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.

Grab your early bird tickets for the 2018 Student Wilderness Medicine Conference 2018 – brought to you by Liverpool Wilderness Medics, 12-14th October, Snowdonia National Park. See you there!

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.

New UK Mountain Medicine site, with details of UK Mountain Medicine Fellowships and the Hathersage weekend.