Steven Miles is a professor of medicine and bioethics at the University of Minnesota. He is also he author of Oath Betrayed: Military Medicine and the War on Terror,  which focuses on why the U.S. medical staff in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay did not report or intervene to stop the abuse of prisoners for the two years preceding the public release of the Abu Ghraib photographs. Third year medical student, Catherine Pastorius, from the University of Minnesota, interviews him in a podcast interview. She has also painstakingly transcribed the interview and if you would like a free copy of the wordfile, please email student@lancet.com 

Richard Smith, former editor of the BMJ, gave an enlightening speech at the closing ceremony of the IFMSA conference in Canterbury on August 9th 2007. He showed some powerful slides of what the future could be like and what medical students should be doing about issues such as climate change. You can listen to it here.

Tom Ellman has worked intermittantly for Médecins Sans Frontières over the past 12 years. At The closing ceremony of the IFMSA conference in Canterbury on 9th August 2007 his keynote speech includes what it is like to work for MSF and why medical students should care about global health issues. You can listen to it here.

Richard Horton, editor of The Lancet, gave an inspirational speech at the opening ceremony of the IFMSA Conference in Canterbury on 4th August. He challenged medical students to be the champions of social justice. You can listen to it here.

After a couple of minutes preamble from me (Rhona) about TheLancetStudent.com, I interview Ed Mills, the lead author of the health and human rights series in The Lancet about why students should be interested in, and more involved with, human rights. You can listen to the interview here. We also have an interview with him in our Articles section