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As the autumn and winter close in, creating the traditional chaos on the British public transport network (leaves are apparently sacred to the British – we stop all of our trains if one falls on the track!), I have had a little more time than usual to sit back and...
Following 15 years of full time work as a nurse, midwife, teacher and counsellor in Zimbabwe I returned to the UK in 1995. Since then I have been privileged to return to my old haunts once (and more usually, twice) for short visits each year. Each visit has held its own...
I joined other volunteers from the UK, USA, and Mexico itself to work for Armonia, a Christian organisation that runs three community centres in the slums of Mexico City. As well as running holiday clubs for kids in one of these centres, I helped out at clinics run at...
What are you doing? And why? These sorts of questions tend to be reserved for those times in your life when you’re faced with big decisions like what to do as a medic in overseas mission. As a newly trained GP, I was attracted to the vision statement of INF...
Brazil is an inspiring country for a medical elective. I went to Belo Horizonte, the third largest city, because my parents run a shelter for homeless children there. This gave me the opportunity to learn about the provision of healthcare, partly by accompanying doctors and partly by using...
Introduction MMA HealthServe asked me to write this article because I sit on the UK General Medical Council, because I am therefore expected to know something about its proposals for revalidation, and because many doctors currently working overseas, or thinking of going overseas, are understandably worried that by doing so...
