treated everyone as equals. If you were lost and needed to ask for directions, they would provide the answers and escort you to where you needed to be because they truly wished to help. They were so very helpful and attended to all requests we had and did their very best to make me comfortable and happy. I was most impressed by my room-mate Xiayan, who was a wonderful companion and great to share some fun with.
interested in joining AMSA-Myanmar, and it is my hope that we will send more delegates to the next AMSA and EAMSC conferences. To sum up, I spent some of the best days of my life at JC 2011 and I feel so happy and proud to be have been a part of it, and meet all the friends I made there. This vivid experience and the energetic spirit it carried will remain in my memory and last forever - even if I have dementia in my old days!
At home in Myanmar, there are a lot of medical students
A Glance: Joint Conference Hong Kong 2011 AMSA Malaysia by Chim Sook Kuan
On the 25th of June 2011, 55 Malaysian delegates representing 7 medical universities in Malaysia participated in the Joint Conference, Hong Kong 2011, with the theme ‘Integrative Medicine: Evidence-based traditional, complementary and alternative medicine in modern medical practice’. This was the inaugural joint conference between the Asian Medical Students’ Association (AMSA) and the International Federation of Medical Students’ Association (IFMSA). One the first day of the conference, an icebreaker games session allowed the delegates from the 25 chapters get to know each other. At the end of the day, there was a welcome dinner at a cool floating Chinese restaurant. On the second day, Prof Jin Ling Tang presented a keynote lecture with the title ‘Traditional Medicine In The Era of
Evidence-Based Medicine’. Delegates were also given the