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
From Labour Ward to ‘The Island with Bear Grylls’; How to take an OOPC and avoid an Oopsie
You may remember Ali Brookes as the calm and cheerful junior doctor on Bear Grylls’ reality survival series ‘The Island’ in 2018. Now back in O&G training in London, Ali recounts the highs and lows of island life, from jungle critters to dehydration, epic thunderstorms and intense friendships.
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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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