Category: News & Features

Inspiration to Reality: The Emergency Bottleshower

Inspiration to Reality: The Emergency Bottleshower

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.

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Cold Card

Cold Card

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.

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Sex, Power and Vulnerability: Safeguarding on Expeditions

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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Helicopter Medical Careers Conference

Helicopter Medical Careers Conference

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.

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Group Dynamics at the Extremes

Group Dynamics at the Extremes

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.

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Safeguarding on Expedition

Safeguarding on Expedition

Looking after vulnerable adults or young people? We asked Jono Oldershaw, registered Social Worker with a specialist interest in international Child Protection and Mental Health to give us a common sense approach to safeguarding on expedition.

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SES Explorer Awards 2018

SES Explorer Awards 2018

Come along to this celebration of discovery, but be warned, itchy feet are inevitable

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The decontamination process at one of MSF’s Ebola Management Centres, Magburaka, Sierra Leone, March 2015

The fight against ebola & the power of resilience

Dr Sam Roper, a trainee paediatrician with an interest in humanitarian medicine, reflects upon her time in Sierra Leone working with survivors of ebola: plenty to learn from stories of incredible resilience.

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Mutual Benefits of International Volunteering: The Evidence

Mutual Benefits of International Volunteering: The Evidence

Looking for the evidence on working abroad to wave in front of your concerned programme director? The RCPSG have produced a must read report to help with job interviews or your bid for ‘out of programme’ experience.

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Coming Down from On High

Coming Down from On High

Sophie Wallace reflects on returning to Everest following the avalanche of 2014, on the psychological aspects of expedition life and what we can learn from the military about decompression and debriefing.

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