Category: Adventures

The Adventures of a Global Health Fellow in Tshemba

The Adventures of a Global Health Fellow in Tshemba

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

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Fever at Sea

Fever at Sea

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.

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Clinical Fellowship Review: Emergency Medicine with Special Interest in Pre-Hospital Emergency Medicine

Clinical Fellowship Review: Emergency Medicine with Special Interest in Pre-Hospital Emergency Medicine

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.

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Floating Doctors in Panama

Floating Doctors in Panama

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

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British Antarctic Survey Medical Officers: a Unique Role in the Polar South

British Antarctic Survey Medical Officers: a Unique Role in the Polar South

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

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A 19-hour emergency shift in Zululand

A 19-hour emergency shift in Zululand

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.

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Swimming Championships

Behind the Scenes of a Team Physician

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 […]

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Sunrise Surfing

From GP to G-land: Surf Medicine in Remote Indonesia

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.

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The Clinician’s Role at a Remote Ultramarathon – The Highland Ultra

The Clinician’s Role at a Remote Ultramarathon – The Highland Ultra

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.

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Big smiles at the finish line!

Montane Summer Spine Race: A race medic’s perspective

Dr Constance Osborne and Dr Rebecca Webb share their experiences of working as race medics at the Montane Summer Spine ultramarathon. At 268 miles across the Pennine Way, the Summer Spine requires runners to be in peak physical fitness and medics to draw on all of their skills and resourcefulness to keep them safe and in the race. Here Constance and Rebecca share some of their race highlights and insights gleaned practicing medicine in this low resource setting.

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