News & Features
UK surgical trainees with OOPEs in low-middle income countries required for research
UK surgical trainees who have taken an OOPE in a low-middle income country required for research project.
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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
The Arclight Crosses Africa
Merlin Hetherington and Alex McMaster cycle an incredible 10000km through Africa by tandem bicycle, on an epic mission to train health workers to use Arclight, an innovative eye examination device, in a step towards reducing preventable causes of blindness.
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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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