From orchidopexy to burr holes: General Surgical Registrar Matthew Doe, on the challenges and rewards of an Out of Programme Experience (OOPE) in Mbale, Uganda.

Junior doctors Shona Main and Will Denehan have demystified and condensed all you need to know to make the move to live and work as a doctor in New Zealand. Updated in 2023 by James Truell. What are you waiting for?

Looking after divers on expedition? The docs from Plymouth’s hyperbaric medical facility, DDRC Healthcare, run us through the physiology and management of decompression illness.

Dr Iona Taylor reflects on her ocean crossing as Watch Leader on a 72 ft sailing yacht in the ‘Atlantic Rally for Cruisers’. Unfortunately, an unwell crew member required Iona to step up and manage and coordinate medical care, made specifically testing by their remote location, limited resources and challenging seas.

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.