News & Features
Sex, Power and Vulnerability: Safeguarding on Expeditions
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.
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Photo & Video
Two Boys on a Bike for Sight: Arclight Tandem Africa
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.
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Adventures
Wild Nepal
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 […]
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Students
Living my elective dream in Fiji
Dr Mille Wood recounts her amazing medical elective experience with World Extreme Medicine in Fiji.
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Core Skills
Ski Patrol Equipment in Scotland
Harriet Gray-Stephens, a ski patroller in Glenshee, gives us the lowdown on first aid equipment in Scotland. Tips and photos from an adventure medic who loves the snow.
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