News & Features
The Definitive Junior Doctors’ Guide to Working and Living in New Zealand
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. What are you waiting for?
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Photo & Video
Doctors’ Mental Health – A Call for Action
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.
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Adventures
Mid Ocean Medical Challenges
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.
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Students
Mother Jungle
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.
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Core Skills
Diving: Managing Decompression Illness in Remote Locations
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.
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