Final year student at UCL, Neil Graham, talks to Julian Sheather, ethics manager at the BMA; Lorraine Noble, senior lecturer in clinical skills at University College London; and Anthony Costello, director of the University College London Centre for International Health and Development at the Institute of Child Health

They discuss the ethical problems that may arise when undertaking a placement in a resource poor setting. We focus on a fictional scenario with Danny, a medical student who has got a placement in a hospital in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.

Medical student’s spend years training to become registered doctors, but throughout that time there is always the potential for a medical emergency to occur outside the clinical setting and often without warning.

In this second student BMJ podcast we’ll hear from 3 people who have been first on scene: Benjamin Waterhouse, a medical student at Leeds University; Roger Allen, a thoracic surgeon from Brisbane Australia; and Peter Holden, an immediate care medic who also works for the BMA.