The Faculty of Prehospital Care (FHPC) have just published guidance for medics on British Standard 8848. BS 8848 is the good practice guideline for those organising overseas trips, including visits, fieldwork, expeditions, and adventurous activities outside the United Kingdom.

With so many opportunities available for experience around training programmes there can be difficult decisions for junior doctors deciding, if, when and how, to best combine their other interests with their medical career. Here, we proudly present Adventure Medic’s Updated Guide to Taking Time Out From UK Training.

The RCSEd Faculty of Prehospital Care has released updated guidance for medical provision for wilderness medicine. The revised 2019 version includes updates to the skills framework and expedition risk matrix, and broader consideration of competencies beyond purely medical skills.

The Wilderness Medical Society has updated its Clinical Practice Guidelines. The 2019 update included the guidelines on altitude illness, frostbite, heat illness, accidental hypothermia, drowning, spinal cord protection, water disinfection and diabetes. Essential reference for all expedition medics.

The IPPG Rescue Posts in Machermo and Gokyo, Nepal, have closed this week. These facilities, essential for local people in the Khumbu and one of mountain medicine’s great success stories, have been forced to shut by unscrupulous business interests profiting from unnecessary helicopter evacuations. Dr Nick Mason from IPPG has published an open letter, explaining the circumstances of the closure.

Dr. Rebecca Trimble reflects on an awe-inspiring weekend of all things expedition, wilderness and humanitarian medicine at the World Extreme Medicine Conference 2019.

The programme and tickets have been released for the British Mountain Medicine Science Day on 13 November 2019.

UK surgical trainees who have taken an OOPE in a low-middle income country required for research project.

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?

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.