In today’s podcast Erica and John speak to Mustafa Abbas. Mustafa told us all about being the coordinator of Medsin’s Healthy Planet Campaign (sign the pledge) as well as being the new Vice President for Branches. He also was one of the authors on the fantastic (and enormous) report that was published recently in The Lancet on the links between climate change and health - a busy chap! So we’re really pleased that he managed to squeeze us in for a chat…listen in here.

 

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In today’s podcast Erica and John speak to Mustafa Abbas. Mustafa told us all about being the coordinator of Medsin’s Healthy Planet Campaign (sign the pledge) as well as being the new Vice President for Branches.  He also was one of the authors on the fantastic (and enormous) report that was published recently in The Lancet on the links between climate change and health - a busy chap! So we’re really pleased that he managed to squeeze us in for a chat…listen in here.

 

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Todays podcast introduces our newest shiniest intern Erica! Erica will be here at TLS for most of the summer and we look forward to hearing more from her. She chats about Medsin and campaigning in general, as well as her expectations for her time here.

 

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Congratulations to Bharat Kumar, first prize winner of The Lancet Student’s ‘Climate Change and Health’ competition!  Bharat has lived on four continents and is currently a third year medical student performing a surgery rotation in Baltimore, Maryland.  He phones in to discuss his winning essay and share first hand experience witnessing the dramatic effects of climate change in the Himalayas.  Listen in as he comes up with not three, not four, but five suggestions for future doctors to combat climate change- on the spot!  Now that’s a TLS contest winner for you.

 

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In this week’s podcast, John talks to Bibek Aryal, author of the paper on the Nepal Medical College Red Cross Youth Circle about the importance of joining student action groups, and what these groups can achieve, even in developing countries. Listen in here.

 

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In this week’s podcast, John talks to Sarah Walpole, author of the TLS paper ‘Elucidating Social Capital and its Implications for Health’. They discuss the importance of economics to the practice of medicine and why all doctors should have an understanding of the social sciences to help them with their work. Listen in here.

 

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In this week’s podcast, Katie and Zeinab talk to Mark Brown, editor of One in Four, a lifestyle magazine aimed at people with mental health problems.

They discuss the issue of stigma and mental health in society and the role of mental health services in the experience of service users. They also talk about the need for a magazine aimed at the practicalities of everyday life, and the importance of providing positive examples of the experience of mental health problems. Listen in.

 

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In this week’s podcast, John talks to Viktor Koelzer and Sara Brittingham of the Technical University of Munich about their Lancet Student article ‘Decisions at the End of Life’ and discusses what led them to write about palliative care and euthanasia, and why they think it’s vital for medical students to debate the issue of how doctors face death. Listen in.

 

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This week, John and Kate discuss the latest developments in on the site in the Podcast. Listen in here

 

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We are really excited to bring you this week’s podcast- first we speak live via telephone to recent TLS editor Lashel, and special visiting intern Kate from Manchester University sits in. The girls discuss the differences between residency placements in the US versus the UK. Is it better to have your future life and career as a doctor determined by seven questions, or by what is essentially a dating service for hospitals? Diane Wu of the University of British Colombia in Canada calls in to chat about her recently published article, China’s Next Great Wall. Speaking from personal experience in rural China, Diane gives a great account of the efficacy of China’s recently adopted NCMS healthcare system. Ultimately the talk turns to the global health care crisis, the global economic crisis, and how this may all be solved by sending politicians back to school. Listen in!
http://podcast.thelancet.com/audio/student/2009/tls_27march.mp3

 

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