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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