the students return to their local environment with new ideas and the skills to implement them. As the doctors of tomorrow and future leaders of health, we feel confident that our students will carry this spirit with them throughout their professional lives. Mission „Our mission is to offer future physicians a comprehensive introduction to global health issues. Through our programming and opportunities, we develop culturally sensitive students of medicine, intent on influencing the trans-national inequalities that shape the health of our planet.“
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work in which medical student projects can be initiated, carried out and developed; To empower and train medical stu- dents to take a role in bringing about the necessary changes to improve the health of all people of the world.
Membership IFMSA consists of national medical student associations of 102 different countries. Each National Member Organisation has its own identity, reflecting the national needs and culture. IFMSA is a federation which respects the autonomy of its members. The Objectives majority have Local Committees at the me• To expose all medical students to dical schools in their country. These Local humanitarian and global health is Committees coordinate IFMSA activities at sues, providing them with the op the local level. Through these Local Com portunity to educate themselves mittees, our members are in direct contact and their peers; with a hundreds of thousands of medical • To facilitate partnerships between students. the medical student community Our biannual international meetings are a and international organisations feast of cross-cultural interaction and edu also concerned work on health, ed cation. By meeting the most active students ucation and medicine; from other countries, our members not only • To give all medical students the learn about global health, but share their opportunity to take part in clinical ideas, skills and experience about how stu and research exchange around the dents can act on the issues that motivate world; them. A host of regional and national mee• To provide a network that links tings make these experiences available to active medical students across the many more. globe, including student leaders, Our emphasis on training supports capacity project managers and activists, so building within our member organisations, that they can learn from and be mo bringing benefits both for the student lea tivated by each other; ders and the other young people that they • To provide an international frame lead. Medical Students World Wide.
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