High Alt Med Biol. 2023 Jun;24(2):139-143. doi: 10.1089/ham.2023.0016. Epub 2023 May 3.
PMID: 37134197
Does Moderate Altitude Affect VO2max in Acclimatized Mountain Guides?
Pühringer R, Gatterer H, Berger M, Said M, Faulhaber M, Burtscher M.
High Alt Med Biol. 2022 Mar;23(1):37-42. doi: 10.1089/ham.2021.0081. Epub 2021 Dec 20.
PMID: 34939827
Prim. PD Dr. Peter Paal MBA PM.ME EDAIC EDIC ESRA-DRA FERC
Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine
Hospital of the Brothers of Mercy Salzburg
Kajetanerplatz 1
A-5010 Salzburg
Profile
- Specialist in anaesthesia and intensive care medicine
- President, Austrian Board for Alpine Safety
- Scientific Director, ICAR MEDCOM
- UIAA MEDCOM
- BRD in the AVS
Alpine medicine focus areas and research
- Accidental hypothermia and avalanche
- Alpine emergency medicine
- Accident research and prevention
- Extreme environments