How do you run a large, fully funded expedition while still a medical student? James Penney on the MADEX 2015 research expedition to remote Madagascar, studying schistosomiasis.

UK Doctors Morven Telling and Byrony Corbyn’s moving account of volunteering in the Calais and Dunkirk refugee camps, including links for volunteers, for donations.

Karen Bevan-Mogg’s trip to Kenya with Primary Care International, a new venture aimed at tackling the growing burden of non-communicable diseases in low to middle income countries. They are currently recruiting NHS GPs to help.

Vascular surgeon Chris Imray explores the jungles and mountains of West Papua on an ascent of the most exotic Seventh Summit: Carstensz Pyramid, Oceania’s highest peak.

Charlotte Gunner describes her motivation, preparation, experiences and reflections of volunteering as a junior doctor in surgery in a resource-poor hospital in Zambia.

A diagnostic conundrum from BES Ladakh expedition doctor Nick Haslam, including some fascinating video footage of the patient’s neurological signs.

Dr Zoe Smeed, Edinburgh-based Emergency Medicine registrar with a special interest in pre-hospital care travels to the Arctic Circle to learn from Norway’s pre-hospital, retrieval and emergency services first hand.

James Coates on his first expedition with Operation Wallacea to Cusuco National Park in Honduras. Featuring some stunning photography and great advice for those starting out in wilderness medicine.

Simon Greenfield, an Emergency Care Practitioner with the West Midlands Ambulance Service, on deploying to Gorka in Nepal with Humanity First Medical following the 2015 earthquakes.

What makes a medic go BASE jumping? Offering more reflections than answers, Trauma Fellow BASE #1863 tells us about his life-changing experiences in the most extreme of sports.