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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
Rhona MacDonald discusses this last week in the life of TheLancetStudent.com and introduces this week’s published articles. She discusses the influence of the pharmaceutical industry on doctors and medical students, runs though Rhona’s rules, and interviews medical student, Elizabeth Leyland, the author of an opinion article about Facebook
Rhona MacDonald and Richard Lane discuss all that has happened with TheLancetStudent.com since its launch less than five months ago and discuss the way forward for 2008.
In this week’s podcast Rhona MacDonald interviews Islean Kinghorn and Jienchi Dorward, two student authors who published on TheLancetStudent.com this week to find out more about the topics they write about: unsafe abortions and the healthcare system in Bolivia. And Richard Lane discusses his recent trip to Uganda. There is also a special audio feature about his trip.
In the first Listen to The Lancet Student podcast, Rhona and Richard introduce the new Reading Room, which contains free chapters from a selection of 31 core medical textbooks published by Elsevier, and discuss new articles published on the site this week, covering topics such as pain management and climate change.
