INTERCALATING IN
Charly Waldon, 5th
year medical
student and your
Secretary!
Why you should read this article:
While studying Medicine, it’s
easy to experience tunnel vision. I
wanted to write this article to demonstrate
that becoming a surgeon or physician is
not the be all and end all and that,
throughout your studies, many doors will
remain open.
As part of my Masters intercalated
degree in Humanitarian Studies at the
Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, we
were able to conduct a research project
abroad, which would form the basis of
our dissertation. For my research project,
I had the opportunity to travel to Jordan
to conduct a study with the charity War
Child.
They primarily work in the Za’atari
refugee camp (home to approximately
80,000 Syrian refugees) as well as with
partner organisations in different
communities such as Amman, Zarqa and
Mafraq, providing assistance to child
refugees to limit the effect that war has
on their lives. They do this through
improving education, giving them access
to safe places as well as promoting their
rights.
What was my research study?
What is War Child?
War Child UK is an international non-
governmental organisation that has been
based in Jordan since 2013 as a result of
the Syrian conflict.
My research study focused on War
Child’s ‘child-friendly feedback
mechanisms’. Although charities such as
War Child seek