In this article, Dr Imara Gluning reviews her experience of the Global Health and Emergency Medicine Fellowship at the Bristol Royal Infirmary. She takes us through the goals of the fellowship, its highlights, challenges and how you could get involved!

A summary of some of the most pertinent publications in expedition medicine and global heath from Autumn 2022

Final Year Cardiff University Medical Student, Imo Young reviews the Unique Expedition Cairngorms Mountain Medicine Course. She provides a breakdown of what to expect and some of her highlights.

Claire Hall/ FY2 Doctor/ North West London Lucy Longbottom/ Final Year Medical Student/ Plymouth University Founded in 2021, Endeavour Medical is a new provider of wilderness and expedition medical training. Their large team of faculty boasts decades of experience in multiple extreme environments including mountain, jungle, polar, and desert with countless teaching and academic accolades to their name. Endeavour Medical […]

Delivering advanced medical care in austere and resource deplete environments can be difficult with the constraints of a small expedition kit bag and sometimes we are faced with hypotension unresponsive to fluid therapy alone.
In this succinct article our very own Dr Edi Albert shares his recipe for delivering adrenaline as a vasopressor when faced with acutely unwell patients in the field. 

Engineer Daniel Abrahams talks about the motivations behind, and intended benefits of, campaigning for better cycling infrastructure on our streets. He has co-founded the Edinburgh version of Critical Mass, which strives to improve cycle-safety on our streets through a pre-figurative approach: create a monthly cycling paradise and show people the benefits.

Adventure Medic reviews GECCo’s June event, ‘Weaving Global Health into the ED: Partners, mentors and fellows’. GECCo brought together a dynamic gathering of clinicians whose interests and experience run of the spectrum of emergency medicine of global health. The event explored current career development opportunities within the field, the most pressing issues facing global emergency practitioners today and created fertile ground for cross-sector collaboration.

Natasha Syratt, a medical student from Plymouth University reviews the student Wild Trials 2022 event. This year 20 university teams took part; here she talks about how the weekend unfolded and her favourite parts of the weekend.

Telemedicine is an expanding field and increasingly relied upon. Dr Grace explores its relevance to expedition medicine and its innovative uses in improving global health. He introduces ‘The Virtual Doctors’, a telemedicine charity that supports rural health centres in Zambia and Malawi through connections with UK doctors and discusses medicolegal and ethical considerations for those considering utilising telemedicine technologies in their practice. 

Megan Roby is a medical student at the University of Exeter and the first student to complete Critical Care International’s e-internship. Dr Marcus Stevens is a GP based in Bath and CCI’s Head of Operations. In this article they share their experience of the first year of CCI’s pioneering medical student e-internship and their reflections on the model’s potential to enrich medical education.