We are proud to present the our Winner of the Adventure Medic Elective Competition 2015! We loved Madeleine’s colourful and reflective account of Saint Vincent life, both on and off the wards. Enjoy!

Taking a curious and reflective approach to his elective, Jamie Goodhart gives us his stories from Manthali, a remote village nestled in the Nepalese mountains.

It’s a new medical year, and for many, that means elective planning time. Read Foundation Doctors Jamie Loan and Donald Waters on the joys and pitfalls of a medical elective in the developing world.

Embracing all things snowy, Rachael Parker details her Winter elective in Swedish Lapland, from midnight skiing to patient transfers in the sub-zero.

Emily Brown / Bristol Foundation Trainee talks about her medical elective with the International Porter Protection Group in Nepal. HAPE, HACE, AMS & Occupational Health

Naomi Dodds on her pre-hospital care elective in Tromsø, Arctic Norway. An enviable mix of flying, stunning scenery and midnight mountaineering.

Foundation Doctor Ollie Osunkunle passes on his experience and tips for an elective in the beautiful, but resource-poor, country of Lesotho.

With winter upon us, Foundation Doctor Hannah Newcombe recounts her ski medicine elective in the French Alps last season.

Thomas Eriksen, final year medical student at the University of Glasgow on the ups and downs of an elective in dive medicine at the Townsville Hyperbaric Unit in Australia.

Felicity Arthur / A newly qualified doctor from Arran, describes her elective with the Royal Flying Doctors Service of Australia (RFDS) in Port Augusta, near Adelaide