IFMSA Transnationa Projects Guide by AMSB Sofia

Table of contents Transnational Project

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ACTION

Breaking the Silence

Build Up Your Bones

Crossing Borders for Health

Daphne

Dying A Human Thing

Eating Disorders Awareness

Female Genital Mutilation

First Gynecological Consolation

For A Homophobia Free World

Go SCORP

Healthy Planet International

HY-5 Campaign on Hand Hygiene

IlluminAIDS

Mr and Mrs Breastestis

Northern European Cooperation for Sexual Education

Organ Donation Awareness

Peace Test

Research Workshop

Rex Crossley Awards

Scientific Opportunities Database

SCORA Twinning

SCORA X-Change

Sexual Education for Sex Workers

SHAPE

SmileX

Teddy Bear Hospital

WHO Simulations

Workshop on Peer Education for Medical Students

The Asian Collaborative Training on Infectious Diseases, Outbreak, Natural Disaster and Refugee Management (ACTION) Transnational Coordinator

Mariko Kondo IFMSA-Japan mkondo417@gmail.com

Project Description ACTION-Project aims to provide a chance to teach “Disaster Medicine” to medical students around the world especially in Asia-Pacific region as well as raising future leaders who can work initiatively under disasters and emergency situations regardless of border. Our activities can be divided to three obvious purposes: First, to raise medical students’ interest in “Disaster Medicine” and provide a chance for them to learn about it. Second, to inform medical students all over the world of the latest trend of “Disaster Medicine” and define the term “disaster, via IFMSA network. Third, to cultivate good partnerships with other countries, which play a crucial role on the spot of international medical stage in the future. So far, we undertake the following four actions: 1. 2. 3. 4.

Training camp every summer in an Asian country. Academic seminar in some countries. Publication – Project Presentation, Project Fair, Newsletters. Provide Training sessions and Workshops at the student congress.

Breaking the Silence Transnational Coordinator

Manolis Alevrakis HelMSIC – Greece manolis_ale@yahoo.gr

Project Description “Breaking the Silence” aims to establish a better way to interact and relate in the deaf/hard of hearing patient - doctor relationship. In a context in which hearing loss in its most severe form, affects an estimated 22.5 million Europeans and 28 million Americans, the number of work-related difficulties, educational delays, social stigmas and exclusion the economic impact of hearing loss is very high. Also, the difficulty that doctors encounter when trying to obtain the history from the deaf patient is well known. If a patient is deaf from birth or before speaking, he also loses automatically the ability to speak. For this reason, Breaking the Silence was developed in many countries. Breaking the Silence as a transnational project aims to create and promote a common platform for teaching medical students and young doctors how to communicate with the deaf patient. This will be done through:  Organizing Sign Language courses and Workshops for the benefit of students, young doctors and medical personnel in each of the countries participating in the project and for the IFMSA.  Conceiving basic sign language courses online.

Build up Your Bones Transnational Coordinator

Małgorzata Lurzyńska IFMSA – Poland rosaltito@gmail.com

Project Description “Build Up Your Bones” project consists of few activities and target groups: one of them are children that we educate in attractive ways (Bony- a mascot of the project, colorful books about Bony, etc.) how important it is to have strong bones. Other target group are parents and elderly people, especially women in post- and menopausal age. We provide them with information about prophylaxis of osteoporosis, they can also measure the risk of the fracture with FRAX method. Main goals:  

To raise awareness of osteoporosis. To assure the right education and prophylaxis among the society and explain to them the medical, social and economic problem resulting from the complications of osteoporosis

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Successful cooperation with Polish Osteoarthrology Society which is supporting our further actions. By 43 local actions IFMSA-Poland and TurkMSIC since 01/10/2011, we have reached more than 5000 people in kindergartens, Seniors Club and during events in the shopping malls. We used multimedia presentation, or speech, we also have FRAX calculator.

Furthermore “Build up Your Bones” is taking concrete steps against osteoporosis by organizing a celebration of World Osteoporosis Day (20th of October) through the following events:

 Health Festival in shopping malls where we offer the most popular preventive tests as well as direct examination of osteoporosis risk using the medically recognized FRAX tool.

 "Osteoporosis - Disease of a Million Fractures" Conference. The explanation of all the issues related to osteoporosis is clear for participants. Free entrance.

 The March of Nordic Walking combined with TAI-CHI workshops and calciumrich picnic.

Crossing Borders for Health Transnational Coordinator

Genna Verbeek AMSA – Australia glver2@student.monash.edu

Project Description “Crossing Borders for Health” is an international network of students whose mission is to remove barriers to healthcare for refugees, asylum seekers and undocumented migrants. Article 25 of the UN declaration of Human Rights declares that the right to healthcare should be assured in every country, for the entire population and we believe this statement applies to all individuals, regardless of immigration status. Unfortunately, in many countries, migrants often receive substandard levels of healthcare, if they receive any at all.  We believe that health is a universally recognized fundamental human right and that as future health professionals we are in the unique position to promote and defend the right to health for vulnerable populations.  Through education, direct assistance and campaigning for policy change, we aim to realize our belief that migrants receive the highest standard of healthcare, irrespective of immigration status. Crossing Borders for Health is an initiative to centrally coordinate projects in different countries to share resources, best practice guidelines, funding, in order to hopefully resolve these issues in the future.

Daphne Transnational Coordinator

Anna Szczegielniak IFMSA – Poland anna.szczegielniak@gmail.com

Project Description Few people understand the extensive impact of the problem of violence. There is a widely held stereotypic view that violence only occurs in run-down districts, and concerns women with low educational status. However, one in three women experiences physical or sexual violence from a partner in her lifetime, 80% stay with their abuser, and very few ever take legal action. These abused women are five times more likely to need mental health services and three times more likely to need other health services. Violence causes severe health deterioration across all mental and physical health measures. Doctors are often a first point of contact for women suffering from the effects of domestic violence; they should routinely inquire about physical, sexual, and psychological abuse as part of the medical history. “Daphne” was created to launch a huge campaign against sexual violence to increase the knowledge awareness and effectiveness of prevention of violence. The project is addressed to medical students- future doctors, to prepare them to respond appropriately to the issue of family violence. We want medical students to be aware of societal misconceptions eg. the belief that abuse is a rare occurrence; that abuse does not occur in "normal" families; that abuse is a private problem best resolved without outside interference; and that victims are responsible for the abuse. We speak out loud about the problem to break the silence of abused victims.

Dying a Human Thing Transnational Coordinator

Dorra Ben Hadj Ali ASSOCIAMED – Tunisia dorra.bha@gmail.com

Project Description "Dying a human thing" is a project addressed to all medical students who are interested in working with terminally ill patients. We want to teach future doctors how to give support to dying people. Through workshops with specialists we give answers to questions like:  “How to reveal fatal diagnosis to a patient?”  “How to talk to a family of a dying patient?”  “How to support my patient?” Sometimes the most obvious questions are the most difficult ones. The aim of the action is to create future doctors who will be ready to work with terminally ill patients. The project consists of workshops in small groups that are led by specialists who cooperate with terminally ill patients in their everyday life. This year we will be approach the project in many other ways such as the unexpected death of a young healthy person, the death of a new born, as well as the death of a terminally ill patient; we will try to help medical students by giving them tools that will help them deal with the most difficult and uncomfortable situation of announcing bad news.

Eating Disorder Awareness Project Transnational Coordinator

Tomasz Trojanowski IFMSA – Poland t.trojanowski@yahoo.com

Project Description The problem of eating disorders is often underestimated, quite unmatched by the extent to which it is prevalent. Actually, in some countries there is a rising threat of an epidemic. Unfortunately the majority of our societies is ignorant of this problem. The reason of such a low social awareness of this issue is the lack of widespread information. “Eating Disorders” (ED) is an umbrella transnational project aiming to unite medical students in a fight against eating disorders. Through our initiatives we want to provide medical students with knowledge and skills to help their patients, as well as to raise awareness of the problem among the general public. There are several projects organized within the Eating Disorders Transnational Project, such as:      

Fashion Show against anorexia and bulimia Peer Education Lessons Workshops for parents Workshops for Medical Students ED Campaigns Conferences

Through the Eating Disorders project, we want to expand our activities to reach more and more communities, and develop collaboration between international medical students.

Female Genital Mutilation Transnational Coordinator

MenatAllah El-Beheiry IFMSA – Egypt menna.elbeheiry@gmail.com

Project Description “Female Genital Mutilation” (FGM) awareness project is founded to fight against harmful practices that lead to serious damage and complications to mutilated females. This project is working in most of the poor developing countries due to religious and cultural beliefs. As medical students our mission is to: 1. Improve the knowledge about FGM among medical students and staff and community through health education, health campaigns and health days, 2. Produce medical students (future health care professionals) highly aware of the health problems that face mutilated females, and well trained on providing necessary health care to this vulnerable group, 3. Reflect the humanitarian activities of our students to the world, and establish collaborations and exchange of expertise with medical students worldwide, 4. Change the mistaken ideas about FGM in the community and the world.

First Gynaecological Consultation Transnational Coordinator

Michaela Barteková SloMSA – Slovakia hollow.bartekova@gmail.com

Project Description “First Gynaecological Consultation” is a project created by SCORA Team of IFMSAPoland, addressed to the young girls attending high schools or the last year in secondary schools (age 14-18) who are faced with their first gynecological consultation. The aim of the action is to share knowledge in 45 or 90 minute lessons about their:   

“First Gynaecological Visit” "Early Prevention of Breast Cancer and Cervical Cancer” Reproductive health problems that they may face beginning from the second decade of their lives

We try to help the girls in solving problems like:    

Fear before first gynecological examination Prevention of Sexually Transmitted Infection Incompetence in the self-breast examination Lack knowledge about prevention of uterine cancer

We decided that the "peer education" method will be the best way to reach the teenage girls, particularly when talking about sometimes embarrassing, difficult or private matters. We try to include information about contraception methods as well. We want the young girls to associate a gynecological examination with a step into the health future, not an unpleasant duty.

For A Homophobia Free World Transnational Coordinator

Johanna Katharina Reichel BVMD – Germany joka.reichel@gmx.net

Project Description For ages, people have been suffering from discrimination and prejudice due to their sexual orientation and gender identity. This is why we are trying to make a change in people ́s attitudes and mentality towards those with sexual orientations other than a heterosexual one, and their prejudices facing diverse gender identities. Thus, “For a Homophobia Free World” aims to promote acceptance towards non-heterosexual orientations around the world.

Go SCORP Transnational Coordinator

Andreea-Mihaela Rosca FASMR – Romania pi_roshca@yahoo.com

Project Description “Go SCORP” is an exchange project within IFMSA concerned with humanitarian work, launched by the joint efforts of the Romanian and Lebanese NMOs: FASMR and LEMSIC. It aims to establish a database that unites all the humanitarian projects run by the various Standing Committees on Human Rights and Peace around the world. This database would be accessible to all SCORP members. Consequently, they would be able to travel to the country of their choice and participate in the projects of interest to them.

Healthy Planet International Transnational Coordinator

Arthur Cheung AMSA â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Australia arthurtlcheung@gmail.com

Project Description Climate Change is the biggest global health threat of the 21st century, threatening to destabilize vulnerable populations and disrupt efforts to achieve the Millennium Development Goals. A) Education and mobilization. We believe that knowledge and education is central to any organization in public health and we have always focused on educating our members. We do not just raise awareness about climate change, but we aim to deliver meaningful information on climate change and public health so that students understand the issue scientifically. B) Reducing the carbon footprint of the health sector. We work closely with the NHS Sustainability Development Unit to reduce the carbon emissions of the health service. There are three key benefits: 1. Good for patient health, 2. Cost effective and reduces health service costs, 3. Good for the environment and significantly helps mitigate climate change without compromising patient care. C) Advocacy Make sure that the policies of our governments and international institutions work in the best interests of an equitable deal on climate change to protect global public health, especially of the most vulnerable and least accountable.

HY-Five Campaign on Hand Hygiene Transnational Coordinator

Amr Gamal IFMSA – Egypt amr.g.m.2010@gmail.com

Project Description The “Hand Hygiene Campaign” is a campaign with the vision of improving hand care and hand cleansing through the focused work of a group of dedicated trained students and specialists targeting the most vulnerable to infections. These include health care workers in health care institutes, medical and nursing schools as they are the future of health care and they will insure the continuity of the campaign, pre-school and school age children and young adults and the food services constitutes our third target group. The Campaign is divided into phases for each of the target groups aiming to achieve a better hand care and rising interest among each of the groups by conducting workshops on hand hygiene and trainings on its techniques; adding to that distributing publications on the latest advances in this field In a different aspect of this campaign we target the administrations of hospitals, restaurants, schools and the federal ministry of health, in order to implement new policies and regulations achieving the sustainability of the campaign.

The methodology used in this campaign is very simple:  Workshops in each of the target group which will aim at improving the target group’s awareness about the risks of poor hand hygiene and the best techniques to improve it  Posters, leaflets distributed in high risk areas within target group’s areas (Bathrooms, examinations areas in hospitals and kitchens in food handling department). All of these actions should add up to reach our goals and vision, and we will ensure that we have achieved each and every one of our objectives by conducting several series of surveys at the start and the end of each activity held, compiling all the data and processing it in order to see where the campaign is headed towards and if we need to make any changes in future actions. This is a simple easy to implement campaign that can be adopted by any group of active students to reach a better status of hand cleansing and reduce mortality and morbidity that is in direct and indirect relation with poor hand hygiene

IlluminAIDS

Transnational Coordinator

Keith Pace MMSA – Malta keithpace91@gmail.com

Project Description Zero Discrimination against People Living with HIV/AIDS! This is in short the vision this project aims at. Through peer-education, advocacy, input to medical curricula, and international collaboration, we aim at decreasing the marginalization, discrimination, and inappropriate treatment people living with HIV/AIDS encounter in the health-care settings. The “IlluminAIDS” project has been active since March 2011 and so far, we have been able to establish a lot of progress at the national levels and the international one.

Mr and Mrs BreasTestis Transnational Coordinator

Ljiljana Lukic CroMSIC – Croatia lukic.ljilja@gmail.com

Project Description “Mr and Mrs BreasTestis” is a SCORA project that involves medical students to interact with the patients, as well as general population and high school students through peer education while promoting prevention and early detection of these reproductive neoplasms (breast, cervix, testis and prostate). Vision of Mr and Mrs BreasTestis is:  Every female and male to live healthy lives free of reproductive neoplasms,  Their communities and physicians sensitized, equipped and supportive,  Their reproductive rights well respected. It is a reproductive neoplasms prevention project that aims to assess and to educate medical students’ and public knowledge on Reproductive Neoplasms, and to foster interdisciplinary and multi-sector approach to prevention / health promotion, in order to develop a coherent response to current global cancer burden. The project has many interesting activities such as:  

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Peer education lectures and workshops for medical students and for high schools. Clinical activities for medical students with doctors at internal medicine department and oncology department where they can get involved and get to know oncology patients and how to approach them. Big campaigns for these four cancers, such as “Run for the cure”.

Northern European Cooperation for Sex Education (NECSE) Transnational Coordinator

Howraman Meteran IMCC – Denmark hmeteran@gmail.com

Project Description “Northern European Cooperation of Sex Education” (NECSE) projects is held annually in March or April, NECSE is a 4-5 day conference where members of various peer-led sex and relationships education projects can get together to share teaching methods and ideas, network, and teach others about their respective cultures. NECSE is attended by members of 12 countries: UK, Finland, Austria, Switzerland, Poland, Estonia, Sweden, Iceland, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands and Norway. NECSE is normally attended by 50-70 students, held over the Easter weekend, and in a remote location to encourage group bonding. The method of exchange is the main purpose of NECSE- every country brings their own sex education lessons or games to teach to the rest of the group, to allow sharing and improvement of teaching methods. In addition to method exchange, keynote speakers present on topics surrounding the conference theme.  

In 2011 Finland presented a conference exploring sex, gender and culture. In 2012 the UK will explore sexual morality.

Organ Donation Awareness Transnational Coordinator

Hülya Şahin TurkMSIC – Turkey hulyasahinn@yahoo.com.tr

Project Description The main goal of the “Organ Donation Awareness” project is to educate medical students about the process of organ donation and organ transplantation. Medical students which receive some education on this issue are more likely to have a positive approach to the organ donation process, and will be capable of providing their parents, friends and communities with all the information needed while deciding to become organ donors. The duration of the project on the transnational level (since 2005) gives us confirmation that we're doing the right activities in the right places (lectures, workshops, public oriented campaign, promotion within the students) and hope that it will continue.

Peace Test Transnational Coordinator

Joana Esteves PorMSIC – Portugal joana.xtvx@gmail.com

Project Description The “Peace Test” project is based on an internationally conducted survey that uses a questionnaire that measures youths’ attitudes towards human rights, violence, war and multiculturalism. The theory behind the questionnaire is called “the theory of moral disengagement” which helps to understand how and why people commit violent acts. The main goal is to:    

Raise awareness of these issues among students and through that be one method of preventing violence and promoting tolerance and equality. Open discussion both among the youth and the general public about the topics mentioned above. Reduce the level of support both to individual and collective violence, and to promote peaceful alternatives. Form an international network of involved students and to use their results for international comparison.

Research Workshop Transnational Coordinator

Mohammed Dany LeMSIC – Lebanon dany.mohammed@gmail.com

Project Description The “Research Workshop” is a course designed to teach medical students how to become GOOD consumers and producers of research. Nowadays, research has become essential in medicine. Without research, medical practice would be outdated, and we -as students- would not be able to pursue competitive medical programs. In other terms, research has now become a pre-requisite for excellence. Unfortunately, in most of our medical curricula, there is no formal teaching of the proper way of conducting research. Therefore we believe that SCORE plays a vital role in trying to fill this gap, as is dictated by SCORE’s ultimate aim of promoting research. To achieve its purpose, the Research Workshop was designed to be an interactive course, and thus can only accommodate a maximum of 25 highly motivated students. The course syllabus is designed by experienced SCORE members who are knowledgeable about research, with the guidance of faculty members well established in research. Through its syllabus, the course takes the student from having a topic of interest, to   

Formulating a specific research question, Designing an experiment to prove the hypothesis, Writing the research proposal that will be used to apply for ethical committee approval and/or funding at the end of the course.

This whole process ensures that the student has been extensively involved in the critical thought process that prevails in the field of research. After that, the students are expected to actively engage in their projects, whether they opted for basic or clinical research. This year, the Research workshop is being held for the 4th consecutive year by LeMSIC-SCORE in Lebanon. Also, since the attainment of TNP status in MM11, the 2nd Research Workshop will be held by AMSB-SCORE in Bulgaria. Other NMOs are also currently involved in starting their own chapters of Research Workshop with the help and guidance of LeMSIC-SCORE. All interested NMOs are encouraged to approach us so we can work closely together and establish your own chapters of the Research Workshop and contribute to the making of better physicians and researchers. For further information, contact us at researchworkshop.tnp@gmail.com

Rex Crossley Awards Transnational Coordinator

Eugenia Roza FASMR – Romania roza_eugenia@yahoo.com

Project Description The “Rex Crossley Awards” transnational project has one of the most beautiful, but at the same time challenging, job in the projects division. Twice every year it must bring together, analyze, evaluate and reward the best ideas and projects in the IFMSA. It is a one of a kind activity and it represents the peak, the point everybody wants to reach: recognition. And the best part is that the evaluation is not done by any official but by the project coordinators themselves, because who can speak about IFMSA's vision if not the people that are struggling to accomplish it every day? The Rex Crossley Awards is all about competition, motivation and breaking new frontiers. All of these put together create an atmosphere were projects can be born, grow and change lives.

Scientific Opportunities Database Transnational Coordinator

Roxana Ile FASMR â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Romania ilie_roxana2004@yahoo.com

Project Description â&#x20AC;&#x153;Scientific Opportunities Databaseâ&#x20AC;? is a project comprised of a network that contains information concerning various scientific manifestations related to the entire medical community from all over the world, such as congresses, meetings, workshops and others. Also, we aim at involving more and more NMOs, so that they could use this database to present and promote their scientific activities for medical students.

SCORA Twinning Transnational Coordinator

Petar Mas CroMSIC – Croatia nora@cromsic.hr

Project Description “SCORA Twinning” project is a cooperation of SCORA teams involved in peer education from 2 to 3 different NMOs through training and twinning during 3 to 4 days. Training offers experience and exchange methods, as well as a way to gain skills in facilitating group discussions in order to develop strategies to handle delicate teenage issues.

Twinning means making new friends and future collaborators through familiar environment in small groups, hosting guest participants in their homes and bringing together different cultures through time spent intensively together.

SCORA X-Change Transnational Coordinator

Agnieszka Bogusz IFMSA – Poland aga.bogusz@yahoo.com

Project Description What is it? “SCORA X-change” is a 3 – 4 week long unilateral exchange program for medical students, focused on sexuality , reproductive health and rights related issues, and provides opportunities to get informed about the medical services of the hosting country’s healthcare system and civil society related mainly to HIV/AIDS , as well as the country's prospective about HIV/AIDS global epidemic.

Why SCORA X-change? This program offers a chance to medical students to learn, gain experience and expand their knowledge, build practical skills and share ideas with local students and healthcare professionals, in the areas of HIV/AIDS, sexual and reproductive health as well as other SCORA related issues. This exchange aims on providing medical students with the opportunity to share experiences, learn about the situation in different countries and compare it to their home country. SCORA X-change is not a purely scientific experience; it is also about exploring new cultures, meeting new people and gaining friends from all over the world. During your clerkship, a social program is also organized in order to give you the chance of sightseeing and exploring the countries culture.

Sexual Education for Sex Workers Transnational Coordinator

Luis David Aguilar Murillo APEMH – Peru seswo@apemh.com

Project Description The “Sexual Education for Sex Workers (SESWO)” project aims to educate commercial sex workers in sexual and reproductive health and rights issues, to teach them the most relevant things that they need to know to be able to care for themselves and for the people they work with. Furthermore it emphasizes women’s empowerment by making them aware of their rights and thus becoming responsible for their lives. We try to make the sex workers understand the importance of prevention of STDs and HIV and health issues such as constant gynecological and psychological check-ups and consultations.

Sexual Health and Peer Education Transnational Coordinator

Hollie Kluczewski Medsin – UK coordinator@sexpression.org.uk hollie.kluczewski@ncl.ac.uk

Project Description Mission Our mission is to create awareness amongst teenagers worldwide about their choices on the subject of sexuality, relationships and puberty; as well as to reduce the frequency of STI’s and unwanted pregnancies. Aims and objectives The aims of SHAPE are the following: 1. To make teenagers aware of their choices with respect to sexuality, love and puberty. 2. To make before mentioned subjects discussible with teenagers. 3. To decrease the frequency of STI’s by promoting safe sex and correct usage of condoms. 4. To decrease the frequency of unwanted pregnancies by giving information on available contraceptive methods. 5. To create and further develop teaching abilities and the competence in the field of sexology in future doctors. Methods: 1. Peer Education. 2. Training of peer educators. 3. Providing a structured lesson.

SmileX Transnational Coordinator

Marcello Manchisi SISM – Italy heymarce81@gmail.com

Project Description With the “SmileX” project we try to solve some problems divided into 3 main topics: 1. Health: For the World Health Organization, it is a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. We need to fight diseases completely, and we think that a smile could help just about everybody. We already want to fight the stress that patients experience in hospitals that has a very large negative impact on the treatment process 2. Healthcare system: Hospitals today are not the ideal place to find health. Doctors fight with diseases but moreover with economic budget. They want to be efficient but they have lot of patients and few time for each of them. We aim to introduce in the treatment protocols some love in all sorts of ways: “clownerie”, poetry, magic tricks or simply hugs and smiles. 3. Educational model: We want to teach to the future doctors how to be happy, funny and optimistic to care about people and not be afraid of the physical approach. We want to teach medical student how to approach patients in an unconventional way, not only pediatrics but also adults and oldest.

Teddy Bear Hospital Transnational Coordinator

Pilar Foncillas AECS – Catalonia pilarfbarron@gmail.com

Project Description “Teddy Bear Hospital” (TBH) is a Public Health project addressed to children in the pre-school age (3-6 years) aiming to take away their fear of physicians and hospitals. Also, it gives a good opportunity for medical students to work with children. TBH tries to familiarize children with hospital environment in a friendly and playful way. For achieving this goal, trained medical students will act as teddy doctors, while the children involved in the project have to be the parents of their teddy bear or doll. So, now the children are the “adults” responsible for their teddy bear patients which will be treated in the “Teddy Bear Hospital”. The hospital can be organised in a decorated colourful tent on a big square in the city centre, as well as in a school's GYM, a hall in a kindergarten or in a Hospital or University ... The kindergartens of the city will be invited to visit the hospital. But the hospital is also open for other children and their parents. Before their visit to our “hospital” the nanny or nurse should discuss and talk with the children about “being ill”, physicians and hospitals. The children should think about diseases for their dolls which will be treated later in the “Teddy Bear Hospital”. Then, they have to explain the history of the present illness of their teddy bear to a teddy doctor. Together they make an anamnesis and after this the teddy doctor does a “physical examination” (e.g. palpation, auscultation…) and further diagnostics (e.g. “XRay”). Finally the teddy doctor writes a prescription and the child can get some “medicine” sweets in the “TBH- Pharmacy”.

WHO Simulations Transnational Coordinator

Kenrry Chiu IFMSA – Quebec kenrry.chiu@gmail.com

Project Description The “World Health Organization (WHO) Simulations” Transnational Project aims to foster interest in global health and health policy, which are areas often neglected in the health education curriculum. Our team aims to help students appreciate the impact of health policy on the health of populations and individuals, in a world where health care delivery and health inequities has proven repeatedly as one of the most contentious political issues worldwide. With this in mind, our International Committee provides support to NMOs to establish simulations of the World Health Assembly of the WHO. These simulations provide participants an engaging, enjoyable way for students and young professionals to appreciate the sociopolitical factors that influence health outcomes. At a WHO simulation, participants act as delegates from designated UN Member States or non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to discuss health issues in regional and plenary sessions. The simulations provide a forum for participants to actively develop public speaking skills, debate key issues in global health and contribute to a written declaration that will be submitted to the WHO in Geneva. Over the course of a simulated WHO conference, delegates research, debate, and apply their diplomacy skills to formulate resolutions in keeping with their respective countries’ health policy. Delegates eventually vote on resolutions to devise a consensus document. Previous topics of discussion in past simulations have included maternal and child health, pandemic preparedness and access to essential medicines.

Workshop on Peer Education for Medical Students Transnational Coordinator

Agnieszka Cieniewicz IFMSA – Poland a.cieniewicz@gmail.com

Project Description The “Workshop on peer education for medical students” project’s aim is twofold: 1. To help NMO's to establish Peer Education programs if they don't already have their own 2. To help those NMO's with already established Peer Education Programs to build on their skills through its workshops. These workshops occur on an annual basis within the participating NMO's with this year's workshop happening on August 25-26th, in Lebanon, with the primary focus being on how to cater your peer education sessions to your particular audience.

Algeria (Le Souk) Argentina (IFMSA-Argentina) Armenia (AMSP) Australia (AMSA) Austria (AMSA) Azerbaijan (AzerMDS) Bahrain (IFMSA-BH) Bangladesh (BMSS) Belgium (BeMSA) Bolivia (IFMSA Bolivia) Bosnia and Herzegovina (BoHeMSA) Bosnia and Herzegovina - Rep. of Srpska (SaMSIC) Brazil (DENEM) Brazil (IFMSA Brazil) Bulgaria (AMSB) Burkina Faso (AEM) Burundi (ABEM) Canada (CFMS) Canada-Quebec (IFMSA-Quebec) Catalonia - Spain (AECS) Chile (IFMSA-Chile) China (IFMSA-China) Colombia (ASCEMCOL) Costa Rica (ACEM) Croatia (CroMSIC) Czech Republic (IFMSA CZ) Denmark (IMCC) Ecuador (IFMSA-Ecuador) Egypt (EMSA) Egypt (IFMSA-Egypt) El Salvador (IFMSA El Salvador) Estonia (EstMSA) Ethiopia (EMSA) Finland (FiMSIC) France (ANEMF) Georgia (GYMU) Germany (BVMD) Ghana (FGMSA) Greece (HelMSIC) Grenada (IFMSA-Grenada) Haiti (AHEM) Hong Kong (AMSAHK) Hungary (HuMSIRC) Iceland (IMSIC) India (MSAI) Indonesia (CIMSA-ISMKI) Iran (IFMSA-Iran) Israel (FIMS) Italy (SISM) Jamaica (JAMSA) Japan (IFMSA-Japan) Jordan (IFMSA-Jo) Kenya (MSAKE) Korea (KMSA)

Kurdistan - Iraq (IFMSA-Kurdistan/Iraq) Kuwait (KuMSA) Kyrgyzstan (MSPA Kyrgyzstan) Latvia (LaMSA Latvia) Lebanon (LeMSIC) Libya (LMSA) Lithuania (LiMSA) Luxembourg (ALEM) Malaysia (SMAMMS) Mali (APS) Malta (MMSA) Mexico (IFMSA-Mexico) Mongolia (MMLA) Montenegro (MoMSIC Montenegro) Mozambique (IFMSA-Mozambique) Nepal (NMSS) New Zealand (NZMSA) Nigeria (NiMSA) Norway (NMSA) Oman (SQU-MSG) Pakistan (IFMSA-Pakistan) Palestine (IFMSA-Palestine) Panama (IFMSA-Panama) Paraguay (IFMSA-Paraguay) Peru (APEMH) Peru (IFMSA Peru) Philippines (AMSA-Philippines) Poland (IFMSA-Poland) Portugal (PorMSIC) Romania (FASMR) Russian Federation (HCCM) Rwanda (MEDSAR) Saudi Arabia (IFMSA-Saudi Arabia) Serbia (IFMSA-Serbia) Slovakia (SloMSA) Slovenia (SloMSIC) South Africa (SAMSA) Spain (IFMSA-Spain) Sudan (MedSIN-Sudan) Sweden (IFMSA-Sweden) Switzerland (SwiMSA) Taiwan (IFMSA-Taiwan) Tanzania (TAMSAz) Tatarstan-Russia (TaMSA-Tatarstan) Thailand (IFMSA-Thailand) The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (MMSA-Macedonia) The Netherlands (IFMSA-The Netherlands) Tunisia (ASSOCIA-MED) Turkey (TurkMSIC) Uganda (FUMSA) United Arab Emirates (EMSS) United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (Medsin-UK) United States of America (AMSA-USA) Venezuela (FEVESOCEM)