AM2017 Follow-up Report

AM 2017 Follow-up Report

66th General Assembly

August Meeting 2017 Arusha, Tanzania

A message from the IFMSA President

Dear readers, I have the greatest honor to write this introduction message of the report of our second and last General Assembly of the 2016/17 term.

This General Assembly was not only an opportunity to gather medical students from around the world, but it also was the perfect spot for us to celebrate a year of hard work and commitments. More than a year of preparations was necessary to make this meeting a success. The Organizing Committee has worked with great passion to make this event logistically well organized and financially stable. Additionally, our IFMSA Officials have also worked hard with their assistants and volunteers to prepare all the content of the sessions, and build capacity among all participants.

Out of all the unique memories that made this event special, I have to say that I would remember most especially two successes from this August Meeting in Tanzania: The first one being the adoption of the IFMSA's Strategy 2017/20, as we worked for more than a year on it, consulted our stakeholders, compiled over hundred pages of input and presented a final document to the Assembly. This truly was a thorough and complicated process that I was personally happy to see it adopted nemo contra. The second success is the organization of the meeting itself, as I could say with confidence that the Organizing Committee exceeded all expectations. This will hopefully open doors to African NMOs to host more IFMSA meetings and bring medical students from all around the world closer to them.

It was truly an honor to finish my term as President after this amazing meeting hosted by TAMSA-Tanzania, and I could never be grateful enough to the Organizing Committee and my Team of Officials for making it a success.

Now, I would invite you to read through this report to find out more about what made this meeting so special.

Until we meet again, Omar Cherkaoui IFMSA President 2016/17

August Meeting 2017 at one glance

854

109

Participants

NMOs represented

Pre-General Assembly Meeting

242 ● ● ●

Participants trained

8

Workshops

IFMSA Plan of Action: Developing Human Resources for Health within the SDG3 Framework Biggest NMO representation in an IFMSA meeting Adoption of IFMSA Strategy 2017/2020

IFMSA Team of Officials 2016/17

From left to right Hana Lucev, Vice-President for Activities elect, Croatia Amela Hamidovic, Vice-President for Finances elect, Serbia Iris Tomlow, International Secretary, The Netherlands Salma Abdalla, Supervising Council Member, Sudan Stintje Dijk, Supervising Council, The Netherlands Omar Cherkaoui, President, Morocco Batool Ahmad Ali Al-Wahdani, Liaison Officer to Student Organizations and Vice-President for External Affairs elect, Jordan Amine Lotfi, Liaison Officer to the World Health Organization (WHO), Morocco Marian Sedlak, Liaison Officer to Human Rights and Peace issues, Slovakia Carles Pericas Escale, Liaison Officer for Sexual and Reproductive Health issues incl. HIV/AIDS, Spain-Catalonia Alexander Shawn Lachapelle, Liaison Officer for Medical Education issues, Canada-Quebec Priit Tohver, Regional Director for Europe, Estonia Sharif Aqeel Salim Alsharif Ba Alawi, Regional Director for the Eastern Mediterranean Region, Oman Satria Nur Sya’ban, Regional Director for AsiaPacific and Vice-President for Members elect, Indonesia Ivan Fabrizzio Canaval Diaz, Regional Director Americas, Peru

Magnifique Irakoze, Regional Director for Africa, Rwanda Jessica Zhang, Standing Committee on Human Rights and Peace Director, Sweden Mauro Henrique Batista Camacho, Standing Committee on Research Exchange Director, Brazil Carlos Andres Acosta Casas, Standing Committee on Sexual and Reproductive Health incl. HIV/AIDS Director and President elect, Brazil Eleonora Dafne Frau, Standing Committee on Public Health Director, Switzerland Rodrigo Enrique Brito Roa Sarmento, Standing Committee on Professional Exchange Director, Brazil Arij Chatbri, Standing Committee on Medical Education Director, Tunisia Firas Yassine, Vice-President for Public Relations and Communications, Lebanon Andrej Martin Vujkovac, Vice-President for Capacity Building, Slovenia Marie Hauerslev, Vice-President for External Affairs, Denmark Monica Lauridsen Kujabi, Vice-President for Members, Denmark Joakim Bergman, Vice-President for Finances, Sweden Dominic Schmid, Vice-President for Activities, Switzerland Missing Skander Essafi, Liaison Officer for Public Health issues, Tunisia Diogo Martins, Supervising Council, Portugal Koen Demaegd, Supervising Council, Belgium

August Meeting 2017 Organizing Committee

From left to right Mercy, Vice-President for Activities elect, Croatia Martin Ngonyani, Theme event Rodgers S. Swai, Chairperson Wahida H. Mtiro, Vice-Chairperson Natasha Said Ali, Secretary General Farida Abdallah, Fundraising and logistics Alumni Emmanuel Mduma, Finances Theonestina Amos, Finances Rebecca Mwambegele, Logistics Biswalo M. Yango, Sponsors and Donors Yonaz Senkondo, Publicity Arwaa Januwallah, Publicity Hans Olomi, Social activities Rahma Abeid, PostGA Deusdedit Kapufi, PostGA Gambuna Koya, Theme event Desire Ruhinda, Logistics Salma A. Kambagha, Registration

Missing Magdalene A. Utouh, Assistant Secretary General Evelyne Mushi, Sponsors and Donors Roman Shao, Sponsors and Donors Zaid Sangey, Sponsors and Donors Elton Roland, Theme Event Christian Mwalo, Registration John Williams, Visa David Mwaipaya, PreGA Simon Shuma, Logisctics Bernard Kivuma, Logistics Reginald Mnjokava, Logistics William Changalima, Logistics Ashabilan Abdulkarim, Publicity Sakina-Iffat Habib, Publicity Naima Morawej, Social activities Gerald Makuka, PostGA Alumni

Table of Contents 1. Pre-General Assembly Workshops 2. Morning Sessions

6 13

Standing Committees, Presidents’ Sessions, NMO Management Sessions

3. Regional Sessions

25

4. Theme Event

29

SDG 3

5. Activities

30

Rex Crossley Award, Activities Fair

6. Contract Fair

33

7. Joint Sessions 8. Capacity Building Sessions

37

9. Program Sessions

38

10. Miscellaneous Sessions

41

Policy Discussions, Networking, Plenary

11. The General Assembly in Numbers

43

Pre-General Assembly Workshops

24 Public Health Leadership Training on Mental Health

Background

Participants

20

Countries

Facilitators Nishwa Azeem

"The Three pillars of the PHLT: RA SCOPH AP Leadership pillar: it includes all of the sessions necessary to encourage the development of a well-rounded leader. Starting with the basics of leadership, the Ahmad Abbadi workshop helps participants improve their communication skills, team dynamic RA SCOPH EMR knowledge and finally enters into more complex communication examples such as conflict management, advocacy and feedback.

Sarah Maitho Public Health Knowledge pillar (Mental Health): it includes all of the basic MSAKE Kenya knowledge every Public Health practitioner should have: levels of prevention, social determinants of health, public/national/international health, the difference between public health and clinical medicine, and sessions on basics of Mental Health.

Activity Management pillar: with knowledge about the issue, and the ability to form and lead a team, the only thing missing is the knowledge and skills to be able to address issues. This is where the Activity Management pillar comes in.

Goals A. Participants gain Leadership skills B. Participants will improve their knowledge of Public Health C. Participants will improve their Activity Management skills D. Participants will exercise points A, B, C and D through practical exercises.

Outcomes The expected outcome is for the participants to carry out an activity using the knowledge and skills provided in the workshop, an evaluation form is sent after 6 months which in addition to other evaluation also has a section on the details of the activity they conducted and subsequently a PHLT certificate will be issued.

26 From Idea to Impact

Participants

Countries

Facilitators

Background and Goals

Pelle Harris Krog IMCC Denmark

Project management skills.

Marie My Warborg Larsen IMCC Denmark

Outcomes Helping participants facilitate the workshop in their NMOS (and at RM's). Sharing materials.

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25

15

Women's Reproductive Health and Safe Abortion Participants

Background and Goals

Countries

Facilitators Emmeli Mikkelsen

Unsafe abortion is one of the leading contributors to maternal mortality and Maternal Health and Access to Ssafe morbidity. On a global level, 22 million unsafe abortions are estimated to take place Abortion Program Coordinator every year, which results in the death of an estimated 47,000 women annually and more than 5 million complications such as haemorrhage, infection, and trauma to Carles Pericas the genital and abdominal organs, resulting in severe chronic morbidities. Barriers LRA to safe abortion services as very strict abortion laws and policies, gender discrimination, social and cultural beliefs, abortion related stigma, as well as lack of Carlos Acosta facilities, lack of trained personnel and cost of services put women at risk of unsafe SCORA-D abortions every day.

The goal of the workshop is to build capacity and commitment in IFMSA to take action for safe abortion. The training covers several related topics as human, sexual and reproductive rights; abortion laws and policies; barriers to access care, including stigma; safe abortion methods; identification and referral of women with abortionrelated complications, etc. The workshop also includes information and activities on values clarification for abortion attitude transformation, as well as youth participation and leadership.

Outcomes In order to assess the outcomes, we made a pre- and post-workshop assessment. Here, the participants were asked to answer 4 questions and strongly agree, agree, be neutral, disagree or strongly disagree on 10 statements. From these responses, we saw a positive change in the participants’ knowledge, beliefs and attitudes towards abortion in the post-workshop assessment compared to the pre-workshop assessment. Furthermore, the workshop has prepared the participants to take action for safe abortion and how to make women-centered comprehensive abortion care as future healthcare providers.

Pre-workshop assessment

Post-workshop assessment

Participants of Women's Reproductive Health and Safe Abortion workshop at August Meeting 2017

15 Human Rights for Medical Practitioners

Participants

Background and Goals ‘Human Rights for Medical Practitioners - Advanced Training in Human Rights and Ethical Principles in Clinical Settings’ is a three day workshop, which intends to deepen the understanding of human rights and ethical principles among students and to equip them with skills and attitudes to stand up and advocate for them in clinical settings. We believe that these skills are crucial for future health workers, in order for us to truly prevent and alleviate suffering in different settings. Nevertheless, members often witness a lack of education on ethics and human rights within their medical curriculum.

13

Countries

Facilitators Hana Awil Children’s Health Coordinator

and

Rights

Program

Ugonna Nwankpa SCORP Development Assistant

Faisal Mohamed Osman Magzoub MedSIN Sudan

Daniela Kresse Throughout the workshop we first build up theory and basic knowledge to bring AMSA Austria participants on the same level, then we continued to approach more complex societal topics to develop a further comprehension and finally the new found knowledge was used and we practised what was learned by debating, acting out simulations and discussing.

With this workshop we intended to instill core values within our generation’s youth and future practitioners, and contribute to a behavioural change where human rights have the fullest respect and health professionals are given the tools to advocate for the rights of their patients.

Outcomes The participants were presented with the basics of human rights and medical ethics, and gained tools to address ethical dilemmas as well as structural injustice. Further, methods of how to influence society were discussed. The materials will be shared with the participants, hoping for them to implement activities within their national organizations. As the participants represented a diverse range of backgrounds and nationalities, they also had a fruitful exchange of experience and interesting discussions, learning more about the situation in different countries across the world.

Participants of the Human Rights for Medical Practitioners training at August 2017

27 Presidents’ PreGA

Participants

26

Countries

Facilitators

Goals 1) To enhance the skills of the participants in specific areas related to being an NMO representative and leader 2) To give participants concrete tools and plans to develop their own NMOs

Line Damsgaard Environment Coordinator

and

Health

Program

Torsten Vinding Merinder IMCC-Denmark

Clear Objectives

Georg Schwarzl AMSA-Austria

1) Participants have developed their knowledge and skills in topics as motivation of members, leadership, recruitment and strategic planning (to be decided based on a survey shared prior to the PreGA) 2) Participants are confident about the opportunities IFMSA provide to NMOs and how to manage them in the NMO 3) Participants have learned tools and theories related to organisational development, which can be used in their NMOs 4) Participants have done a full analysis of their NMOs, including strengths and weaknesses and decided on which areas should be improved 5) Participants have developed a plan for future interventions to develop their own NMO 6) Creation of NMO partnerships that have similar organisational challenges

Outcomes Based on the Organisational Development stream all participants identified areas and actions for their NMO. The facilitators have reached out to the participants to offer follow up online meetings in order to discuss and give advice to them ad for the participants so share experiences.

17 Training New Medical Education Trainers (TMET)

Goals Enable participants to: 2. Understand IFMSA’s medical education priorities, internally and externally 3. Play an active role in education processes 4. Make informed decisions as partners in the educational process 5. Represent their organization towards faculties and national and international organizations 6. Pass on their knowledge as trainers in Medical Education 7. Develop expertise on the field of advocacy, both internal and external

Participants

Countries

Facilitators Katerina Dima SCOME General Assistant

Dino Mehic SCOME Development Assistant

Tessa Noijons IFMSA NL

Catarina Pais Rodrigues ANEM Portugal

Outcomes

12

Participants: 1. Understood basic concepts in medical education (such as curriculum, assessment evaluation) as well as more advanced concepts such as social accountability and meaningful student engagement 2. Came to know better IFMSA work in medical education, internally and externally and what are the global priorities 3. Practiced, through a variety of exercises and techniques, the theories that were presented 4. Developed confidence in their own training and leadership skills, especially related to medical education topics 5. Developed important connections with participants from different parts of the world 6. Grasped the concept of advocacy in detail

17 Training New Exchanges Trainers (TNET) Background and Goals To make sure SCOPE and SCORE are run in the best way and accordingly to the IFMSA, SCOPE and SCORE missions, there is a workshop called Professional and Research Exchange Training (PRET) that enables Local and National Officers of SCOPE and SCORE to improve their knowledge about the exchange programs so they can develop their own program on local and national level and, by doing so, raise the academic and cultural quality of the exchanges. To always be able to assure the quality of those events and to empower medical exchange officers worldwide, SCOPE and SCORE created the workshop Training New Exchange Trainers (TNET), a three days workshop that aims to create high quality and well knowledged new exchange trainers, who are themselves skilled to train others in exchange management and exchanges related topics, so to initiate a better based exchange program in every NMO, through the provision of tools to successfully manage all aspects of the SCOPE and SCORE Exchange programs.

Participants

13 Countries

Facilitators Kate Wang SCORE General Assistant

Basma Lahmer SCORE RA EMR

Kasia Leszczynska SCORE RA Europe

Bilal Mustafa SCOPE RA EMR

Outcomes This TNET, as the previous have been, was successful, and has empowered all of its participants and given them the tools to share knowledge about exchanges through well prepared relevant trainings. They have grown more confident, skilled and have formed bonds with each other throughout the few days we spent with them, and we wish them all the best in all of their future endeavours.

Participants of Training New Exchanges Trainers at August Meeting 2017

16 Training New Trainer (TNT)

Participants

Background and Goals Despite a great recent change in the structure of IFMSA, there is still a significant importance we give to training as a tool to increase knowledge and skills of our members. Moreover, today we increasingly realise how this tool can be used strategically to influence not only the development of individual skill. It can be used to achieve organisational maturity and sustainability through careful planning and execution of the right session and workshops.

11

Countries

Facilitators Birk Malte, Nys Bähemann CB RA Europe

Felicitas Berger BeMSA Belgium

Jose Chan ANEM Portugal

To keep the system of non-formal education in our federation running by educating new trainer and introducing them into the world of peer-to-peer education. Our Hassan Kamal, Eldin Hassan main target group are students interested in learning processes and improving their Medsin Sudan organisations. Training New Trainer is a workshop aiming to educate 12-20 new trainers.

Trainer are individuals who can prepare and conduct training sessions and workshops with a certain quality. Beside sessions for personal development, the workshop includes sessions about: Feedback & Evaluation, Communication, Motivation, Presentation Skills, Facilitation, Improvisation, Public Speaking, Resources, Intercultural Learning, Trainings Design, Training Simulation and Group Dynamics. These are topics that the new trainers are expected to be able to deliver after the workshop, however are also encouraged to expand their learning further.

Outcomes The workshop has produced 16 new trainers from 11 countries, who now can conduct training under supervision. Additionally, 13 of the trainers have conducted their training sessions at the August Meeting, making them eligible for full certification. The remaining three trainers will need to conduct their first training session in the presence of an older trainer to ensure that they are ready to train. This will be ensured through the work of the VPCB (together with the IT) in contact with the national officers.

Morning Sessions

80 Standing Committee on Medical Education (SCOME)

Topics covered The topics were distributed in themes each day: Day 1: Introductions to Medical Education, IFMSA Programs and Human Resources for Health to prepare the participants for the theme event.

Day 2: Pure ME knowledge with a ME Trivia to test participant's knowledge and a training session on Curriculum design and development.

Day 3: ME and society as a change with a general session about Social accountability within medical schools to move to parallels according to experience level: SA and students and Meaningful students' involvement.

Day 4: Candidate debate and poster fair.

Day 5: Paving the way to work beyond the sessions with Motivation CPR and How to create an international project.

Participants

52 Countries

Facilitators Arij Chatbri SCOME Director

Alexander Lachapelle LME

Katerina Dima SCOME General Assistant

Dino Mehic SCOME Development Assistant

Pablo Estrella

Outcomes Outcomes can be divided in 3 areas: 1- Empowered and motivated participants who shared experienced and knowledge and who are ready to work beyond the sessions.

2- A start to engage students socially more and some draft of actions to be taken.

3- A collaboration to start a SCOME international project: InSimu Olympiad.

SCOME RA for the Americas

Tendwa Ongas SCOME RA for Africa

Lina Hassanin IFMSA Egypt

Matteo Cavagnacchi SISM Italy

Obada Nahawi IFMSA Jo Jordan

Catarina Pais Rodriguez ANEM Portugal

Ximena Paredes IFMSA Paraguay

Aqsa Shafeeq IFMSA Pakistan

Externals Pr. David Gordon WFME President

Pr. Amanda Howe WONCA President

Sessions Team for SCOME Sessions in August Meeting 2017

Participants of SCOME Sessions at August Meeting 2017

126 Participants

75 Countries

Standing Committee on Professional Exchange (SCOPE) Topics covered At the beginning of day one, we presented the final achievements for the term 2016-2017.

Following we had Regulation Change Discussions as well as an update on the Investigations on the NMOs such as IFMSA-Palestine and APEHM-Peru. A lot was discussed and the SCOPE Sessions Team was always open to listen feedback and inputs from participants.

Following on Day two we prepared NEOs for the Contract signing that would take place in the Contract Fair on day 3.

Then in Day 4, we had a joint training opportunity with the Standing Committee on Research Exchange (SCORE) in which participants could have their skills improved and trained. Later that day, we had the SCOPE Director Candidates debate and it was brilliant to get the full picture of the vision of the future leadership for our Standing Committee.

For the 5th and last day, we encouraged our exchange officers to promote Educational Activities opportunities within their national level with the Pre-Departure Training on Ethics endorsed by the UNESCO Chair. After this session, we did a wrap up of all the SCOPE Sessions and gave the opportunity for the Outgoing SCOPE Director, Rodrigo Enrique Roa from Brazil, to give his final speech and to introduce our members to our next Director, Tommaso Pomerani from Italy. This summarizes the SCOPE Sessions at AM17.

It was a pleasure to be this enjoyable time with you in Tanzania. See you next time!

Facilitators Rodrigo Enrique Roa SCOPE Director

Wilme Steyn SCOPE RA Africa

Andrea Falconi SCOPE RA Americas

Sarthak Bahl SCOPE RA Asia Pacific

Bilal T. Mustafa SCOPE RA EMR

Ă–mer Yasir Boz SCOPE RA Europe

Tommaso Pomerani SCOPE General Assistant

Iris Blom IFMSA-NL

Ieva Balode LaMSA Latvia

Paula Reges IFMSA Brazil

Sulaiman Al-Hasni Medsco-Oman

Stefana Ciortea FAMSR-Romania

Tanya Zebrova HCCM-Russia

Abdelrahman El-Bakary IFMSA-Egypt

Claire Attard MMSA-Malta

Participants of SCORE-SCOPE sessions at August Meeting 2017

95 Participants

50 Countries

Standing Committee on Public Health (SCOPH) Topics covered SCOPH Mission & Vision - Beginners v.s. Experts: During this session we challenged both beginners and experts with exercises which will build and solidify the knowledge and understanding we all have of our Standing Committee, and the current work being performed on the international level.

Facilitators Dominique Vervoort BeMSA Belgium

Sarah Maitho MSAKE-Kenya

Kim Van Daalen SCOPH Talks motivational speeches about different SCOPH-related topics.

IFMSA-NL Several speakers in this session gave a speech inspiring you with their passion!

Update on external work (LWHO + LOSO) Heiman Kwok Mental Health During this session we mainly discussed the definition of mental AMSA-HongKong health, ‘’ What is mental health ‘’?, and we described situations that affected our mental health either temporarily or for a longer period.

Ahmad Abbadi Obesity we dedicated this session to truths and facts, getting acquainted with what SCOPH RA for EMR is happening in the world and near future on the topic of obesity, Social Determinants of Health: This session offered an introduction to social Nishwa Azeem determinants of health Policy 101: session about the basics of policy papers and SCOPH RA for AP how they can be used Communicable Disease During this session we explored the ‘have-to-know’ basis Omnia El Omrani about communicable disease and in which direction the world is developing in IFMSA-Egypt terms of CDs. Alcohol In this session we discussed how to talk to a patient and get valuable information on alcohol use from them in the correct way Michelle Houde IFMSA-Quebec Tobacco: During the Tobacco session we elucidated the world of Tobacco in an interactive way with games, quizzes and exercises Candidate Debate: debate between all the SCOPH-relevant candidates Environment & Health This session explored the links between environmental factors and human health.

NPO plenary: SCOPH Decision-making (highlights: regulations, strategy, SCOPH Exchanges) Cancer During this session we tackled several myths about cancer and discussed the changing demographics related to cancers, as well as the latest intervention in screening and diagnosis.

Universal Health Coverage This session highlighted the importance of health access and equity for everyone, as well as an introduction to Global Surgery.

Outcomes The main decision-making outcomes of the NPO plenary were: During this time, National Public Health Officers met and discussed the way forward on different aspects of the current SCOPH work, such as: • SCOPH Regulations update (they are now updated and available on the database!); • Progress on the SCOPH toolkits (finished until now: World Diabetes Day. To try finishing before the end of the term: Mental Health, Zika, Vector-Borne Diseases); • Development of SCOPH e-learning (slow but sure - somehow included in the Strategy); • SCOPH Exchanges update (exchanges are active - documents are available on the database starting from 1.9.); • SCOPH page on ifmsa.org website (VPPRC team has been slow); • SCOPH Strategy 2018-2021 (to be further worked on) In general the sessions were meant to increase knowledge and provide a space for sharing best practices. Compared to the MM, the sessions were less 'administrative'-outcome oriented, and more 'knowledge-increase' oriented.

Participants of SCOPH Sessions at August Meeting 2017

Participants of SCORA Sessions at August Meeting 2017

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70 Participants

Standing Committee on Sexual and Reproductive Health incl. HIV/AIDS

Countries

Facilitators Carlos Acosta SCORA Director

Ahmed Saleh IFMSA Egypt

Topics covered During the SCORA sessions we discussed all of 5 focus areas and also inaugurated the first SCORA exchange reforms which have now been implemented. We had sessions in 3 categories. The first one being angel time: communication still and daily advocacy skill needed for angels worldwide to know about SCORA topics. As well in the focus areas we have discussed basic topics and focused on CSE and gender based violence while also tackling region specific issues for Africa such as FGM. We have also included SCORA hot topics and talked about IVF and CSE for children with special needs to evaluate if it’s something to focus on more as now many SRHR NGOs are doing

Jian Feng IFMSA Quebec

Anshruta Raodeo SCORA RA for AP

Anne Juhl IMCC Denmark

Sohayla Bendoud IFMSA NL

Frederike Booke bvmd Germany

Iheb Jemel AssociaMed Tunisia

Rusa Divine MEDSAR Rwanda

70 Participants

47 Countries

Standing Committee on Research Exchange (SCORE) Topics covered In the first day, after getting to know each other, in the first session we had updates on International Team, AWP, Strategic Plan Updates, Database, NORE Report and ongoing SWG. In parallel we had an introduction to SCORE and Academic Quality.

Following the SB hosted a session about their work and common problems. We finalized the day with the exposition of the SWG and Training topics.

For SWG we had Student-led Projects, Exchange week, Sustainability of Exchange Fair, National Annual Working Plan in SCORE, and Sharing is Caring.

For Training on day 4 we had Stress and time management with tech in exchanges, Advocacy and recognition in exchanges, Perfect NO and Motivating LOs and Intercultural learning and conflict management in exchanges. On day 5 the topics were Social media and marketing your exchange, Financial management of exchanges and fundraising, Strategic planning in exchanges, How to organise and moderate an NGA session, Exchange program evaluation and impact assessment and Global health in exchanges.

On day 2 we had SCORE Regulation changes sessions, followed by the presentation of the candidates for Supervising Board, finishing with Tips and Tricks for Poster Fair and Contracts Fair. In parallel we had a session on Implementation of Educational Activities and Evaluation.

Contracts Fair was hosted on day 3.

Besides the training sessions, on day 4 we had the Debate for SCORE-D and LME candidates.

Finally on day 5 we had a session on UNESCO PDT in the morning. During the afternoon we had the presentation the outcomes of SWG and SCORE Sessions.

Facilitators Mauro Camacho SCORE Director

Kate Wang SCORE GA

Basma Lahmer SCORE RA EMR

Kasia Leszczynska SCORE RA Europe

Tara D'Ignazio SCORE DA on AQ

Chris Gramsch SCORE SB

James Janani SCORE SB

Alia Amira SCORE SP

Allydson Dohl SCORE ST

Outcomes

Bharat Sharma

All participants were able to recognise the members of the team and were able to SCORE ST approach them if needed.

NOREs to learned about the progress being made on the goals of the Strategic Simon Muller Plan SCORE ST The NOREs were updated on the situation with the Database and which improvements have been made and which ones are to come.

Externals NOREs were also updated on the progress made in each of the ongoing SWGs Russell D'Souza and for them to learn about any outcomes and how they can apply the outcomes to UNESCO Chair for Bioethics their exchanges.

The participants at the end of the sessions had basic knowledge about the workings of the SCORE Understanding of the basic concepts of AQ and available resources List of trainings/externals for future trainings Feedback for future AQ strategic plan.

Better understanding about the SB and hopefully be able to raise the quality of the project forms.

We got 3 new SB members Understanding of the concept of EAs and different possibilities, the relevance of EAs, how to organize EAs and where to find available resources and how to assess impact of EAs .

Have a better and more organised poster fair. Prepare NOREs to have time to enjoy Contracts fair.

The SCORE Regulations were updated and now they have a whole new format.

Participants of SCORE Sessions at August Meeting 2017

Participants of SCORP Sessions at August Meeting 2017

75 Participants

45 Countries

Standing Committee for Human Rights and Peace (SCORP)

Topics covered During the SCORP session, we discussed a mixture of human rights and organizational topics. As usual, the week began with parallel sessions on human rights – one for newer members, and another for the more experienced ones. Other sessions looked at amongst others the link between poverty, health and human rights, how access to healthcare can often be restricted and rights violated in prisons and detentions as well as how famine and food crises impacts health and can create long-lasting consequences for peace and development. We critically analysed the potential consequences, and harm, that can follow humanitarian action and interventions if they are not well thought through, and discussed how activities can be made more sustainable and ethical. We also looked at how oppression, especially racism, can manifest itself today, through both more direct forms and more subtly such as through cultural appropriation. We also tackled the topic of freedom of speech, including how this may affect the work of SCORP in countries where this is restricted. We also briefly discussed advocacy and the external work of SCORP, organized a SCORP Candidate debate and gave an update on the work of the International Team and introduced the IFMSA Program Structure focusing especially on practicalities of enrolment and the work of a program coordinator, discussed and voted upon SCORP specific regulations (Standing Committee Regulations, GoSCORP Regulations, SCORP Camp Regulations). In addition to this, there were plenty of opportunities for members to exchange their thoughts and ideas, for example through the SCORP Fair where all members were encouraged to showcase their activities, Human Rights CafÊ and SCORP Activity Presentation.

Facilitators Jessica Zhang SCORP Director

Marian Sedlak LPR

Sera Chamseddine SCORP RA EMR

Ugonna Nwankpa SCORP Development Assistant

Jose Chen SCORP General Assistant

Mennah Elrefaey IFMSA Egypt

Mahtab Nasrollah IFMSA NL

Rebecka Assarsson IFMSA Sweden

Anusheh Javaid SfGH UK

Outcomes

Daniela Kresse During this August Meeting, we adopted the SCORP Standing Committee Regulations, AMSA Austria SCORP Camp Regulations and GoSCORP Regulations as well as amendments for the SCORP Strategic Plan 2016-2019 and the TNHRT Regulations. Furthermore, we Maha Rehman received input on how these documents could potentially be amended in the future. The IFMSA Pakistan task of implementing, enforcing and updating the regulations will be the responsibility of upcoming directors.

Jan Haus According to the evaluation form, around 90% of the participants were satisfied with the AMSB Bulgaria new knowledge and perspectives that they gained, as well as useful inspirations, ideas and tools to bring home. All the materials have been uploaded on Google Drive by the Hana Awil trainers, to be shared with the participants as well as other members.

Children Health and Rights Program Participants were also overall very pleased with the member involvement and Coordinator interactivity during the sessions. They had fun, made new friends, and were able to participate to a higher extent in the decision making of the Standing Committee.

The general follow up of relevant ideas presented by members during the GA will be done by the new SCORP International Team, but especially the Regional Assistant for each region.

Evaluation of SCORP Sessions at August Meeting 2017

202 President's Session

Topics covered NMO Report, SupCo report, Task Force Reports, Officials Reports Policy Statements Plenary Procedures Bylaw Change Proposals ( International Teams, membership requirements, territories, GA Host and visa requirements, validation of candidatures, alumni, NMO debts) Memoranda of Understanding Sponsorship Proposals Program on Maternal Health and Access to Safe Abortion Program Reports Membership Review IFMSA strategy IFMSA Corporate Identity Global External Focus Areas (GEFA) Mental Health Watch Opening of Task Force on online voting and live streaming Code of Conduct Finances (Financial Committee(FC) report, MM16 + AM16 FR report, IFMSA FR 14/15, 15/16 and 16/17 and budget 17/18) EB Elect update MM18 Update

Participants

112 Countries

Facilitators Monica Lauridsen Kujabi Vice-President for Members

Omar Cherkaoui President

Dominic Schmid Vice-President for Activities

Joakim Bergman Vice-President for Finances

Marie Hauerslev Vice-President for External Affairs

Andrej Vujkovac Vice-President for Capacity Building

Firas Yassine Vice-President for PR and Communication

Claudel P-Desrosiers Plenary Chair

Marie My Warborg IMCC-Denmark

Outcomes The outcomes were to ensure all participants felt confident with and understood everything that was voted on in the plenary.

Furthermore, to create a safe space for NMO presidents to ask questions and share experiences.

As a follow up, all results from the Plenary have been shared with NMOs.

50 Participants

33 Countries

NMO Management Session Topics covered In the NMO management sessions we have divided the participants into 4 different steams according to their specific needs. The streams were Finances, External Representation, Strategic Planning and Communication in NMOs. In addition to the streams, we also had an introduction session and a closing session at the end of the AM. In the Finances session, the focus was on two perspectives of NMOs finances. First one is the Financial management of NMOs, which included budgeting, bookkeeping and reporting. Why those are important and how to do them well. The second one was mainly about how to get money through grants and various other applications.

The stream on External Representation aimed to explain the importance of engaging partners for the NMOs and what are the guiding principles of doing that. Additionally, we have explored a few tools that can be used (such as Stakeholder Mapping, Elevator Pitch etc.). Lastly, the participants got to know how External Representation and Policy work in IFMSA and how they can engage in its activities.

Strategic planning focused on the development of NMOs. The participants were guided through a process of how to create a strategic plan for the organization from creating a Vision to Situational Analysis, Setting Goals and Objectives, Creating an Action Plan and finally how to implement and communicate a strategy once it is created. There was an addition of the meaning of Capacity Building in Strategic Planning and how to manage the knowledge in the organizations in order to make a change for the better.

Last stream was on communication in NMOs. Here the participants got new ideas for online tools they can use to communicate more effectively as well as how to communicate better in person and make the best out the rare occasions of face to face meetings. We were also joined by the Alumni for a final session on the DISC communication model.

The closing session was again for everyone at the same time. There the participants explored what kind of options they have for bringing change into their NMOs from what they have learned throughout the week.

Facilitators

Andrej Martin Vujkovac IFMSA VPCB

Sophia Tolle bvmd-Germany

Lena Zotova IFMSA-Quebec

Joakim Bergman IFMSA VPF

Firas Yassine IFMSA VPPRC

Amine Lotfi IFMSA LWHO

Carles Pericas EscalĂŠ IFMSA LRA

Alexander Lachapelle IFMSA LME

Externals Miguel Cabral IFMSA Alumnus

Outcomes The sessions were successfully carried out, with all of the streams running to meet their objectives. The participants reported a gain of knowledge (data obtained from the feedback session on the last day) and usefulness for the NMOs in all four streams.

The outcomes will be followed up as part of a handover to the new VPCB, with the aim of keeping this system of NMO management sessions: where participants have to make choices of what they want to attend and then focusing more on those topics as opposed to only superficial 2-hour sessions on important NMO management topics.

Regional Sessions

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117 Africa

Participants

Countries

Facilitators Magnifique Irakoze

Topics covered After many years of African NMOs haven`t been involved in GAs because of last minute cancellations mostly due to visas issues, fortunately this AM2017 was totally different story. as more than 18 African NMOs have been able to be present and actively participating through out the GA. this had very clear implication on how the dynamic the Regional session could be. below an overview of what we have discussed : Basics about IFMSA. Discussion about IFMSA Strategy 2017/2020.

Consultations on Regional Strategy.

WHO AFRA and opportunities it presents.

RD Africa

Gerard Mbabazi General Assistant for Africa

Marie Claire Wangari Development Assistant for Africa

Stephane Bengabou Development Assistant for Africa

Outcomes - increased the knowledge of IFMSA Strategy, and the discussion on the regional one were very fruitful - the African members circle have been widen, since we had a large number of participants unlike other previous GAs - more emphasis on the WHO AFRO opportunities.

91 Americas

Participants

Topics covered Updates of the Regional Meeting, Regional Team's Report and Regional Director's Report, We also worked in SWGs in order to establish and elaborate more on the priorities for the regional strategy 2017-2020, they were facilitated by the Regional Team's members. We had SCs sessions and also presidents sessions where we discuss regional priorities for the strategy and also discussed and voted upon the external representation priority for the Americas. We finished the sessions with the RD Debate

Outcomes Presentation of the yearly reports from the Regional Team's members.

Set Priorities for the Americas Strategic Plan and also define areas of work in each priority.

17 Countries

Facilitators Ivan Fabrizzio Canaval DĂ­az RD for the Americas

Iara Porro IFMSA-Paraguay

113 Asia-Pacific

Participants

12 Countries

Topics covered Report of Regional Team's Work: a report of the regional team's work until the beginning of August was provided to the attending members for them to understand and to ask questions on.

Standing Committee Session: a breakout session was organized to allow each of the regional assistants to gain a better understanding of the members' aspiration in a regional context.

PreWHA, WHO, and IFMSA: a repeat of the session we held in March Meeting, which would allow the Asia-Pacific members to understand better the work we do with the WHO and how they can be involved in it, be it internships, delegations, or any other form of activity related to this organization.

External Representation in IFMSA: a module created by the External DA of AP, containing information on the ExRep activities we do, including, but not limited to policy documents, statements, participating in delegations, and social media engagement in the global processes that IFMSA is involved in.

RD Candidate Debate: a space for the candidates to answer several pre-prepared questions and answer random questions from the audience to allow the region to get to know better who they will be voting as their Regional Director.

APRM 2017 Update: with the APRM approaching swiftly, we discussed the preparation and the things that the OC will be offering to the participants who will be going to APRM, we went through the venue preparation, the pick up information, the postAPRM information, and many more.

Facilitators Satria Nur Syaban Regional Director for Asia-Pacific

Cheng-Yueh Hsu External Development Assistant for AsiaPacific

Cheng-Jui Hung Internal Development Assistant for AsiaPacific

Anshruta Raodeo SCORA Regional Assistant for Asia-Pacific

Nishwa Azeem SCOPH Regional Assistant for Asia-Pacific

Sarthak Bahl SCOPE Regional Assistant for Asia-Pacific

Agung Prabowo SCORP Regional Assistant for Asia-Pacific

Outcomes There were three sessions that the Regional Director coordinated: RD Debate: the outcome was to ensure that members are informed as best as possible before they vote in the plenary for their new Regional Directors, Outcome will not have a clear follow up, other than an objective assessment of the Regional Director's performance through her monthly reports and GA reports.

PreWHA, WHO, and IFMSA: outcome was to impart to the attending members how IFMSA works with the WHO and how they can be involved in the work that we do with them, follow up will be to measure the amount and quality of applicants from AP to our WHO related opportunities in the coming year.

President's Parallel Session: outcome was to give a space for NMO Presidents to raise their concerns on the way the region is managed and coordinated thus far, follow up was not planned explicitly, other than in the form of a handover to the incoming regional director.

Asia-Pacific Regional Team’s Work is mostly rated good (4) or very good (5) by the attendees

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Topics covered EMR Team updates Candidature/ Upgrade Membership Application SC Session / Presidents Session (continuation of sessions) RD Candidate Debate EMR14 host updates EMR Code Amendment EMR Camp Promo EMR Strategy 2017-2020

Outcomes Main outcomes where on EMR Code Amendment as the Regional IOGs were updates and the strategy was structured with 4 main pillars.

Participants Facilitators Bilal Tawfiq SCOPE RA For EMR

Ahmad Abbadi SCOPH RA for EMR

Basma Lahmer SCORE RA for EMR

Sera Chamseddine SCORP RA for EMR

Salma Ben Letaifa General Assistant for EMR

Sharif Ba Alawi RD EMR

Participants of EMR Regional Session at August Meeting 2017

12 Countries

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314 Europe

Participants

Topics covered 1. European Strategy and its implementation 2. The No Hate Speech Movement 3. The Council of Europe 4. The European Regional Meeting 5. How to organize Sub-Regional Trainings 6. How to measure impact 7. The European Recruitment Guidelines 8. European Internal Operating Guidelines and Regulations

Countries Facilitators

Priit Tohver RD Europe

Kasia Leszczyńska SCORE RA for Europe

Ă–mer Yasir Boz SCOPE RA for Europe

Alice Claeson

Outcomes 1. The region was informed of the progress achieved with the Strategy. A report will be sent to all NMOs and the strategy will continue to be evaluated every year.

2. SCORP members have a better understanding of the No Hate Speech Movement. 3.

Members of the European Region have a better understanding of the Council of Europe, and their engagement will be followed-up on in collaboration between the RD Europe and Miguel Cabral, the new Vice-Chair of one of the CoE-s bodies.

5. The CB RA for Europe will continue to support NMOs in organizing SRTs. 6. Participants learnt a few key tools in impact assessment and received educational materials.

7. Participants knew how to give input to the Guidelines. Guidelines have now been finalized and circulated.

8. The IOGs and Regulations were updated.

General Assistant for Europe

Hana Lucev General Assistant for Europe

Kim van Daalen IFMSA-NL

Tanya Zebrova HCCM-Russia

Sohayla Bendaoud IFMSA-NL

Frederike Booke bvmd Germany

Anusheh Javaid SfGH UK

Daniela Kresse AMSA-Austria

Rebecka Assarsson IFMSA-Sweden

Karel Johannes Liinaharja FiMSIC Finland

Katerina Dima SCOME GA

Dino Mehic SCOME DA

Externals Miguel Cabral former RD Europe

Mariana Costa former TSDD

Theme Event Sustainable Development Goal 3 Theme event was divided into two working days. First day was held in the form of a panel talk with external speakers, which was followed by an interactive debate facilitated through Pigeonhole.com platform. This proved to be a very effective way of members' involvement. External speakers gave us a good feedback as well.

Second day started in 5 parallel regional sessions. Each region had its unique agenda tailored to regional needs. External speakers were rotating between sessions and delivering planned interventions. After 90 minutes of these sessions participants came together for a common debrief with representatives of regions and external speakers. This system will have to be closely evaluated according to the feedback from participants. A significant problem were other parallel sessions, which diverted participants from these regional session and this ultimately led to low attendance during Day 2 (especially for Americas and EMR regions). All discussions resulted in the drafting of the outcome document - IFMSA Plan of Action: Developing Human Resources for Health within the SDG3 Framework, which was written in the context of increasing high level action on the topic, ahead of the 4th Global Forum on Human Resources for Health, in November 2017.

To summarize, theme event was a successful part of the agenda, several concepts proved to work very well (especially pigeonhole.com platform) and can be used for other IFMSA meetings in the future.

Rex Crossley Award Judging at Rex Crossley Award followed the same pattern as in March Meeting.

Standing Committee Directors judged alongside representatives from their ITs, two PCs and the VPA elect. They used an updated set of evaluation criteria. Average scores per activities, which also considered scoring of the written applications submitted before the GA. For the first time, next to the questions added by judges, one question per presentation was heard from the audience.

For the first time, IFMSA offered a reserved spot in its delegation to the World Health Assembly in Geneva, Switzerland in May 2018 to the winner of the Rex Crossley Award. An involved member from the winning Activity will be able to present the project on the international stage.

9 Activities presented

1st Place: Ultrafest Ljubljana by SloMSICSlovenia 2nd Place: Villages Free of Hepatitis C by IFMSAEgypt 3rd Place: Orphanage Health Day by LeMSICLebanon

In general the spectators of Rex Crossley Award showed an increased satisfaction level with the layout and the presentation quality. This might be because they were allowed to ask questions. Presenters actually showed an increased satisfaction for all parameters evaluated. Some of them asked for more specific feedback from judges.

Rex Crossley Award – Spectators evaluation

Activities Fair As for March Meeting, judges were recruited from International Teams and Program Representatives. PRs were given less Activities to judge, so they could focus on interacting with Activities.

Some new elements have been introduced compared to MM2017: The evaluation criteria were presented to all judges at the start of the fair.

Furthermore, inexperienced judges were paired with an experienced judge they could observe for one or two Activities, so they knew better how to go about judging. The Vice-President for Activities focused on the coordination of the judges. Scoring Sheets were collected and an average score per Activity was calculated.

Spectators were slightly less satisfied with the layout of the fair and its promotion compared to MM2017. Some of them noted that the time slot at the start of morning was not ideal, as fewer people attended. Activity Presenters shared that assessment.

Activity Presenter also noted the absence of poster walls, which resulted in a decreased satisfaction in resources provided. Although some of them reported issues with judges only coming to them very late during the fair, satisfaction levels remained constant for judging. There was no big difference in satisfaction regarding the application process and information shared. This pattern can be explained by the fact that the latter two parameters mostly depend on the work of the IFMSA leadership, which is more or less constant, while resources provided depend a lot on the OC and the setting of the General Assembly, which will naturally fluctuate.

75 Activities presented

1st Place: Donate Life by Associa-Med-Tunisia 2nd Place: Rare Diseases Event by AMSA-Hong Kong 3rd Place: "Health Care in Danger" Workshop by IFMSA-Quebec

Contracts Fair We had the pleasure to count more than 75 NMOs at the Contracts Fair and prepared their stand. From 09:30 to 10:00, all the NMOs had a bit of time to prepare their table. Only Four participants in total per NMO (two for SCOPE and two for SCORE) were allowed to enter the Contracts Fair at that time. We struggled with the logistics since we lacked Microphones and Speakers, but we tried our best to give energy to participants. National Professional and Research Exchange Officers signed contract that will allow over 10,000 students to experience a different healthcare than its own while abroad. A more detailed information will be given during the MM18 since we will have a overview of the SCOPE and SCORE Statistics for the Exchange Season 2018-2019.

Then, from 12:00 to 13:00, we opened the doors to all AM17 participants to enter and enjoy the fair.

Joint Sessions

20 Human Trafficking Participants Shedding light on Human Trafficking.

Office on Drugs and Crime, every and children fall into the hands of and abroad. Almost every country trafficking, whether as a country of victims. Trafficking in persons is a serious rights.

According to the United Nations year, thousands of men, women traffickers, in their own countries in the world is affected by origin, transit or destination for crime and a grave violation of human

Facilitators Iheb Jemel SCORA Sessions Team

Mennah El Refaey IFMSA Egypt

Debrief: In the session, participants knew what Human Trafficking is, the types and forms of Human Trafficking, looking into the causes for this phenomenon. There was also an exercise that elaborated the forms of Human Trafficking.

Finally participants learned about Sex Trafficking and how to spot the victim.

Suleiman Al-hasni MedSCO Oman

Minutes: Suleiman started the session by introducing the participants to the definition of human trafficking and the prevalence of this humanitarian challenge. Mennah later on discussed the link between human rights and human trafficking. Participants were later divided into different teams. They were asked to do a role play through which they put focus on one human right violation in different human rights situation.

Finally, Iheb presented Sex trafficking, discussing its major hubs in different regions and the challenges faced to combat it. He Also discussed ways to spot victims and proceed as stated the manual on human rights and human trafficking developed by the UN High Commission on Human Rights.

Evaluation of Human Trafficking Joint Session at August Meeting 2017

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Medical Ethics and Human Rights in Medical Curriculum Participants Through this Joint session between SCOME and SCORP, participants went through some medical ethics cases, discussed the methods of teaching ethics within their respective curricula through a quick speed-dating activity, and were presented with steps and tools to improve or introduce a more comprehensive way of incorporating ethics into their education.

We were also lucky to have Dr. Russell D’Souza, the UNESCO chair of bioethics, who shared his perspective and work experience, and introduced several opportunities for students to be involved in UNESCO’s work in the realm of bioethics.

Facilitators Pablo Estrella SCOME RA for the Americas

Sera Chamseddine SCORP RA for EMR

Dr. Russell D'Souza UNESCO

Facilitators of Medical Ethics and Human Rights in Medical Curriculum Joint Session at August Meeting 2017

50 Access to Healthcare This session highlighted the challenges in access to healthcare, beginning with a brief introduction and 'Privilege walk' followed by discussion on the current situation in different countries when it comes to access to healthcare for specific groups.

Through a presentation, the concept of 'right to health' and its background, importance and relevance was addressed, followed by a simulation with roles of different actors (World Health Organization, Non-Governmental Organizations, Hospital Administration, Student Organization) in order to better understand how different actors have a role in ensuring access to health care and to have a closer look at the the challenges, potential solutions and collaborations in society.

Finally, the session ended with a presentation on 'Roles of different actors and collaborations' in reality.

Participants

Facilitators Carles Pericas LRA

Rujvee Patel MSAI India

Capacity Building Sessions Goals and Methods Training sessions offered a variety of topics chosen according to two main criteria. The first one was the NMOs needs according to the NMO report (these included both hard and soft skills training). The second was a set of well-established training sessions that aim to increase soft skills of individuals. The topics of the training sessions were: • Financial management and Fundraising • Local advocacy: Obtaining support from Government/Universities • Promotion and recruitment: for increasing meaningful membership in NMOs • Public Speaking • Communication and Feedback in smaller teams • Creative thinking for innovative ideas • Activity Management for planning and conducting projects and other activities • Time Management, focusing on personal effectiveness • Writing as a Health Tool, using reporting and media for the good of health • Finding your values (external speaker) to be a better physician The sessions also posed a possibility for our new trainers from the preAM TNT to complete their graduation.

Evaluation The participants valued the approach of the trainers, making the sessions interactive and inclusive (as opposed to lectures).

Additionally, most were satisfied with the selection of the training session and the choice they had (192 out of 249 were satisfied with the variety, while only 18 said it was insufficient).

• The average grade of the training sessions was 7.40, and the registration process 7.36.

Follow-up Taking into account the feedback, the future training sessions will try to have more variety in terms of themes and in terms of difficulty. It might be worth noting next time that the sessions are mainly aimed at new members.

Also we will try to find more time and space for the trainers to prepare for the sessions, as that was one of the top complaints from the trainers themselves.

Average rating for Training Sessions at August Meeting 2017

Program Sessions

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Maternal Health & Access to Safe Abortion Participants

The session was initiated with a brief introduction to IFMSA’s program structure stating the roles of the program coordinators, the benefits from enrolling activities, Facilitators how to engage in the programs, etc.

Emmeli Mikkelsen The section on maternal health was primary focused on access to safe abortion, MHASA Program Coordinator which has until now been the main topic within the program. We discussed women's rights to sexual and reproductive health, the burden of unsafe abortion, as well as causes and complications to unsafe abortion procedures. In the end, we had a short session on activity management. The participants were briefly divided into three small working groups in order to plan their own activity.

At the end of the session, participants felt they had more capacity within the IFMSA program structure, maternal health including access to safe abortion and how to plan activities, than before the session.

In total, 61 people evaluated the Maternal Health and Access to Safe Abortion program session in the general evaluation for AM17. As only a quarter of these people actually attended the session, the results are quite biased. However, from the written evaluations received right after the session, it appears that some people would have preferred having an entire session on maternal health only, while other people appreciated the agenda items about the IFMSA program structure and activity management – which in my opinion is the whole purpose with having the program sessions.

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Mental Health Participants The program session held on Mental Health had multiple things subsequently covered, starting from the basics of Activity Management i.e. Visions, Goals and Aims, then diving into the knowledge about IFMSA programs and specifically that of Mental Health, explaining the stakeholders and types of activity that can be carried out ending with hoe and who to enroll the projects done on mental health.

At last a huge chunk was given for the participants to use the tools given at he start of this session along with the knowledge of the program and generally on mental health activities to step by step design a detailed activity on Mental Health.

Facilitators Nishwa Azeem RA SCOPH AP

Eleanora De Frau SCOPH D

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Teaching Medical Skills Participants 1. Welcome to the session ● Let’s make it interactive and with fun ● Sharing Experiences

Facilitators

Dino Mehic 2. Short overview about the programs and what it is about? ● General description ● Program report

SCOME DA

Obada Nahawi IFMSA Jo

3. a. Tell your story about TMS activities! b. What is lacking in your curriculum? Think of an activity?

This is just a brainstorming to make it more interactive. Ask the question. Let them share their experiences, struggles etc. No need to prepare a ppt or somethin special. But you can think about an interactive exercise.

Tendwa Ongsas Kenya

3. Activity Management → https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WHuFfslpQTQ0wTdjNA8vE6i_68J0CoiYpGDgqFgaBV4/edit Theory and exercise about planning at TMS activity.

4. Advocacy → powepoint https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0BxvAkleEsX9nTlFLZy03ei01dTA 5. CanMed Modell Interactive activity and discussion about the different fields in the CanMed Modell.

7. Wrap Up (all together).

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Sexuality & Gender Identity Participants The session started off with introductions. All participants introduced themselves to the group and briefly discussed why they were interested in the topic of sexuality and gender identity. This was followed by a presentation on pregnancy in transgender persons, with the main focus on psychosocial aspects of pregnancy.

After this, an interactive workshop on activity management was conducted and participants worked through various stages of activity planning and design in a step by step fashion

Facilitators Laalithya Konduru Sexuality and Gender Identity Program Coordinator

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Environment & Health Participants

This session highlighted the different ways in which our environment affects our Facilitators health, with a focus especially on climate change (1 hour, detailed introduction), Line Damsgaard endocrine disrupting chemicals in plastic products (10 min., brief introduction) and Environment and Health Program water sanitation (10 min., brief introduction).

Coordinator Furthermore, we discussed the work happening in IFMSA around especially Climate Change and Health - from local and national projects, initiatives at the regional level, for example the Ouagadougou declaration at the African Regional Meeting, to international initiatives like participation in UN meetings on climate change and collaboration with the WHO. The session also described how the IFMSA program structure works, how to develop and enrol activities, and what both IFMSA and the activities gains from the programs.

It was difficult to maintain the participants focus and energy as it was a very long session for only one facilitator and few participants. I would recommend in the future to have the session not be in parallel to SC sessions, so that more people are able to participate, and perhaps keep the session a bit shorter and then have the "common topics" like activity management and advocacy not be part of each program session.

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Children Health & Rights Participants The program session was divided into 4 parts: - A fair, where participants could get an insight to what the Children Health & Rights Program entails, work that has been done and activities that have been enrolled.

- National Activities: each participants was given the opportunity to present what activities they conduct in their NMO, success stories & issues they might face.

- Medical Ethics: We had a short session on medical ethics, with a case relating to children's rights & health.

- Child Labour: Most of the session time was spent on addressing Child Labour.

Today, almost 11 % of all children (5 - 17 years) worldwide are involved in child labour. This interactive session highlighted the health implications and rights violations related child labour; increased capacity and raised awareness on the plight of child labourers; and identified methods to help protect children worldwide.

Facilitators Hana Awil Children Health Coordinator

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Sera Chamseddine SCORP RA EMR

Maha Rehman NORP

Rights

Program

Miscellaneous Sessions Policy Discussion It was briefly presented to all what policies had been submitted for the General Assembly, their policy commissions and facilitators of session as well as their validity status. Furthermore, the process leading up to the policy creation and through the GA was explained. Then the participants split into groups, one for each policy document. In the groups the background, main points and intended and potential usage of the policy at the global and national level was discussed. The intention to make amendments to the policies was also possible here.

Networking session The session aimed at allowing people to meet in a fun way and get to know a little about each other's professional and personal lives. There was music playing in the background and the networking was facilitated by our Liaison Officers. Succesful networking was measured by number of selfies taking with new acquiantances, after having discussed the topic of discussion with them. As such, participants met new people across standing committees and national boarders.

Plenary Sessions Plenaries at August Meeting took place in the Tanzania Convention Centre. The Plenary Team was led by Ms. Claudel PĂŠtrinDesrosier (IFMSA-Quebec) as Chairperson and Mr. Torsten Merinder (IMCC-Denmark) as Vice-Chairperson.

As for the March Meeting, NMOs were faced with a high number of proposals to consider. 31 Bylaws Change were presented.

Most notably, the procedures for accepting new members in IFMSA were widely revised, and now also include regulations on dependent territories. AM2017 also saw the passing of numerous policies, memoranda of understanding, the second full set of Program annual reports and two sponsorship proposals. The Team of Officials 2017/18 was elected. A major discussion point was the resignation of the Vice-President for Capacity Building 2017/18 right before the General Assembly. A call needed to be reopened before the GA, but upon a proposal form the Executive Board, NMOs decided to delay the special election until after the GA.

In the evaluation, plenary spectators were widely satisfied, with logistics being rated with higher satisfaction compared to MM2017. Satisfaction with efficiency decreased, which was to be expected for an August Meeting with significantly more candidature presentations. Satisfaction among NMO Presidents decreased across the parameters investigated compared to MM2017, except for plenary logistics. The plenary hall provided significantly more space compared to the arrangement in Montenegro.

The General Assembly in Numbers

Introduction An evaluation form was sent to all the participants of August Meeting 2017 on the 26th of August. Participants had until the 7th of September to fill out the form. Filling out the form was a prerequisite in order to receive the certificate of attendance. All participants had to fill out logistics and agenda form, and they were directed afterwards on different sections based on the sessions they participated in.

This chapter shows evaluation of logistics and agenda. Evaluation of sessions can be found in respective chapters.

Logistics evaluation

Prior information

Transportation

Registration

Visa facilitation

Accommodation Dissatisfied Neutral Non Applicable Satisfied Very Dissatisfied Very Satisfied

Venue

Boarding

Social Program

Sponsors

Opening Ceremony

Closing Ceremony Dissatisfied Neutral Non Applicable Satisfied Very Dissatisfied Very Satisfied

Comments: • Some participants were not satisfied with the amount and variety of the food, so this should be taken into the account for future GAs. • There was a problem with the Internet connection.

• Coordination of postGA could have been done earlier according to timeline.

• Some participants were dissatisfied with the noise levels during the social program.

• To share the transportation arrangements with the participants accordingly • More detailed information to be provided to the participants prior to the meeting

Agenda Evaluation

Layout of the agenda

Time management Dissatisfied Neutral Non Applicable Satisfied Very Dissatisfied Very Satisfied

Comment: • Participants were mostly “satisfied” with the agenda layout, as well as time management.

• To separate Programs sessions and SC sessions, so participants can attend both • Not to have overlaps in the agenda