Effective two nucleon (NN) interactions in the nuclear medium have been defined from an accurate mapping of NN g matrices obtained by solving the Brueckner–Bethe–Goldstone (BBG) equations for infinite nuclear matter. Those effective interactions have been used in fully microscopic calculations of proton-light nuclei (nonlocal) effective interactions from which predictions of the elastic scattering differential cross sections and analysing powers have been obtained. Results for incident proton energies of 65 and 200 MeV are considered in particular herein. The associated relative motion wave functions have been used as the distorted waves in distorted wave approximation (DWA) studies of select inelastic scattering events. The same effective interactions were used as the transition operators in those calculations. The relevant nuclear spectroscopy for the elastic and DWA (p, p′) calculations has been found from full (0 + 2)hϖ shell model evaluations of the nuclear structure; wave functions of which give good descriptions of form factors obtained from electron scattering.