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. Updated in 2023 by James Truell. 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.