Austere Medicine with Eoin & Roger Alcock

In this episode we explore the various domains of medicine away from an ambulance or hospital setting. Roger Alcock is an Emergency Medicine and Paediatric Emergency Medicine consultant in Scotland and was involved in the 2014 UK response to the West Africa ebola crisis. Myself and Roger explore the facets of humanitarian and expedition medicine that can add to your career and add depth and breath to experience as a pre-hospital clinician. We explore some of the details of Roger's Sierra Leone deployment for the ebola crisis and some of his expedition endeavours all of which have added to his career and perspectives.

We also examine some of the non-technical skills that these deployments and expeditions can foster which both add to resourcefulness and situational awareness of clinical demand and innovation in low resource settings.

I hope you enjoy the episode.