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You can now listen to a weekly podcast with the latest news and talking
points from thelancetstudent.com
Presented by Editor Rhona MacDonald and Lancet Web Editor Richard Lane,
each week there will be a discussion about new articles being published
by TheLancetStudent.com, and a quick overview of the news from the
Lancet journals, and other relevant developments in global health.
As outlined in the first podcast produced on Dec 7, 2007, we want student voices participating in the podcasts. If you have an idea or issue that you want to air, e-mail student@lancet.com.
Subscribing to TheLancetStudent.com podcast:
If you have the iTunes media player, you can subscribe to Listen to The Lancet Student podcasts at the iTunes Music Store. To subscribe to the podcast directly, simply copy and paste the following link into a podcast software client: http://podcast.thelancet.com/lancet-student.xml
This week’s podcast includes Kai Yuen Wong talking about his week at the Lancet and the AMSA (Asian Medical Students’ Association) conference coming up in Tokyo on the 25th July. The current interns mention a talk at St Bart’s hospital on north-south partnerships in mental health and ongoing changes to the website.
Student interns Sophie and Christine give an update on this weeks postings on The Lancet Student and a brief summary on the discussion that was hosted by Medecins Sans Frontiers-UK on the Responsbility to Protect, held this past Thursday. Also, another reminder to keep sending your articles and topic ideas for the Medsin-UK and The Lancet Student collaboration on “Power, Politics and Global Health“.
Lancet Student interns, Sophie Mathewson and Christine Tapp discuss the week’s events including a function they went to for Refugee week and the media media launch of the second Action For Global Health report that they also discussed in a blog this week.
Editor Rhona MacDonald and Lancet Student interns, Sophie Mathewson and Christine Tapp discuss what has been going on in Lancet Student world this week. Rhona raves about James Orbinski, the former president of Medecins Sans Frontieres, and recommends that you read his autobiography, An Imperfect offering .The girls also discuss what is is like being a Lancet Student intern. If you are interested in becoming one yourself, please email rhona.macdonald@lancet.com
Chat about what has been going on this week at The Lancet Student with Rhona MacDonald and Richard Lane who are joined by current Lancet Student interns Sophie Mathewson and Christine Tapp. President of the UK medical student organisation Medsin, Gemma Owens, also pops in and talks more about the Lancet Student / Medsin project to publish a booklet on power, politics, and global health where we need YOU to contribute so please have a listen (we also discuss more in the blog). Rhona finishes by talking about UN peacekeeprs and the sexual exploitation of children- the topic of this week’s long Lancet editorial.
Rhona MacDonald and Richard Lane discuss this week in the life of The Lancet Student. Rhona also interviews Joshua Schulman-Marcus (a fourth year medical student at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, USA, Sarnoff Cardiovascular Foundation Fellow, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston AND prolific writer and blogger for The Lancet Student) about the three part series he has written for The Lancet Student on the global diabetes epidemic. Part one is on foot disease, part 2 focuses on eye disease, and part 3-just published this week-is on access to insulin and other drugs that help to manage diabetes.
Rhona MacDonald and Richard Lane discuss the importance of the right to health, ask whether motives for getting involved in global health matter, and give some v interesting poll results. Rhona also gets on her soap box about the MDGs!
Conference season is in full swing and this week, Rhona MacDonald and Richard Lane discuss all the conferences being covered by our roving Lancet Student reporters, The Lancet Student monthly prize, and the 60 year Anniversary of WHO as mentioned in this week’s Lancet Digest. Rhona also chats with Gemma Owens and and Simon Lex, President and Vice-President of Medsin, about the Medsin Global Health Conference in Oxford last weekend.
Rhona MacDonald and Richard Lane catch up on the latest Lancet Student articles, campaigns, and events. They chat about medical student Paul Park’s experiences in Kenya (Part 1 and Part 2), Medical Peace Work (a free online course on violence prevention and peace building for health professionals), and why medical students should campaign for access to clean water and improved sanitation for the billions of people in the world who are without these fundamental human rights which are so crucial to health
Rhona MacDonald interviews Rafi Rogans-Watson about the Stop AIDS campaign day of action as featured in a blog entry this week. You can find out more about the campaign by going to the Stop AIDS and Medsin websites. Then Gemma Owens tells us more about last week’s IFMSA conference in Monterrey, Mexico, (again featured in our blog this week) including the policy statements on Migration Health and the Right to Health. You can find these policy statements on the new IFMSA section of our website. Finally, Andrew Branagan joins us from Houston, Texas, to update us on all that is happening at the AMSA conference. You can also follow all that is going on in our daily blog
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