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.

Inventor Tim Jeffrey, on the idea and development of an emergency bottle shower for relief agencies and victims of chemical attacks: a great account of how to turn inspiration to innovation, and an invention to reality.

The Wilderness Medical Society have published a free, printable, double-sided card, summarising the key elements of hypothermia evaluation and field care for laypersons, trained rescuers and first responders.

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.

The World Extreme Medicine Conference will be at Dynamic Earth, Edinburgh, 23-25 November 2018: extreme, expedition and wilderness medicine; disaster and humanitarian medicine and pre-hospital medicine. See you all there!

Glasgow University’s Helicopter Medical Careers Conference promises to answer any questions you may have about a job in aeromedicine. The event is for students, paramedics nurses and doctors on 23 March 2019.

Applications have opened for the 2019 Scientific Exploration Society Explorer Awards. Apply for funding for adventurous or research-based expeditions.

Tickets are on sale for this year’s CASE Medicine KnO2wledge extreme environmental physiology conference in London on 30 November 2018. The theme is aviation.

Teamwork can make or break an expedition. So what affects how your group gels together in the field? Dr Nathan Smith, founder of the online School for Psychology in Extremes, In Extremis, gives us an overview of the factors at play.