Madoc transports us deep into the Peruvian Amazon as he recounts his experiences with Project Amazonas on his medical elective in 2017. His thrilling expedition began at the Orosa river clinic, before taking in city life in the local town of Pevas, and finished with a two-week river barge expedition up the Pintuyacu and Itaya rivers.

Dr Saskia Loysen reflects on her life-changing medical elective experience in South Africa, Botswana and Zimbabwe, where she embarked upon four weeks of wilderness and expedition medicine training.

Nurse and paramedic Vari McCall spends much of her time working overseas as an expedition leader and medic with Ninth Wave Global. She has sailed from America to Greenland, canoed along the Mississippi, rode on horseback in the outback of New Mexico and spent time with rural communities in Mexico and Peru. We asked her about her expeditions, as well as how she fits these trips in with life and work in the U.K.

A brave and honest talk presented at TEDxAuckland by London paediatrician Dr Zeshan Qureshi on the failure of the healthcare system to protect its doctors’ mental health.

Anna recounts her adventurous 2016 undergraduate medical elective. Travelling first to Nepal to work in an urban hospital and remote health-camp, then leaving the heat for the cold of the Arctic Circle to get a flavour of Norway’s world-class pre-hospital care system.

Inventor Tim Jeffrey, on the idea and development of an emergency bottle shower for relief agencies and victims of chemical attacks: a great account of how to turn inspiration to innovation, and an invention to reality.

The Wilderness Medical Society have published a free, printable, double-sided card, summarising the key elements of hypothermia evaluation and field care for laypersons, trained rescuers and first responders.

Emily is an FY1 doctor in Chesterfield, after graduating from Nottingham Medical School in 2017. She spent her final weeks of medical school on elective in Rotorua, working in their Emergency Department (ED) and taking advantage of New Zealand’s rich culture and great outdoors.

Katie Beck, Nurse and Medical Coordination Manager for Raleigh International discusses safeguarding issues for vulnerable adults and younger people, exploring the role of the medic in protecting everyone involved in expeditions from maltreatment.

Undergraduate students from St Andrew’s University in Scotland set off on their record-breaking journey by tandem bicycle across Africa to deliver the Arclight device, a compact and robust sustainable opthalmoscope and otoscope, to help equip local health workers to tackle leading causes of preventable blindness and deafness.