IFMSA Presentation

01/05/23Medical Students Worldwide 1

IFMSAInternational Federation of Medical Students’ Associations

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Presentation Outline

• Introduction• Core activities• What we offer to our members• The way we work

- Six different themes• Structure• Meetings


Introduction

• ”World medical students’ organisation”

• Founded in 1951• 980 000 members representing

93 countries• Officially recognized by WHO • Our mission:

To introduce medical students to global health, and to work together to improve health all over the world.


Core activities

• Exchange of:– Students– Ideas– Experiences– Competence

• Co-operation: projects on local, national and international level


EXCHANGEAND

COOPERATION

Training External representation

What we offer to our members


Partners Funders Resource persons

What we offer to our members


What do we do?

• Exchanges• Projects:

– Humanitarian projects– Networks– Databases

• Trainings• Conferences, workshops, summer

schools• Publications• Discussion and debate


Themes

• Professional exchange • Research exchange • Public health • Refugees and peace• Reproductive health including

AIDS• Medical education


Professional Exchange

• 4 weeks abroad• Clinical/preclinical training• Experience a foreign health

system• Bilateral exchanges• Board and accommodation

arranged• 6 000 students per year


Research Exchange

• 1 – 6 months abroad• Work with research team• Experience research and culture

abroad • Database with several thousand

projects • Bilateral exchanges• Board and accommodation arranged• 500 students per year


Public Health

International project:Romania Orphanage Project

National project:Caring for the health of neglected children Indonesia


Refugees and Peace

National project:Friendship programme with young refugees The Netherlands

International Project:International Training Congress on

Refugee Health in Pakistan


Reproductive Health

International project:HIV/AIDS and Human Rights: Young people in Action Training Kit

National project:Godfrey’s Children project Tanzania


Medical Education

International project:Teaching Geriatrics in Medical

Education

National project:Sign Language Courses Croatia

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Regions

Executive BoardThemes

Support

General Assemblies


Meetings

• Bi-annual General Assembly– August Meeting: The

Netherlands– March Meeting: Venezuela

• Regional and sub-regional meetings

• National conventions• 5 Executive Board meetings a

year


Information

• Internet– Website: www.ifmsa.org– Online database services

• E-mail– Topic based mailing lists– News by email:

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