2014 THE AM POST: 4th Issue

THE AM POST AM in Taiwan

4th Issue 2014 August 09

Publisher Yang Han-Hsien Chan Chu-Yi

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Editor Yang Sheng Tseng Guan- Wei Chou Tzu-Jung Tien Hsuan-Ning Chen Chia-Ching Lee Nien Jung Ye Rui-Wen Wang Yu-Chiang Peng Jui-Hui Chen Yu -An Hsieh Yi-Ting Liu Chin-Hsuan Chan Shu-Yen Lin Han-Wen Photographer Hsu Ting-Jui Lin Yu Ning Tsai Bing-Han Li Chang Tseng Han-Po Chang Li-Chang Designer Chiang Yu Hsun Huang Yen-Lin Huang Chi-Hsien

(HOLIDAY?)

Available months for Incomings: (n0 of units/month) March

Yes

April

Yes

May

Yes

June

Yes

July

Yes

August

GA!

CULTURE NIGHT

September October

Yes

Yes

November

Yes

December

Yes

TONIGHT AT SONGSHAN 20:-00

January

Yes

February

Yes

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Activity Fair

Activity Fair which will bring down the medical cost for these patients. The role of medical students in this project is to sign contracts with researchers and ensure their work can be used for the global good.

“As you dig into the problem, you will discover how much more we can work on,” said Friha Aftab, the director of the project. This is not an easy road, but as we medical students put our efforts on this field, we can really change the pharmaceutical industry from bottom-up and increase the accessibility of medicine for everyone in the world.

Hsieh Yi-Ting, Liu Chin-Hsuan, Chou Tzu-Jung, Tien Hsuan-Ning, Chen Chia-Ching, Chan Shu-Yen, Lin Han-Wen My planet, my health Do you know that climate changes affect your health? Wenzhen from Canada brought us this idea that weather changes can bring us new infective agents that pose threats to our health. More importantly, her team has launched a new project, educating high school kids about this idea. With a great success, they are working on expanding the program.

Ideas worth spreading Information is always the key!!

Kimberley from Netherlands

showed us how ideas can be spread within the medical community more effectively with Global Medicine, an official global IFMSA-NF magazine. Students from all over the world can submit their articles and the articles will get published on the website.

To make things even easier for readers, the magazine can be sent to your home address. For more information, check out their website: www.globalmedicine.nl/ Increasing Accessibility to Medicines The NMSA (Norway) works with the Universities Allied for Essential Medicines (UAEM) for the access of medicines and researches. One of the two main aspects they focus on is raising the awareness of neglected diseases and getting more researchers and funds to work on them. The other is working on getting newly patented projects accessible to generic companies,

Dying, a human thing Based on the original idea from Poland, IFMSA Brazil presented the project,” Dying, a human thing”. We all know that death is something no one could escape from, even with the advanced medical progress nowadays. However, we also have to admit that only a few of us have the courage to face it.

Therefore, the project adopts the “three moments” in their activities to raise the awareness of this inevitable ending for everyone.

Also, they have lectures, workshops and special training for medical students to learn how to deal with the terminally-ill patients and their family. Besides, the project invites some patients to share their near-death experience to let the students have a better understanding of this topic. As doctors to be, we can't emphasize enough of the importance of an overall understanding of death.

Fighting Chance KuMSA brought us an interesting and inspiring project, called

甲午年

Contract Fair “Fighting Chance”. The main vision is about how to help medical students acquire more abilities of leadership, teamwork and management skills. By launching five specialty student teams: surgeries, medicine, pediatrics, OBGYN, psychiatry team, students are able to sign up for any of these teams at their will. Then, with the support of faculty, these teams engage themselves in activities, which allow them to explore their specialties, such as rotations, subspecialty orientation, surgical skills lab and so forth. At the end of the year, a competition would be held based on every team’s proposal to find out a golden team. According to the statistics, students in Kuwait who don’t know what specialty they want after graduation decreased from 29% to 13% after the project was launched.

Consequently, the founder thinks it might be helpful for medical students from all over the world if this project becomes international.

Beat the Burn “Beat the Burn”, the Malta SCOPH project, intends to raise awareness on excessive UV exposure and to prevent yourself from melanoma by simple skin examination and using sunscreens correctly.

Through numerous peer education sessions as well as the publication of RIPPLE magazine, the project gained increasing amount of popularity for the past 2 years. This year Beat the Burn is about to have more intriguing training workshop,

Contract Fair

During the contract fair, NOREs and NEOs around the world gathered to sign more than 2,000 exchange contracts for the next year. Everything could happen in the auditorium. You can find all kinds of souvenirs, traditional costumes, delicacies, just like a World Expo. Maybe ask the NORE or NEO beside you to learn about the interesting stories in the Room!

international collaboration, and promotional materials. The project definitely leaves great impression on many participants by its clear and simple brochures and the fascinating magazine including interesting comics and crossword puzzle. Contact information: scoph@mmsa.org.mt Rare Disease Day “Be as brave as the people we help.” This is the slogan of the project “Rare Disease Day” from IFMSA-Mexico. Rare diseases torture not only the patients, their families but also doctors. It will be much more relieving if medical students get to know them in the first place. Rare Disease Day is an educational event held on the last day of February annually.

The campaign includes joining hands, poster contest and museum of rare diseases. Rare Disease Day has been held for several years while more and more local charities getting involved.

Contact information: nome.ifmsa. mexico@gmail.com

STORYTELLING The STORYTELLING project aims to improve the mood of the children in the hospital, organized

by SCORP of IFMSA-El Salvador.

It dedicates itself in reducing the emotional damage of children admitted to the pediatric service and promoting education through reading. The obstacles it has confronted were limited space in the hospital, inflexible time schedules of medical students, and confined budget.

SCORA of IFMSA-Chile engaged in the TEAM CONDOM project, making efforts in preventing Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs) and HIV transmission all over the world. It also answers questions raised by the public on Facebook page (facebook.com/ ucclsex). The predicaments it faced include the conservative thinking of the people in Chile and the reluctance to promote this issue from the government and schools.

Contact information: nora@ifmsa. cl

2014.08.09 SAT

Social Program

Daytime Social Program

their artwork. A few of the larger puppets have movable eyelids, lower lips, and cheeks, altogether allowing them to make vivid facial expressions. Moreover, some can even breathe air from their nostrils in a sigh!

Jui-Hui Peng, Yu-An Chen

The puppet’s beauty is only matched by its complexity. If you had a chance to try controlling the puppet, you’ll find that it is a difficult task! It takes puppet masters years of training before they are allowed to perform. Strength and dexterity of every fingers is vital to bring life to the exquisitely carved works of art. Tonight, be sure to come out to the Cultural Night, where we have the honor of inviting a true master puppeteer to perform glove puppetry!

Taiwanese glove puppetry

On Thursday, Aug 7th, our Daytime Social Program team featured the art of Bu-dai-shi (Taiwanese glove puppetry) introduced by the YenChing Taiwanese Cultural Industry.

Glove puppetry has long been a popular form of entertainment in Taiwan, and holds a cherished place in the hearts of most Taiwanese adults—it was like their cartoon!

Even today, in the digital age, glove puppetry retains a stout fan base, who enjoy the incredibly detailed, handcrafted puppets and the engaging storylines.

Next to the calligraphy section is the Traditional toys section. Taiwanese traditional toys show not only our creativities in simpler times, but also present an important cultural heritage. For example, the bamboo d r a g o n f l y, o r i g i n a t e d i n C h i n a around 400 BCE, has changed very little. Children today play these same toys as children of Ancient

China! So, how about join the staffs in traditional toys section to know more about them? The counter will be available every day until August 10th.

Last but not least, don’t forget to bring your vouchers for food every day! Taiwanese cuisines such as panfried bun, rice noodle and steamed bun were provided. Get to try some chia-seeds-lemonade, which is also a fantastic traditional refreshing drink like pearl milk tea in Taiwan, and enjoy your breathing space with them!

The beauty of these puppets are perhaps not immediately appreciated, but each of the larger ones costs in excess of NT$ 300,000, or € 7500! This is truly an accurate reflection of the immense care and effort puppet craftsmen put into

SPOTLIGHT:

Culture Night Get a big dose of diversity at Culture Night!

One of the main reasons all of you came here to Taiwan is to experience a different culture. Well, how about experiencing hundreds of different cultures, in just one night?

In the past, Culture Night consisted of the Culture Show, where each delegation presented unique performances of their country. But of course that’s not all. This year, we’re introducing the brand new cultural beauty contest—Miss Medicine!

Look around you (or look in the

mirror); who will be the first ever Miss Medicine World? Come to the Culture Night to find out!