With the 45 other brand-new shiny and enthusiastic recruits to MSF Operation Centre Amsterdam (OCA), I receive instruction on the history of humanitarianism, the MSF charter and principles, MSF’s code of conduct and how to convey information to the media in a crisis situation whilst maintaining neutrality. I learn how to plan the layout of a basic hospital from scratch, including how to keep the kids in the re-feeding programme from catching cholera or TB from the adult admissions…