ZMSSA-Zagazig LC Profile 22-23

Introduction

About ZMSSA:

Zagazig Medical Students’ Scientific Association (ZMSSA) is Non-Profit, Nonreligious, Non-Political, Student-Run organization. In Faculty of Medicine Zagazig University.

It was founded in 1979 By Dr.Mohamed Othman Al-Hayeg, and currently supervised by Dr.Abeer Al-Hawary, as the academic supervisor.

ZMSSA Is Full member in International Federation of Medical Students’ Association in Egypt (IFMSA-Egypt) Which is Also a Full member in International Federation of Medical Students’ Association (IFMSA).

About IFMSA-Egypt:

IFMSA Egypt is a registered NGO at the Ministry of Social Solidarity with the Registration Number: 3115-Alexandria.

IFMSA-Egypt was established in 1969 and it currently include more than 27 Local Committees in Faculties of medicine all around Egypt.

About IFMSA:

IFMSA-Egypt is a full National Member Organization of the International Federation of Medical Students’ Associations (IFMSA) which is the official body of Medical Students worldwide, it was founded in May 1951 and currently it is made up of 133 National Member Organizations from more than 123 Countries spanning the 6 continents. IFMSA is officially recognized as a non-governmental organization within the United Nations (UN) and it is also recognized by the World Health Organization (WHO) as the official international forum for medical students.

Vision:

Help Medical students in Zagazig university to become future professional healthcare providers equipped with all skills to be efficient part of the society.

Goals:

1- Provide all medical students with extra curriculum knowledge and skills that they need in their work and life.

2- Make medical students’ part of the society and have role in advocacy and problem solving of society problems.

3- Organize exchange programs for medical students.

All Goals are aligned with the Sustainable Developmental Goals (SDGs) and 2030 Agenda of the UN, and also aligned with Egypt vision for 2030.

Missions:

1- Conduct workshops, events, and training for medical students.

2- Help Medical students in Zagazig to achieve more in the research field.

3- Provide exchange opportunities to medical students in Zagazig.

4- Advocate for Health issues that matters the community.

5- Help to promote the medical education.

Structure

To achieve all our desired goals, ZMSSA implement its work through strict construction as follows:

Executive Board (EB):

Supervise all the activities that is done by ZMSSA

Consist of: 1- President 2- Vice President For External Affairs

Vice President For Internal Affairs

Secretary General 5- Treasurer

Team Of Officials (TO):

Include all responsible officers of ZMSSA, each one responsible for a specific committee which implement specific area of work.

Consist of: 1. Local officer on Research and Professional Exchange (LEO/LORE) 2. Local officer on Public Health (LPO) 3. Local officer on Reproductive Health and HIV/AIDS (LORA) 4. Local officer on Medical Education (LOME) 5. Local officer on Rights and Peace (LORP) 6. Capacity building division director (CBSDD) 7. Projects division director (PSDD) 8. Research Division director (RSDD) 9. Publication and New technologies division director (PNSDD) 10.Fundraising Division Director (FSDD)

1. Standing Committee on Professional and research Exchange

Our vision

Is no one should be denied access to high-quality healthcare because of their ethnic origin, culture, or background. We envision a society in which all healthcare workers are welcoming of and understanding of others' differences. A world where you may get the same level of healthcare from anybody, anywhere, as if it were provided by your own skin.

We believe that medical students and physicians have a responsibility to act as angels of mercy in times of tragedy and peacekeepers in times of war.

Our objective

- Is to assist our fellow medical students in fulfilling that responsibility by assisting them in being more understanding of other cultures and open-minded to the diversity of others.

- We view student exchange to be one of the greatest tools that can help achieve that, by hosting medical students from all over the world and enabling our colleagues to travel to many different countries.

- We host international students in many departments within our faculty and hospitals throughout our annual incoming campaign. We organize their stay and ensure that they will have the greatest possible experience.

- That means it's part of our job to prepare our exchange team members to deal with foreigners and understand how to make their stay as comfortable as possible.

- In our annual outgoing campaign, we provide medical students at our facility with the option to visit one of our 133 National Member Organizations, which span six continents and represent over 123 countries.

- They can participate in a professional exchange or a research exchange program. Professional exchange allows you to do a clinical clerkship in another country, whereas Research Exchange allows you to intern on a research project in another country. we supervise the selection of exchange. Candidates go through an exam, an interview, and then the entire paperwork process before being exchanged.

2. Sanding Committee on Public Health

Vision

Medical Students attain the optimal skills and knowledge to contribute to their full potential towards the making of healthier communities in their capacity as medical students and as future healthcare providers.

Mission

Promotion of the development of medical students regarding Public Health issues through an international sharing knowledge network, projects management, community-based learning, capacity building, advocacy, exchanges placements and access to external learning opportunities to share and explore new ideas regarding these issues.

Our Projects and Focus areas: We rase awareness about these topics but first we should learn how to transmit these messages to public as future doctors with the needed knowledge to be an advocate for healthy living.

1- Mental health project: Addresses mental health issues to promote Mental Health status on different aspects and end the stigma and misconceptions about Mental Health disorders.

2- Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs) focus area: educating the public about NCDs, healthy lifestyle and disease prevention. Which includes:

• Cancer: cancer is one of the main causes of death that’s why we want to play a role in raise people’s awareness about different types of cancer.

• Tobacco Prevention: tobacco is one of the risk factors in many diseases and health conditions so, it's important to address this problem and how to raise people’s awareness about it.

• Diabetes and hypertension: these are two of the most common NCDs in our community, yet a lot of people still don’t have the right amount of information about them.

3- Bridging Gaps in Health (BGH): Year by year, new challenges emerge, so doctors must be equipped with the knowledge, understanding, and skills required to carry out important public health work and to tackle Public Health issues to Bridge Gaps in Health. Which includes:

• Universal Health Coverage (UHC): it’s the new health system that will be implemented in Zagazig in 2030 so, it’s important to raise people’s awareness including future health care providers about this system.

• Climate change: recently climate change crisis has taken much attention as it should have. The leading cause of climate change is the human activities so, to reach a healthier community, we need to change our behaviors, and this won’t happen unless we spread the awareness of the importance of this crisis.

• Anti-microbial resistance (AMR): we have reached a point where some bacteria and viruses no longer respond to medications and to solve this problem and prevent it from deteriorating, we need to increase people’s level of knowledge about medications use.

• Standing Committee on Reproductive Health and AIDS

Our vision:

Is that every individual knows and is educated about reproductive health regardless of any stigma.

Our mission:

• Is empowering medical students in their reproductive life and increasing their awareness regarding topics - repressed by ignorance since forever- in a way that aligns with our oriental principles.

• The process of empowerment is enacted by interactive workshops or awareness campaigns held physically or on social media platforms.

The projects:

1.Population Control and family planning: This topic is a national priority at the moment and is carried out in collaboration with the country’s efforts. Egypt is considered the most populated country in the Middle East And the importance of counseling as well as determining the intervals between each pregnancy. And the importance of the matters above to the health of women and children.

2. Female Genital Mutilation: A crime punishable by law; however, up until this day and according to recent studies has reached 87.3% in Egypt and is mostly committed by doctors. And here comes our role as future healthcare providers to learn the impact of this act and how to handle it to limit its detrimental consequences.

3.Gender Based Violence: From our contributions to society is our role to shed light on the growing dilemma of our society whether it may be harassment, workplace or cyber blackmailing, domestic violence, underage marriage, and honor crimes and seek equality in all aspects of life to achieve sustainable development.

4 Adolescents’ health, puberty, parental exemplar, and human relationships.

5 (HIV) and AIDS: In the lives of many doctors, it is very likely that they’ll encounter a person living with HIV and it is just as likely that most of these medical professionals- if not all of them-will panic; and that is due to the lack of knowledge regarding its modes of transmission and protective precautions when encountering it as well as the stigma resulting from the rudimentary ideas about its mode of transmission. And that is exactly where our role comes in spreading awareness, learning how to properly take care of people living with HIV, guiding them, and informing them of their rights.

6.Reproductive Health:

Raising awareness about genital tract infections and different kinds of cancers like breast cancer, prostate cancer, and testicular cancer; as well as acceptance and ownership of one’s body, the concept of consent, and all kinds of reproductive rights in general.

7. maternal and Women’s Health: Whether it may be before, during, or after pregnancy and her rights during labor. We will discuss menstruation and the critical changes that occur during it.

3. Standing Committee on Medical Education

We have a vision and mission which through them we reach better healthcare worldwide.

Our vision: our priority is medical students and their development through many aspects but mainly (personally and professionally).

Our mission:

“What we do”, here we take steps to reach our main goal. In SCOME, we help medical students to share and learn everything can make them better future doctors.

Projects: and topics we care and work on. They all target mainly medical students and medical education.

1- Evidence based medicine (EBM)

Definition: the conscientious, explicit, judicious, and reasonable use of modern, best evidence in making decisions about the care of patients. practice of EBM is a process of life long, self-directed, and problembased learning which every medical student must learn about.

Aim: It’s a movement that aims to increase the use of high-quality clinical research in clinical decision making by integrating individual clinical expertise and patient values with best available external clinical evidence from systematic research to determine appropriate treatment plan.

2- First aid for all project: this is one of the most important projects we have in SCOME, in which we teach medical students how to deal with emergency situations and provide first aid according to the latest guidelines.

3-PGO “post-graduate Opportunities”: It’s a major event in which we help medical students to know how to deal with their life after graduation as future doctors.

4- Better medical education: In this project we help medical students to participate in medical education as our main priority, and that’s through many activities we do together.

In SCOME we aim to reach every medical student and to help them by different ways.

PGO Medicine and Beyond conference at faculty of medicine 2022

4. Standing Committee on Rights and Peace

The Standing Committee on Refugees was established in 1983 with the goal of paying attention to the challenges encountered by the displaced population and assisting in relief efforts.

Vision:

SCORP intends to create a peaceful world in which all people have full and equal access to their human rights, no one is left behind, persons are given priority, and the entire society, including medical students and health workers, works together to protect vulnerable groups.

Mission:

To empower and motivate medical students to actively promote and protect their rights and peace through advocacy; capacity building; awareness-raising; and by supporting the students in carrying out activities and projects that contribute to creating a fair and peaceful world.

Projects:

1. Together against stigma campaigns: Increased awareness medical students about stigma against medical practitioners in healthcare facilities, daily struggles they face, Also, reflecting on stigma and discrimination surrounding patients in healthcare settings, their right to equal treatment opportunities

2. Doctors and patient rights, and Health Equality.

3. Orphan Day: falls on the first Friday of April and has become a national celebration since its inauguration in 2004. To raise awareness of orphaned children in Egypt.

4. People living with disabilities campaign: we celebrate on 3rd of December with those people to give them the insurance that we all care about them and support them

5. Blood donation campaign: World Blood Donor Day takes place on 14 June each year. The aim is to raise global awareness of the need for safe blood and blood products for transfusion and of the critical contribution voluntary, unpaid blood donors make to national health systems.

5. Capacity Building and Training Support Division

Vision:

CBSD stands for capacity building support division, its vision is to build an efficient capacity for the members that will be able to conduct their roles in the best way either in their medical career or in their roles in the different activities. This is achieved by offering the members with the most needed skills and trainings to empower their capabilities and ensure that they can make a valuable actions and participation in their committees. The skills needed ranged from the basic soft skills to the advanced ones.

Mission:

As mentioned, the skills offered by the capacity building support division are conducted through workshops, trainings and different activities following each workshop in order to ensure that the trained members got the most benefits from the sessions. Moreover, the division trainers are always available for members to offer them with the skills needed in their steps in applying for different activities.

Activities:

We work in the form of training sessions, and each includes many soft skills. Such as: Communication & presentation skills, Time management, Conflict management, Professional files, Leadership & team building, Advocacy, Innovation, Monitoring & evaluation, Fundraising, Project management, Stress management, Problem solving, Planning skills.

And many other soft and hard skills that we provide to medical students upon their needs.

6. Projects Support Division

Vision:

This division ensures the quality of the various projects in the association, their effectiveness and success, and their timeline. And empower medical students to participate and take leadership roles in Activities and Projects that create impact, lead to positive change, and take on health leadership roles locally and nationally.

Mission:

• Educate our members about the various Activity Management topics producing a generation of skilled Activity Managers.

• Represent the ideas of the passionate medical students and help them implement those ideas in an Activity Management-Based.

• Coordinate the collaborative work between the various standing committees

• Encourage local committees to execute their ideas, start and sustain Activities and assist them in getting more exposure on the local and national levels.

Objectives:

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First: This division aims to make local coordinators able to manage projects until reaching the best possible goals by training them to plan well, then manage the project, continuously analyze all the phases of the project, and deal with any possible problems until they reach their primary goal.

• Second: This division aims to create a continuous communication between the local and national level to deliver any opportunities to members of the association, thus ensuring the quality of the various projects.

• Third: This division aims to collect all the different data on the projects throughout the year through continuous reports collected from the local coordinators to ensure the quality of the projects.

7. Research Division

Vision & Mission

The Research Support Division is responsible for the collection, processing, and assessment of data from ZMSSA projects. By collecting data, they construct a powerful database of our work within the association.

The mission is to build a powerful entity to engage medical students in ZMSSA in research work. They provide them with educational opportunities covering all research skills and methodologies. They develop research projects covering all ZMSSA committees’ topics. Implemented by ZMSSA members, these projects help improve their research skills. This is showcased in the annual scientific poster fair within IFMSA-Egypt.

There is also another, more clinical or academic aspect to research, that aims to provide its members with the knowledge and skills needed to later be able to take part in research papers in their professional life and that is through local and national workshops and seminars that could be with wellestablished partners in the field.

The Research Support Division must include any research activity related to other committees (ex: if any committee want to do needs assessment, surveys, or data collection. this is the responsibility of Research Support Division.)

Research Workshop in the Medicine and Beyond Conference in Faculty of medicine 2022

8. Publication and New Technologies Division

Vision:

The Division (PNSD) is responsible for all platforms of publicity for ZMSSA's work. In addition, it is responsible for the branding of the organization, and the sustainability of the communication platforms. The PNSD processes this work through a team of graphic designers, photo editors, video editors, social media team, and proofreaders.

Objectives:

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• Updating promotional materials and maintenance of ZMSSA Website and other online platforms.

9. Additional Teams

• Public Relation (PR) team: Responsible for representing ZMSSA Infront of externals and maintaining a good public image of the association.

• Organizing (OC)Team: Responsible for organizing and planning major events and conferences and campaigns.

• Human Resources (HR) Team: Responsible for scoring system and tracing members and chose best members to reward them, and to ensure the respect between all members

• Monitor and Evaluation (M&E) Team: Responsible for ensuring the sustainability of all ZMSSA projects and activities and follow up their quality.

• Fundraising (FR) Team: Preparing funding plans for ZMSSA projects and activities and establishing new sponsorships and deals for the association's members.

All teams held regular sessions and workshops to increase members skills in respective fields.

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