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.

Glasgow University’s Helicopter Medical Careers Conference promises to answer any questions you may have about a job in aeromedicine. The event is for students, paramedics nurses and doctors on 23 March 2019.

Following the devastating earthquake of 2015, Dr Nathasha Basheer was inspired to return to Nepal, a country she first visited following her foundation years.  Despite her ongoing commitment to paediatric training in the UK, she organised to spend two weeks volunteering with The Wild Medic Project.  Here she recounts her trip as a ‘Wild Medic’ and how she felt returning […]

Dr Mille Wood recounts her amazing medical elective experience with World Extreme Medicine in Fiji.

Nepali doctor Suvash Dawadi volunteered at Everest ER during the spring 2018 climbing season. In his article, he discusses a typically unpredictable day for a medic at Everest Base Camp.

Teamwork can make or break an expedition. So what affects how your group gels together in the field? Dr Nathan Smith, founder of the online School for Psychology in Extremes, In Extremis, gives us an overview of the factors at play.

Dr Tom Everett discusses the challenges surrounding the historic 2016 mid-winter medevac by Twin Otter aircraft from the remote US Amundsen-Scott Station at the South Pole.