Theresa Menders is co-author of “Psychological First Aid: Pocket Field Guide”. In this article, she introduces psychological first aid, highlighting its role in providing emotional support during crises. She emphasizes its accessibility, offering practical steps anyone can take to help others manage during both large-scale disasters and personal emergencies.

Dr Kalpanee Wijendra describes her time working with the Tshemba Foundation in rural South Africa.

Dr Ben Dunton is currently working in remote primary and emergency healthcare in Papua New Guinea. The location is popular with adventurous surfers, divers, and billionaires arriving on superyachts. On occasion, they become unstuck and require emergency healthcare. Ben describes a recent case of acute febrile illness in a traveller aboard a superyacht.

Dr Emily Watts tells us about her experience in Cumbria as a Clinical Fellow working in Emergency Medicine with a Special Interest in Pre-Hospital Emergency Medicine. Read on to hear about her work with a local Air Ambulance, Mountain Rescue Team, and more.

In this article, Juan discovers the importance of community whilst volunteering as a medic for Floating Doctors in Panama.

Dr Katharine Ganly shares her experiences and advice from working as a medical officer with the British Antarctic Survery Medical Unit.

Dr Amy Collyer jumped at the opportunity to work in emergency medicine in Zululand, driving 10 hours across South Africa to get there. Here she writes about a 19-hour ‘call’ shift for Adventure Medic, giving an insight into the typical patients, and problems, a rural South African hospital faces.

Dr Rogier Steins / Team Physician elite athletes / General Practitioner / Utrecht, the Netherlands How do you become a team physician? The most common route to become a team physician is to specialise in sports and exercise medicine first. Since 2014 sports medicine is an acknowledged specialisation in the Netherlands. It takes 4 years of specialty training and there […]

Dr Rogier Steins, a general practitioner from Utrecht, recounts his journey from skateboarding to surf-medicine. He takes us through how to become qualified as a surf-medic and shares his experiences of working as a doctor at one of the most remote surf clinics in the world.

Drs Aleksis Martindale and Jonathan Sinclair-Williams describe their experience working as medics for an ultra-marathon in remote Knoydart, on the West Coast of Scotland.