News & Features
GECCo Conference 2022 – Weaving Global Health into the ED: Partners, mentors and fellowships
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.
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Core Skills
Telemedicine in Remote and Wilderness Environments
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.
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Students
Wild Trials 2022
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.
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- New Zealand Southern Alps Pre-Hospital and Mountain Medicine Elective Opportunity
- Obstetrics and Gynaecology on the Zambezi
- An Outback Elective
- A Truck Crash in a Volcanic Desert (and other stories from Ethiopia)
Photo & Video
The Frenchy
With so much negative news and scaremongering in the media at the moment, we could all do with a bit of Jacques Huout in our lives. 41 years old (each leg), his zest for life and positive attitude is infectious. This short film is truly heartwarming and hopefully inspiring for all of us to get outside and live our lives, whatever our age.
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