This is the first article in our Masterclass series on ‘Pay in the Expedition Community’. Fair pay for medics working on expeditions has long been a contentious issue. With no guidance available from a professional body, this article aims to begin to carve the way towards a consensus on fair renumeration for expedition medics.

Dr Jake Warrington / Sheffield / Emergency Medicine Junior Clinical Fellow Vivienne Mathews / Scotland / Medical Student Dr Constance Osborne / London / Evidence Explorer Lead Contents Introduction and Collaborators Expedition and Wilderness Medicine Section Global Health and Humanitarian Medicine Section Want to get involved? Thank you for joining us once again at the Evidence Explorer. As an academic […]

Dr Kalpanee Wijendra describes her time working with the Tshemba Foundation in rural South Africa.

Movie: The man who wanted to see it all Where: Netflix About: On August 22, 1962, Heinz Stücke left Hövelhoff in Germany with his bicycle and a tent. Driven by an insatiable desire for adventure, he navigates diverse cultures and landscapes, forming connections with locals and confronting personal challenges along the way. Now, he returns home for the first time […]

Dr Edi Albert / Royal Flying Doctor Service The initial guide to marine envenomation was published in May 2016. With summer around the corner for the southern hemisphere, we thought it was time this important but rarely encountered condition was brought to the forefront again. Here is Dr Edi Albert’s original article again for your education, with an update on […]

Interested in working as a doctor in diving and hyperbaric medicine? Ash Sithirapathy describes her experience of working as the first-ever F2 doctor in Diving and Hyperbaric Medicine at the DDRC Hyperbaric Chamber in Plymouth, Devon.

Dr Ben Dunton is currently working in remote primary and emergency healthcare in Papua New Guinea. The location is popular with adventurous surfers, divers, and billionaires arriving on superyachts. On occasion, they become unstuck and require emergency healthcare. Ben describes a recent case of acute febrile illness in a traveller aboard a superyacht.

Dr Emily Watts tells us about her experience in Cumbria as a Clinical Fellow working in Emergency Medicine with a Special Interest in Pre-Hospital Emergency Medicine. Read on to hear about her work with a local Air Ambulance, Mountain Rescue Team, and more.

A substantial pivot with much greater resourcing, data-driven strategies and new tools is needed to rebuild momentum in the fight against malaria. With the added threat of climate change, sustainable and resilient malaria responses are needed now more than ever.

In this article, Juan discovers the importance of community whilst volunteering as a medic for Floating Doctors in Panama.