March Meeting 2017 Follow-up Report

MM2017

Follow-up Report

66th General Assembly

March Meeting 2017 Budva, Montenegro

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A message from the President

Dear readers, Dear March Meeting 2017 Participants, It is truly my honour to be writing this introduction message of the MM17 Report.

We started our term on the 1st of October, and I have to say that the past six months of the term have treated us way better than anything expected. We have achieved so many successes and the 66th March Meeting General Assembly in Budva was definitely the highlight of the term.

This meeting was not only one of the biggest in terms of number of participants and NMOs present, but it also was the first of its kind to try a new agenda structure. IFMSA members who had the chance to participate in previous meetings certainly know the stress and workload that was accompanying our meetings, which is the reason why we have decided to change the agenda and allocate more time for participants to breath. I am happy to announce that this was a success.

Throughout this meeting, all the participants had the opportunity to meet with other medical students from different parts of the world, to inspire and get inspired, to share the knowledge and learn from experts, to work hard, to take decisions that will impact the communities they serve, and to simply have fun.

I would like to invite you all to go through this report and remember all the great things that took place in Montenegro, until we meet again in August in Tanzania.

All the best, Omar Cherkaoui IFMSA President 2016/17

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March Meeting 2017 at one glance

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Participants

NMOs represented Pre-General Assembly Meeting

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Participants trained

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Workshops

Adoption of the Budva Youth Declaration: A Call to Action on Noncommunicable Diseases.

New agenda, with 87% of participants satisfied or very satisfied with time management.

Consultation for IFMSA Strategy 2017/20 with all participants.

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IFMSA Team of Officials 2016/17

From left to right Iris Tomlow, International Secretary, The Netherlands Stintje Dijk, Supervising Council, The Netherlands Diogo Martins, Supervising Council, Portugal Priit Trohver, Regional Director for Europe, Estonia Sharif Aqeel Salim Alsharif Ba Alawi, Regional Director for the Eastern Mediterranean Region, Oman Ivan Fabrizzio Canaval Diaz, Regional Director Americas, Peru Carles Pericas Escale, Liaison Officer for Sexual and Reproductive Health issues incl. HIV/AIDS, Spain-Catalonia Hana Lucev, Vice-President for Activities elect, Croatia Satria Nur Sya’ban, Regional Director for AsiaPacific and Vice-President for Members elect, Indenesia Sukhdeep Arora, Vice-President for Capacity Building elect, Germany Magnifique Irakoze, Regional Director for Africa, Rwanda Batool Ahmad Ali Al-Wahdani, Liaison Officer to Student Organizations, Jordan Amela Hamidovic, Vice-President for Finances elect, Serbia Skander Essafi, Liaison Officer for Public Health issues, Tunisia Carlos Andres Acosta Casas, Standing Committee on Sexual and Reproductive Health incl. HIV/AIDS Director and President elect, Brazil Mauro Henrique Batista Camacho, Standing Committee on Research Exchange Director, Brazil Jessica Zhang, Standing Committee on Human Rights and Peace Director, Sweden

Eleonora Dafne Frau, Standing Committee on Public Health Director, Switzerland Omar Cherkaoui, President, Morocco Amine Lofti, Liaison Officer to the World Health Organization (WHO), Morocco Rodrigo Enrique Brito Roa Sarmento, Standing Committee on Professional Exchange Director, Brazil Marian Sedlak, Liaison Officer to Human Rights and Peace issues, Slovakia Arij Chatbri, Standing Committee on Medical Education Director, Tunisia Firas Yassine, Vice-President for Public Relations and Communications, Lebanon Marie Hauerslev, Vice-President for External Affairs, Denmark Andrej Martin Vujkovac, Vice-President for Capacity Building, Slovenia Monica Lauridsen Kujabi, Vice-President for Members, Denmark Joakim Bergman, Vice-President for Finances, Sweden Dominic Schmid, Vice-President for Activities, Switzerland Missing Alexander Shawn Lachapelle, Liaision Officer for Medical Education issues, Canada-Quebec Camille Pelletier Vernooy, Supervising Council Member, Canada-Quebec Diego Raul Mendoza Diaz, Supervising Council Member, Mexico Jonathan SchĂźtze, Supervising Council Member, Germany Salma Abdalla, Supervising Council Member, Sudan

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March Meeting 2017 Organizing Committee

From left to right: Marko Music, Vice-President Vanja Popovic, Public Relations Žana Pavicevic, General Secretary Nikoleta Odalovic, Theme Event Coordinator Jusuf Kadic, Technical Support Coordinator Milos Bojic, Logistic Coordinator Mirko Mikic, Supervisor Stefan Bojovic, Information Desk Coordinator Zineta Dacic, PreGA Director Anis Sabotic, Fundraising and Treasurer Slaven Jovanovic, Registration Coordinator

Gorica Krunic, Theme Event Coordinator Aleksandra Fatic, PostGA Coordinator Suad Sabanovic, President Andjela Becic, Social Program Coordinator Milica Djurovic, Transportation Coordinator Maja Kalac, Visa Coordinator Filip Maras, Accomodation Coordinator Bogdan Racic, Information Desk Doordinator Missing Emilija Delevic, Transportation Coordinator

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

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Standing Committees, Presidents’ Sessions, NMO Management Sessions

3. Regional Sessions

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4. Capacity Building Sessions

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5. Theme Event

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Organ Donation, Non-Communicable Diseases

6. Activities

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Rex Crossley Award, Activities Fair

7. Exchanges Fair

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8. Joint Sessions

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9. Program Sessions

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10. Miscellaneous Sessions

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Policy Discussions, Open Space Technology, IFMSA Strategy, Plenary

11. The General Assembly in Numbers

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Pre-General Assembly Workshops

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Essential Leadership Skills Participants

10 Countries

There has been a massive demand for a workshop teaching Facilitators skills and tools on leadership, especially personal leadership. Andrej Martin Vujkovac It could have to do with the feeling of inadequacy many IFMSA Vice-President for Capacity Building volunteers in IFMSA feel when it comes to taking a leadership Sukhdeep Arora position. Some might think that they are not good enough. VPCB Training Assistant Others, might overestimate their powers and burnout because Lisa Schulte of problems arising from bad leadership decisions. With the VP International amsa-Austria aim of improving essential leadership skills for members in leadership positions as well as members who plan or wish to take them in the future, we have identified the following goals with specific objectives: 1: Improving personal leadership 1.1: Participants learn how to create a personal vision.

1.2: Participants take more responsibility for their success (increase their proactive attitude) 1.3: Participants improve their knowledge of time management 2: Improving team leadership 2.1: Participants learn basics of team roles/dynamic and how to adapt

leadership style accordingly 2.2: Participants learn at least 6 different aspects of motivation and communication.

2.3: Participants learn at least 2 project management tools 3: Improving organisational leadership 3.1: Participants increase their knowledge of strategic planning and strategy implementation

Outcomes. The 11 participants have gained an insight into all three intended topics: personal, team and organisational leadership. They have created their own personal visions and learned how to take steps to reach them. They also got to grips with leading and structuring teams and develop strategies. Another important aspect was collecting the feedback and working forward on creating a standardised leadership workshop. We have received the feedback there and are taking it into account for the next edition (to be conducted in EuRegMe). One of the trainers is also following up on the participants work online.

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From Idea to Impact Participants

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Background and Goal. The goal of the workshop is to teach Facilitators essential project management skills to be used in all phases Pelle Harris Krog of a project - from startup, to management and final NMO President IMCC-Denmark evaluation.

Marie My Warborg Larsen EB Member, IMCC-Denmark

Outcomes. All participants became familiar with essential Maria Golebiowska tools to be used in the different project phases. We had a very IFMSA Program Support Assitant to VPA positive evaluation from the participants, who are now better equipped to run solid and sustainable projects/activities in their NMOs. A project management manual developed from the previous Idea to Impact workshop in AM16 (awaiting graphical finalization from VPPRC) has been shared with the participants.

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Global External Focus Areas and External Representation in IFMSA Participants

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Background and Objectives Facilitators 1. Ensure the understanding of each of The Global External Marie Hauerslev Focus Areas, how IFMSA external representation is directed IFMSA Vice-President for External Affairs by these areas and what are the roles of the responsible Skander Essafi, Amine Lofti, figures behind it.

Carles Pericas, Marian Sedlak, 2. Build capacity to implement, promote and fulfill the Global Batool Wahadani External Focus Areas in all events and conferences on the IFMSA Liaison Officers international level.

Line Daamsgard 3. Identify and define key concepts in global health, global Environment & Health Program Coordinator health diplomacy and global health governance.

Emmeli Mikkelsen 4. Discuss key cross-cutting issues of global health in relation Maternal Health & Access to Safe Abortion Program Coordinator to The Global External Focus Areas.

5. Provide knowledge that allows the participants to Majo Cisneros Caceres Healthy Lifestyles & Non-Communicable understand international governmental decision-making Diseases Program Coordiantor processes and the place of health in such processes.

6. Learn about different tools and techniques in External Representation and develop spokesperson skills to enable participants to speak up and actively engage in events.

7. Make the participants propose strategies to address their problems at local or national level through tools gained in the workshop 8. Enable the participants to play an active role in representing their NMOs and IFMSA in any external representation opportunities.

Outcomes. The participants were introduced to each GEFA and became familiar of how we direct our external representation efforts. They also gained important skills in external representation, participated in real life situations through role plays and knew how to be engaged in high level meetings and how to improve the external representation of their NMOs. Follow up. We gathered short immediate feedback from participants every day and at the end of the workshop. The coordinators analysed the evaluation along with IFMSA VPE and Liaison Officers. Based on the feedback received, we will explore the possibility to develop

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generic workshop on external representation of IFMSA to be added to IFMSA capacity building activities portfolio.

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HIV Education and Advocacy Training (H.E.A.T.) Participants

8 Countries

Background. At the end of 2013, globally, there were Facilitators approximately 35 million people living with HIV with 2.1 million Carlos Acosta being newly infected during that year. Over half of those who IFMSA Standing Committee on Sexual and Reproductive Health incl. HIV/AIDS Director carry the virus don’t know their status. Of 35 million infected people, only 12.9 million have access to antiretroviral therapy. Carles Pericas Liaison Officer on Sexual and In 2015, 1.5 million people died due to AIDs- related illnesses IFMSA Reproductive Health issues incl. HIV/AIDS worldwide. This comes to show how big of a threat HIV/AIDS Ferren still is. While it is true that having HIV is no longer a death Pepe SCORA Regional Assistant for Europe sentence for those who can access appropriate treatment, there is still much work to be done with regards to access to Anshruta Raodeo SCORA Regional Assistant for Asia-Pacific treatment, control of the virus, testing and prevention of its transmission.

In the IFMSA, we acknowledge the HIV epidemic as one of the major focal points of our work, not only through our internal initiatives but also through our commitment with networks such as GNP+ (Global Network of People Living with HIV/AIDS) and The PACT coalition. With this workshop, we aim at equipping our members with the skills and capacity needed to empower and show support to people living with HIV, either through global advocacy or community based efforts.

Objectives Objective 1: Capacitate students in the building and development of HIV education strategies to be able to apply in a local context taking into account demographic needs.

Objective 2: Address advocacy skills specific to the HIV movement and inform students about the future

HIV related decision making scenarios and how can we mobilize ourselves as medical students to impact on them.

Objective 3: Students must be able to identify both stigma and discrimination manifestations in healthcare settings by healthcare personnel and know how to address them

Evaluation and Follow up. The workshop received a great overview from participants. We received feedback the we need to find more time to make it interactive and therefore also much more dynamic. Participants found the workshop necessary taking into account the corrent global political scenario involving HIV and how this can change our work as SCORAngels. We will followup on participants by creating a network to reform the training and see if we should continue with it, change it or not do it again.

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International Training on Disaster Medicine (ITDM) Participants

15 Countries

Background. Over the last century, the number of disasters Facilitators has remarkably increased, indicating that future generations Anton Ahlback of physicians will be called upon to provide mass-casualty IFMSA-Sweden treatment to an even greater extent than before.

Isabel Jimenez Camps NORP IFMSA-Spain

Goals Anshruta Raodeo • Provide medical students with basic knowledge and NORA MSAI India introduction to the speciality of Disaster Medicine and Cherine Zaïm create understanding of the disaster management Emergency, Disaster Risk & Humanitarian Action Program Coordinator system; • Provide a platform for students from different Marco Becerril socioeconomic, cultural, national, religious backgrounds IFMSA-Mexico to discuss their perceptions of disaster medicine’s general Agnieszka Cholewinska and specific needs, especially in humanitarian issues, and International Committee of the Red Cross use the opportunity to analyse medical ethical dilemmas in disaster settings; • Create a momentum of medical students that are equipped to advocate for the need of training on disaster medicine and stressed actions on ethical dilemmas in disasters; • Inspire medical students to use the knowledge acquainted to continue learning more about the Disaster Medicine through platform of IFMSA Program on Emergency, Disaster Risk management and Humanitarian Actions and online platform of TdmT; • Empower medical students to do actions on disaster medicine and humanitarian actions in their communities through IFMSA Program on Emergency, Disaster Risk management and Humanitarian Actions Outcomes • Created a group of trainers able to educate their peers on disaster management • Provide a platform for discussion regarding disaster response amongst various countries and avenues to improve it.

• Evaluated impact of training on participants by pre and post-tests. Significant increase in the test scores for each participant.

• Empower participants to apply and enrol Training Disaster Medicine Trainers (TdmT) course.

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Presidents’ PreGA Participants

Background. This workshop was targeting NMO Presidents and executive boards. As these are the leadership of our NMOs they have specific needs which we aim to tackle with the presidents workshop. The sessions were split in two streams. 1) Skills and NMO President needs and 2) Organisational Development.

10 Countries

Facilitators Monica Kujabi IFMSA Vice-President for Members

Sharif Ba Alawi, Ivan Canaval, Magnifique Irakoze, Satria Nur Sya’ban, Priit Trohver IFMSA Regional Directors

Goals. To increase the knowledge about IFMSA and to Candela Benavides enhance the skills of the participants in specific areas related IFMSA-Argentina to being an NMO leader. To give participants concrete tools and plans to develop their own NMOs. Outcomes • Participants enhanced their skills in leadership, recruitment, strategy, motivation and in how to manage IFMSA in their NMO and as head of delegation.

• Participants developed an analysis of their own NMO including strengths and weaknesses based on different theories. They also worked on specific initiatives they can implement back home.

• Participants learnt about and from other NMOs and different/similar challenges these face as well as the general nature of organisations.

• A follow-up survey was send to participants asking what they have taken from the workshop to their NMOs. Another survey will be sent in a few months to further follow up.

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Public Health Leadership Training (PHLT) on Anti-Microbial Resistance (AMR) Participants

Background and Objectives. We as medical students represent current and future health leaders and as such we represent a fertile field to grow future competent leaders that will involve themselves in finding solutions to Public Health issues, both in their studies, but also later in life.

The Public Health Leadership Training (PHLT) is imagined as a longitudinal concept of training Medical students to take up leadership positions in their NMOs, countries, regions and on the international level.

This workshop aims to equip participants with knowledge in three large domains: • The leadership domain (communication, conflict management, leadership skills, team dynamics) • The Public Health domain (SDH, levels of prevention, basics of Antimicrobial Resistence,...)

• Activity management (goals, objectives, vision, mission, evaluation,...)

9 Countries

Facilitators Eleonora Dafne Frau IFMSA Standing Health Director

Committee

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Public

Hana Lucev General Assistant for AMR to Regional Director for Europe

Katja Cic SCOPH General Assistant

Nikola Donchev AMSB-Bulgaria

Felicitas Berger BeMSA-Belgium

Petar Velikov Communicable Coordinator

Diseases

Program

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By growing both as communicators and gaining increased insight into the functioning of a team, as well as achieving increased clarity in the domain of Public Health, our participants are meant to leave the workshop with inspiration, motivation, and drive. By gaining skills in Activity Management, they will be able to formulate concrete and effective plans to impact their communities and the issues that they are passionate about.

Outcomes and Follow up. All the participants attended the entire workshop successfully. All participants made plans to either improve or implement new Activities in their NMOs as a follow-up to the workshop. They will also be asked to fill a 6 month report 6 months after the workshop. A more complete report with specific evaluation data will be included in the SCOPH Public Database.

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Training New Exchanges Trainers (TNET) Participants

16 Countries

Background. The Training New Exchange Trainers consists Facilitators of a workshop of three working days, containing presentations Nina Gelineau and interactive sessions, covering general topics tailored to Former NEO/NORA IFMSA-The Netherlands the participants’ needs such as soft skills trainings as well as specific topics related to exchanges. The participants Tommaso Pomerani themselves are involved in shaping the sessions and taking SCOPE General Assistant into practice what they learned. The TNET aims at expanding Kate Wang students’ knowledge on exchange management together with SCORE General Assistant broadening knowledge on important aspects that concern Omer Yasir Boz exchanges, such as global health issues, ethics and academic SCOPE Regonal Assistant for Europe quality within exchanges. Furthermore, it strives to create trainers specifically focused on exchanges, to enhance their skills in facilitating, presenting, and transferring the message to Exchange Officers, but especially to provide Exchanges officers with the tools and knowledge on how to manage exchanges that will benefit the IFMSA exchange program.

Expected Outcomes 1. To enable participants to play an active role in improving the exchange programs of IFMSA 2. To enable participants to represent their organization towards faculties and national institutions, providing them with the skills for development of international exchange possibilities, including student leadership and external representation.

3. To enable participants to pass on their knowledge as Trainers in Exchanges, providing skills for

exchange management, self-development and group management.

4. To generate more experienced and aware trainers for the Professional and Research Exchange Trainings (PRETs), leading to higher quality of trainings and good quality outcomes, better aligned to the needs of the Standing Committees.

5. To enable better management of the exchange programs in all their aspects including improvement of Academic Quality.

Outcomes 1. For a next TNET consider doing a needs assessment beforehand to get an idea of how much experience the participants have, both as Exchange Officers but also with Capacity Building in general. This needs assessment can also be used to find out how the participants learn best and what sort of activities they enjoy. Furthermore it can be used to see if there are any specific areas the participants would like to focus on or want extra information about.

2. Another recommendation is to keep the Reflection Groups in the TNET. Not only is it good for the participants to be able to discus the day and their fears, but for the TNET trainers it is

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also a good way to see how the participants are doing, and how to best guide them for their graduation trainings.

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Training New Human Rights Trainers (TNHRT) Participants

13 Countries

Background. Human Rights are inalienable and apply to all Facilitators members of the human family, equally and without Jose Chen discrimination. They set the foundation that allow all people to SCORP General Assistant live with dignity, freedom, justice and peace. More than ever, Hiba Ghandour Human Rights have become a focal point in our world and as Training Support Division Director LeMSICfuture medical practitioners with the responsibility of serving Lebanon all people in the community, it is perhaps of even greater Rujvee Patel NORP-CB MSAI-India importance to us as medical students.

The aims of TNHRT are firstly and foremost to create Monisha Mohan ambassadors for human rights and humanitarian values within MSAI-India healthcare and the broader community by equipping medical students with the knowledge and tools to identify injustice and to advocate for human rights, as well as the relevant soft skills for training, inspiring and empowering others.

This training provides a unique platform for medical students from different National Member Organizations (NMOs) to exchange ideas and knowledge and to receive the proper tools and skills to create and implement Human Rights education programs in their local communities as well as nationally and internationally if they wish.

Outcomes. The participants gained knowledge, tools, skills and also motivation to become human rights trainers. Materials have been shared with the participants. In order to receive the certification as Human Rights Trainer, they must fill out the evaluation form within a given deadline, and also deliver their first “graduate training” within 6 months from the end of the workshop. Then, they will be added to the database of Human Rights Trainers, in addition to the Facebook group for Human Rights Trainers, so that they get the opportunity to deliver TNHRT on an international level.

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Training New Medical Education Trainers (TMET) Participants

10 Countries

Objectives Facilitators 1. Provide knowledge about existing guidelines, (medical) Yasser Mechati Le Souk-Algeria education theory, models and trends from literature.

2. Provide skills for development of medical education, Birk Bähnemann AMSB-Bulgaria including student leadership and advocacy.

3. Empower and motivate participants to take action at a local and national level.

4. Gather and develop tools and resources for fostering communication and sharing of relevant information for students.

5. Provide skills in peer education and teaching.

6. Introduce the links of SCOME to the world of public health and social accountability.

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Outcomes. The trainees didn't only become experienced in certain Medical Education topics, but also in facilitation and public speaking and they delivered most of the sessions as their graduation training sessions.

We shared with them a toolkit, including materials they can use for future sessions and the SCOME Public folder as them main source.

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Training New Trainers (TNT) Participants

Objectives. Our aim was to create 15 new trainers. By that we mean individuals who possess skills to prepare relevant training session and workshops and conduct them with high quality. Additionally a trainer is someone who is in charge of their own life and promotes personal development as a part of daily life.

11 Countries

Facilitators Anna Bierbooms IFMSA-The Netherlands

Muhammad Rizky Nur Karim CIMSA-ISMKI-Indonesia

Sukhdeep Arora VPCB Training Assistant

Outcomes. The outcome of these workshop are 15 new international IFMSA Trainers on over 11 different countries from 4 different regions. The follow up of these workshop is done by an 6 weeks after evaluation form and a 3 months after evaluation form questioning the impact of the workshop to the participants and their NMO.

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Transforming Our World by 2030: Reaching the Sustainable Development Goals Participants

12 Countries

Background. The overall goal of this workshop was to build Facilitators the capacity of the participants to take on an active role in Alice Claeson achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, through IFMSA United Nations Task Force External Coordiantor IFMSA and their NMOs. Aurora Ursula Joala NMO President EstMSA-Estonia Objectives • Provide an understanding of the UN system and the role that member Cherine Zaïm states and other actors, including the IFMSA, has within it.

IFMSA United Nations Task Force Member • Provide participants with in-depth knowledge about the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development including the Sustainable Development Indira Laksmitha Mulyowahyudi Goals, including the follow up and review process of the 2030 Agenda. IFMSA United Nations Task Force Member • Identify the opportunities that medical students and the IFMSA have to influence and participate in the implementation, monitoring, follow-up and review of sustainable development processes within the UN. • Highlight the connection between international, national and subnational policy.

• Equip participants with the tools and knowledge to take an active part in the follow up and review of UN sustainable development processes, in particular the 2030 Agenda, on the national and international level.

Outcomes. The workshop participants left the workshop with a personal plan of action to implement after the workshop. They will be contacted 3 months after the workshop to assess their progress in implementing their plan. In addition, participants have been provided with the workshop presentations, a list of online resources and a shared Facebook group to discuss

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their follow-up actions. They will also be encouraged to participate in IFMSA activities related to the theme of the workshop.

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Standing Committee and Presidents’ Sessions

Participants

Topics. The NMO management session will be a bit different this time. We have realised that in the past there was a big number of different topics offered to the participants, however they could only superficially touch the content and just as people started learning useful, practical skills, they were over. That is the reason that this year, we will divide the participants in two group at all times and have parallel streams of sessions going on at the same time. This way, every participant will have the possibility to go deeper into the topic and have a better opportunity for learning useful skills. Altogether we have 4 major fields of work we want to focus on: Finances of NMOs Here we mostly dedicated the time to two main aspects of finances.

First one was general financial management of NMOs, which encompasses budgeting, bookkeeping, reporting etc. Furthermore, the participants discovered why is it important to manage these activities well, for the NMO to be attractive to partners.

The second part of the sessions was dedicated to fundraising, mostly grant application writing. Participants learned what a grant is, how to write one and how to make it stand out.

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NMO Management Sessions

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Facilitators Andrej Martin Vujkovac IFMSA Vice-President for Capacity Building

Joakim Bergman IFMSA Vice-President for Finances

Firas Yassine IFMSA Vice-President for Public Relations & Communications

Batool Wahdani Liaison Officer to Student Organizations

Carles Pericas Liaison Officer to Sexual and Reproductive Health issues incl. HIV/AIDS

Skander Essafi Liaison Officer for Public Health issues

Amine Lofti Liaison Officer Organization

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Simeon Mihaylov AMSB-Bulgaria, Capacity Building Support Person to Executive Board

External Representation and Policy making These sessions covered several aspects of external representation. From the opportunities that external collaborations offer to specific tools that can be uses in NMOs. These tools include stakeholder mapping, tools of advocacy, practices of elevator pitches and more. Furthermore the external representation aspect of IFMSA was introduced through sessions on the policy making systems of IFMSA and a presentation on the Global External Focus Areas of IFMSA. Communication in NMOs These sessions focused on different types of communication in the NMOs. This meant internal communication which we separated on online communication and personal meetings. In the online communication, we covered several platforms that can be used in NMOs for communication, whereas in the personal meetings, we took a look at a specific technique of parallel thinking.

The second aspect of communication was external communication, which was broken down on use of Social media and publications. In these sessions, the participants learned the “rules and tools” of social media use and the importance of using proper Corporate Identity in your documents.

Strategic planning and Capacity Building The sessions mainly focused on how to develop a strategic plan. The participants went through the main stages of creating a plan: creating a vision, analysing the current situation, setting goals, defining methodology, proper evaluation and quality assurance. They also learned the importance of strategic decision making for capacity building interventions.

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Pcercentage of Participants

Outcomes. The outcomes of the NMO Management Overall Satisfaction (1-10) session are yet to be fully evaluated.

0.45 This was the first time with the new 0.4 system of NMO management session 0.35 that were divided into 2 parallel stream 0.3 and participants had to choose 0.25 between them. This is how we were 0.2 able to dwell deeper into the subjects 0.15 and actually get to more useful 0.1 knowledge, instead of skimming the 0.05 surface of topics. The participants 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 appreciated this approached as they Score (1 to 10) all agreed (in the post session evaluation) that it was better this way.

A clear majority of participants (over 85%) said they would recommend the sessions to others. We have received some suggestions for improvement, such as making online communication a more advanced session. As outcomes of the sessions we are also creating materials that will be published with the content of some of the sessions. The materials for strategic planning are scheduled for publishing at the end of April.

Other than that, from the evaluation, we have deducted that participants learned new skills, which are very diverse (which is expected with 4 different streams). A comprehensive impact assessment has not yet been made. The nature of these session is also not to take decisions, so there are no other specific outcomes to be reported.

Participants of the NMO Management Sessions at March Meeting 2017

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Presidents’ Session Participants

Topics Discussed • Bylaw Change Proposals • Membership Applications • NMO Involvement in IFMSA • TO-NMO Buddy System • IFMSA Finances • IFMSA Programs • IFMSA Capacity Building • IFMSA External affairs • IFMSA reports (SupCo, Task Forces) • IFMSA Strategy 2017-20

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Facilitators Monica Lauridsen Kujabi IFMSA Vice-President for Members

Caline Mattar Plenary Chairperson

Joakim Bergman IFMSA Vice-President for Finances

Dominic Schmid IFMSA Vice-President for Activities

Omar Cherkoui IFMSA President

Marie Hauerslev

Outcomes Presidents were informed and were given the chance to ask questions and discuss everything to be voted upon in plenary.

Presidents gave valuable input to essential topics related to the development of IFMSA (i.e. capacity building, programs, TO-NMO Buddy System, external affairs etc.).

The Official responsible for the specific areas will incorporate the findings into their work and follow-up individually.

IFMSA Vice-President for External Affairs

Camille Pelletier Vernooy, Stijntje Dijk, Diogo Martins IFMSA Supervising Council members

Externals Henning Bendtsen External Consultant on Strategy

Presidents' Session | Session Relevance Plenary Procedures Finances Membership Formula Programs Capacity Building Sponsorship External Representation NMO Involvement Strategy Bylaws Change Proposal Membership Review SupCo TO-NMO Buddy Session on Day 5 TO-NMO Buddy Session on Day 1

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Participants of the Presidents’ Session at March Meeting 2017

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Participants

Topics covered. During day 1, the introduction topics aimed to revise the mission and vision of SCOME with two parallel sessions. We finished the day with a SCOREME joint session on Open Access.

For the rest of the days we tried to reflect the SCOMErelated programs in our sessions. We had HRH and HS for day 2 as a theme for the posters fair, Ethics and communication is day 3 under EHRH and accreditation and advocacy sessions for Day 4 in relation with MES. On the last day we had an open space with different themes that the participants agreed on and we tackled one of the GEFAs which is Social Accountability (SA) in health.

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Standing Committee on Medical Education (SCOME)

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Facilitators Arij Chatbri, IFMSA Standing Education Director

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Katerina Dima SCOME General Assistant

Dino Mehic SCOME Development Assistant

Aleksandra Likońska SCOME Regional Assistant for Europe

Rahoul Gonsalves SCOME Regional Assistant for Asia-Pacific

Salma Bouguerra SCOME Regional Assistant for EMR

Outcomes. The sessions had two main objectives: Introduction to the topic and leave the space for participants to discuss their challenges and share experience.

For the introduction session, we're using the participants' input to update the SCOME manual. As for the SA session, we used the outcomes for the Students' declaration that we led in the WSSA. We are still working on the follow-up kit as we tried to include reports for some of the sessions so participants can benefit from the discussions that took place.

Yvette Farrugia NOME MMSA-Malta

Tessa Noijons NOME, IFMSA-NL

Yazeed Khrais IFMSA-Jordan

Stijtjne Dijk IFMSA Supervising Council member

Mohsna Bhiri Medical Education Coordinator

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Ximena Núñez NOME AEMPPI-Ecuador

Content vs Needs towards Sessions

Alexander Lachapelle Liaison Officer for Medical Education issues

Maria Golebiowska

OMEGA Survey

Ethics & Human Rights in Healthcare

Social Accountability in Health Medical Education Advocates Accreditation of Medical Schools 101 Communication in Healthcare SCOREME Role of SCOME towards Medical Education Project vs. Adocacy oriented SCOME 0

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Above: Participants of SCOME Session at March Meeting 2017

Above: Participants of SCOPe Session at March Meeting 2017

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Standing Committee on Professional Exchange (SCOPE) Participants

Topics covered. We presented the work that has been done since the start of the term as well as an evaluation of our SCOPE Strategy for 2016-2019. Update on the ifmsa.org and database situation is a very important topic to mention that was tackled during our Sessions including with the Vice-President for Public Relations and Communications, Firas Yassine. Then, the Sessions were focused on sharing our experiences and team build with participants. We had the opportunity to gather them in Small Working Groups to discuss how to improve SCOPE among ten different topics ranging from Finances to motivation of Alumni. The Exchanges Fair was with no doubt the highlight of the Sessions with a great attendance and lots of fun. Exchange training opportunities was also covered during our Sessions with a great facilitation of the sessions by the recent graduated Exchange Trainers. On the last day of our Sessions, we presented the outcomes of our sessions and a proposed way forward to the rest of our successful term.

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Facilitators Rodrigo Enrique Roa IFMSA Standing Committee on Professional Exchange Director

Wilme Steyn SCOPE Regional Assistant Africa

Sarthak Bahl SCOPE Regional Assistant Asia Pacific

Bilal T. Mustafa SCOPE Regional Assistant EMR

Omer Yasir Boz SCOPE Regional Assistant Europe

Tommaso Pomerani SCOPE General Assistant

Dino Silic LEO BoHeMSA-Bosnia & Herzegovina

Florian Herzog Exchange Assistant bvmd-Germany

Outcomes.

Mirjana Stankovic NEO IFMSA-Serbia • You can find the updated version of the SCOPE Regulations here.

Rodrigo Penados • To better understand the changes, you can find a NEO ASOCEM-Guatemala summary here.

Firas Yassine • You can find the final MM17 SCOPE Sessions IFMSA Vice-President for Public Relations & Report here. This is the complete report of the Communications SCOPE Sessions, including the minutes of all Externals discussions, the summaries and outcomes of all Lucas Queiroz Caponi sessions as well as all the Power-Point International Association of Dental Students (IADS) International Exchange Officer presentations we used in Budva.

• You can find the Small Working Group Outcomes here.

Grade "Outstanding" • I take this opportunity to present Training Sessions 2 you our official MM17 SCOPE PRET Hosts Sessions Aftermovie.

Training Session 1 Educational Activites • We are watching it tirelessly on NMO Sharing Experiences repeat, missing every moment we New Technologies Database shared together. Thank you for Academic Quality being part of this great work. You Sharing is Caring are (by far) the best participants we How to organize a Professional…

Introduction to IFMSA/SCOPE could have asked for.

Strategy / AWP Update Introduction

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Standing Committee on Public Health (SCOPH) Participants

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Topics covered. During our sessions we spaced between more administrative topics (SCOPH Strategy, Facilitators Eleonora Dafne Frau SCOPH Regulations, NPO Plenary), and more topic- IFMSA Standing Committee on Public Health Director oriented sessions (NCDs, CDs, Mental Health, …).

On day 1, participants were divided into a beginner and Ahmad Abbadi an advanced group, and they were given updates about SCOPH Regional Assistan tfor EMR international work, as well as invited to reflect on the Carles Diaz SCOPH Vision, Mission and Activities. There was also the SCOPH Talks session during which various SCOPH co-Regional Assistant for Europe inspirational speeches were given, among which an Sana Mäenpää engaging talk about Mental Health and self-criticism. SCOPH Co-Regional Assistant for Europe Finally, participants were asked to give their input on what they believe the SCOPH should be working on Katja Čič SCOPH General Assistant during the next three years (Strategy input session).

On day 2, participants could choose among two different Alex Yang tracks: Communicable or Non-Communicable Diseases. NPO FMS-Taiwan During these sessions, participants discussed the current Skander Essafi situation on a Global level, and also shared different IFMSA Liaision Officer for Public Health issues ideas as to ways forward, especially in terms of the work Dario Genovese we do in the IFMSA. Afterwords, Bettina Borisch gave a session along with Skander about Global health and NPO SISM-Italy Global Public’s Health during which participants were Alicia Delgado called to action to tackle Public Health worldwide.

NPO IFMSA-Spain On day 3, participants could once agian choose between Externals two different tracks: Mental Health and Universal Health Bettina Borisch Coverage. Participants had the possibility to share about Director of the World Federation of Public and discover these topics more in-depth, and once again Health Associations brainstorm and discuss about what can be done in the following months in the IFMSA to tackle these issues.

On the day 4, participants were invited to choose between a series of Public Health related Training Sessions: Advocacy, Leadership and Activity Management. The Handover session was cancelled for lack of participants.

On the day 5, Dario (Italy) and Alicia (Spain) facilitated a session on conflict of interest, and then Skander gave an update about his achievements and work as LPH. Afterwords, the NMO representatives for SCOPH were given 1h to prepare for the NPO plenary, while other participants split into small-working-groups to discuss different issues of their choice (among which Mental Health). During the NPO plenary, the SCOPH Regulations were discussed, and NPOs were informed that SCOPH is now active in Exchanges, in collaboration with SCOPE. Outcomes of the sessions were also discussed, and priorities were voted upon. Also, input on the SCOPH strategy was once again requested, this time asking participants to define priorities on the input gathered during this and previous meetings. After a wrap-up and photo session, the sessions were officially over.

Outcomes. The main outcomes result in a considerable amount of work for the SCOPH International Team during the upcoming months.

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• More work to be done on the SCOPH Regulations, which should be finalized and re-presented during the August Meeting, to be voted upon. Also, the NPOs requested more time to prepare for these modifications beforehand.

• Input and priorities to be formulated into a first final draft of the SCOPH Strategy 2017-2021 • Work to be done to create a Mental Health manual and accompanying resources

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• Work to be done to create a Rural Health manual and accompanying resources • Workd to be done to finalize official documents which will make it possible for NPOs to organize exchanges in Public Health during the upcoming term.

• Video editing of the multiple videos taken of sessions, so people who did not participate in the MM can still have access to its content in a more complete manner.

• Compiling resources into one follow-up kit to send to participants

Participants of SCOPH Sessions at March Meeting 2017

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Standing Committee on Sexual and Reproductive Health incl. HIV/AIDS (SCORA) Participants

Topics covered. We discussed all five focus areas of knowledge within SCORA. Within maternal Health ad access to safe abortion we discussed obstetric violence and humanised birth as well as family planning. We also discussed Comprehensive Sexuality Education in two opportunities. The first one as a basic introduction to all the new members and also in a more advanced focus introducing intersectionality as a CSE process. Gender based violence was definitely much present in this year's sessions starting with our external partner from WHO talking about Female Genital Mutilation and also in our small working groups when we discussed the development of the Women's rights booklet. In the Sexuality & Gender Identity field we had WPATH talk about transgender health as well as specific group for medical education and finally for HIV we had a deep discussion about Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis and also harm reduction.

Outcomes. The main outcomes of this March Meeting are mainly the SWGs created in order to produce a booklet about women’s rights in a humanitarian crisis as well as concrete outcomes for IDAHOT. There has also been a moiment to create a NORA weekend in the European region and SCORAngels felt that we need a larger involvement in external representation and activity.

The SCORA Exchange voting process needs to be further discussed and followed up on in order to make it easier and we have the commitment to have more ideas café time for AM.

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Facilitators Carlos Acosta IFMSA Standing Committee on Sexual and Reproductive Health incl. HIV/AIDS

Pepe Ferren Arbaizar SCORA Regional Assistant for Europe

Anshruta Raodeo SCORA Regional Assistant for Asia-Pacific

Eliza Maria Froicu NORA FASMR-Romania

Frederike Booke SCORA General Assistant

Iheb Jemel LORA Associa-Med-Tunisia

Gonçalo Castro Training Support Division ANEM-Portugal

Stasa Copi NORA SloMSIC-Slovenia

Cintha P Sheila CIMSA-ISMKI-Indonesia

Carles Pericas Liaison Officer for Sexual and Reproductive Health incl. HIV/AIDS

Externals Dr Lale Say WHO Human Reproduction Programme (HRP)

Dr Griet Decuypere World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH)

Dr Elijah Paintsil Yale University, IFMSA Alumnus

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Standing Committee on Research Exchange (SCORE) Participants

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Topics covered. Tested the participants’ knowledge about SCORE. In a series of questions they were asked Facilitators Mauro Camacho about dark blue facts, from the most common to the IFMSA Standing Director on Research more obscure ones. The quizz is divided to different Exchange Director categories, each one of them with different questions Basma Lahmer with different points to be won.

SCORE Regional Assistant for EMR We took some time to go through the NORE Report Anmol Patted results, analyze them, and come up with some important SCORE Regional Assistant for Asia-Pacific points we can get from it.

We updated about what the IT is currently working on Erwin Barboza and what has already been accomplished according to SCORE Regional Assistant for Americas the Annual Working Plan. The NOREs also received an Elise Tirza update about the situation with the database.

SCORE Regional Assistant for Africa NOREs were informed about the upcoming SWGs and Trainings in order for them to make thoughtful decisions Kasia Leszczynska SCORE Regional Assistant for Europe about which they would like to participate in.

Updates on the SCORE Regulations to reflect the current Kate Wang work.

SCORE General Assistant Introduced national officers to initiatives in Academic Erick Marcelo Quality that exist and the resources available to them.

SCORE Supervising Board Shared information about what the SB do and the most common problems we have and how the NOREs could Basak Sezgin SCORE Supervising Board help us make the procedure faster. After, shared with the participants a small, introductive info about the James Janani SCORE Supervising Board candidates before they present themselves.

Participants were informed about the time and place of Chris Gra, the exchange fair and its rules and also offered them a bvmd-Germany series of tips and tricks so they can fully enjoy their Bharat Sharma participation in the fair while getting the most important MSAI India task there done.

Shared with the participants the outcomes that were Simon Muller stated during the Small Working Groups.

IMCC Denmark Finally wrap-up with overview every topic we had over our sessions, and the most important things from each session.

Outcomes • Started the sessions with an interactive session to get the participants more comfortable.

• Tested the Participants’ knowledge and evaluate their areas of weakness.

• Showed NOREs the feedback of their peers.

• Analyzed the feedback and present the findings to the audience.

• Had NOREs analyze and come up to conclusive points from their analysis.

• NOREs and SCORE participants were updated about the current activities of the IT and what has already been accomplished.

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NOREs actively participated in the SWGs and Trainings after making informed decisions.

Only minor changes were made to the SCORE Regulations at this March Meeting.

Introduced the new PDT to the NOREs present and increase interest in its implementation.

Selected NMOs who are interested in implementing the PDT for this exchange season will be asked to give their contact information to the presenter, and they will subsequently be contacted by the Development Assistant on Academic Quality.

Participants understood the SB work better, and it helped the NORE himself/herself and make the whole procedure faster Participants understood the rules of the exchange fair.

Participants got inspired from the tips shared and applying them.

Nores are using the new Folder properly Developed the Nore folder according to the requests of the participants.

NOREs had further ideas Grade "Awesome" on the solutions for the problem topics discussed M17 SCORE Sessions Outcomes Presentation in the SWG / on new topics SWG Outcomes Presentation Sharing is Caring that they can improve or Exchange Training Opportunities apply in their NMOs. Tips and Tricks for Exchanges Fair Provided participants with SB tips and Candidates Presentation an easy, condensed Changes on SCORE FB Group and NORE Folder UNESCO PET Presentation version of results and AQ 101 outcomes of all session Regulation Changes Discussion + Voting topics.

SCOREME IT, AWP and Database Updates

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Standing Committee on Human Rights and Peace (SCORP) Participants

Topics covered. During the SCORP Sessions, we touched upon an array of different topics. After getting to know each other, we had a basic introduction to SCORP and Human Rights for less experienced members in parallel to a session on International Humanitarian Law and Healthcare in Danger with an external from the International Committee of the Red Cross - a much appreciated session with a lot of new information. In another session, we discussed project planning, management and evaluation in terms in an attempt to provide participants with the skills and knowledge to conduct impactful, sustainable and ethical activities in line with the principle of Do No Harm.

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Facilitators Jessica Zhang IFMSA Standing Committee on Human Rights and Peace Director

Marian Sedlak Liaison Officer for Human Rights and Peace issues

Ugonna Nwankpa SCORP Development Assistant

Jose Chen SCORP General Assistant

Idil Kina LORP TurkMSIC-Turkey

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We also looked into health inequalities – one session Facilitators (continued) focused on an intersectional approach, dissecting terms Rujvee Patel such as prejudice and oppression, another session NORP-CB MSAI-India discussed social determinants of health, and yet another Behrouz Nezafat session addressed the discrimination that exists against SCORP Regional Assistant Europe drug users – and what we as medical students can do to Hiba Ghandour improve the situation. We also had a session to look at the TSDD LeMSIC-Lebanon) health and rights of transgender people – or rather, what challenges and violations they face in society.

Jan Haus AMSB Bulgaria At the same time, a parallel session addressed the mental health of displaced persons, focusing especially on Maja Fenander refugees, discussing the challenges faced as well as the Dignifying and Non Discriminatory Healthcare services available in our countries. In another session, we Program Coordinator looked into the hot topic of extremism, linking it to hate speech – a kind of language used to attack, threaten or Panos Vryniotis insult certain groups of people based on their ethnicity, HelMSIC-Greece religion, sexuality and similar. We also had a session on Alba Bassets Bosch the dynamics of peace and conflict, presenting the theories SCORP Regional Assistant Europe, behind both, and allowing the participants to practice some Andreea Florentina Stoenescu concrete skills through a peace negotiation simulation.

Mental Health Program Coordinator In order to prepare for the Policy Document Discussion and voting, as well as in order to ensure that Policy Hana Awil Children Health and Rights Program Documents are used as efficiently as possible, we had a session specially focusing on the SCORP related Policy Coordinator Documents proposed – Access to Medical and Carles Pericas Humanitarian Aid and Protection of Health Services. Apart Liaison Officer for Sexual and Reproductive Health issues incl. HIV/AIDS from all these different sessions mentioned, we had had a SCORP Fair where all the members were able to present activities from their own NMOs, Alice Claeson exchanging ideas and experiences with each other. Five NMOs also got the chance to General Assistand on Refugees to Regional Director for Europe present one of their activities in front of the whole group. We also had six Small Working Groups, the outcomes of which you can find below.

Sera Chamseddine

SCORP Regional Assistant for EMR

Outcomes. The main outcome of the sessions was an increase in knowledge among the participants, in terms of human rights knowledge, as well as related IFMSA, and in terms of CherinetoZaim Emergency, Disaster Risk and Humanitarian skills and methods of action. It Action Program Coordiantor Overall Satisfaction Scores (1-5) has also increased the motivation to work on the Externals 0.7 matter, providing inspiration Agnieszka Cholewinska and new ideas. In addition to 0.6 Health Care in Danger Project at the International Committee of the Red Cross this, the sessions have 0.5 contributed to improve the relation between different 0.4 NMOs and thus the 0.3 possibilities for future collaboration. Following the 0.2 General Assembly, we have 0.1 seen the activation of SCORP 0 on national level in several 1 2 3 4 5 NMOs. Participating scoring overall satisfaction with SCORP sessions with indicated grades

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During the meeting, we also adopted new TNHRT regulations, updated our vision, mission and key terms and set the foundation for the future of SCORP Camp and SCORP Camp regulations. These decisions were voted upon by the NMOs, and will be implemented by the SCORP International Team.

Through the Small Working Groups (SWGs) conducted, we created the basis for International Campaign Guidelines, collected input on GoSCORP regulations and SCORP Priorities and Programs, and planned actions relating to Disaster Risk Reduction as well as Fundraising.

Each SWG has its own follow up plan, and the outcomes will be followed up by the SCORP International Team together with the relevant members and facilitators.

This meeting has also provided the SCORP International Team with ideas for how to improve the planning and execution of different activities for the August Meeting to come, to make our sessions even better!

Participants of SCORP Sessions at March Meeting 2017

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Regional Sessions

Participants

Topics. The session was designed to re-introduce IFMSA to members who are not familiar with the way IFMSA operates (which is most of the Asia-Pacific region) as well as give an opportunity for Standing Committee regional assistants to engage better with the members of their standing committee. We discussed the new host for APRM 2017, we also discussed what has been missing from the Standing Committees and Regional Team work in general through small group discussions, and create strategies to improve the way we engage with the members in the future. Other than that, we also engaged with the members through a focus group discussion in which we talked about “What you want from IFMSA”: this allowed us to truly hear what the members understand about IFMSA, what they want to know more, and the thoughts of all participants on how the AP region can be better involved in IFMSA work. A best-project showcase was also done, providing an opportunity for the best project in the region to be presented and for the members to ask questions about it, allowing a forum for best practices to be shared and hopefully inspiring better projects in the future.

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Facilitators Satria Nur Sya'ban IFMSA Regional Director for Asia-Pacific

Anshruta Raodeo SCORA Regional Assistant for Asia-Pacific

Rahoul Gonsalves SCOME Regional Assistant for Asia-Pacific

Sarthak Bahl SCOPE Regional Assistant for Asia-Pacific

Anmol S. Patted SCORE Regional Assistant for Asia-Pacific

José Chen SCORP General Assistant

Sheng Alex Yang SCOPH Support Person

Estella Chen SCOPH Support Person

Jamie Hung Internal Taiwan

Development

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AP/FMS-

Outcomes Mokshada Sharma 1. New Host of the APRM: follow up will be done by Asia-Pacific Sessions Support Person weekly meeting with OC head and strong coordination to ensure all information is communicated adequately.

2. Standing Committee Session / President Parallel Session Result: we found what the NMO Presidents and the SC members think is lacking in their respective fields, and we made plans to improve it in the future, follow up will be through OLMs and productions of items that the NMO presidents agreed needed to be created to assist the region (e.g., infographics, country specific strategy).

3. What members want from IFMSA: follow up will be through Presidents and National officers, first through assessing which inputs can and cannot be implemented.

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Participants

Topics. The following toipcs were discussed: • Capacity Building Opportunities • External Representation Opportunities • Standing Committees • Regional Collaboration/Fundraising/Open Space for Discussions • Task Force on International Structure • WHSA • WHO opportunities • Regional Team Report

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Americas

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Facilitators Ivan Fabrizzio Canaval Diaz IFMSA Regional Director for the Americas

Candela Benvides Americas Internal Development Assistant

Manuel Mendive Americas Involvement Assistant

Outcomes. Creation of SWG on Regional Collaboration, the call was sent out and we are in the application process and from that we will start working in the areas to tackle in the next months.

Participants

Topics. During the sessions, we had an overview on IFMSA. We did a Kahoot, an animated game by which we were able to learn and play. We reminded our members of some facts about the Federation, as the founding year, how many NMOs and countries are represented, etc. We had a talk from our external, Prof Elijah who shared with us his journey in IFMSA and his outside experience. Our LOWHO took us through the opportunities we have with WHO, reminding us about the internship at WHO Afro. We concluded the first day with the presentation by the Taks Force on International Teams.

In second session, we held Standing Committee Sessions. We had groups working on the African Strategy, reflecting on our goals and processing valuable input. We winded up with a presentation from the IFMSA LOSO that highlighted the opportunities we have with other health students associations and a beautiful group picture.

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Facilitators Magnifique Irakoze IFMSA Regional Director for Africa

Monica Kujabi IFMSA Vice-President for Members

Omar Cherkaoui IFMSA President

Amine Lofti IFMSA Liaison Officer to WHO

Andrej M. Vujkovac IFMSA Vice-President for Capacity Building

Skander Essafi Liaison Officer for Public Health issues

Batool Wahdani IFMSA Liaison Officer to Student Organizations

Jessica Zhang IFMSA Standing Committee on Human Rights and Peace Director

Outcomes. We could measure the impact of the sessions through the feedback from the participants. The participants mentioned their satisfaction about the sessions, mainly with the external’s talk, Prof Elijah who is originally from Ghana and who was the IFMSA President in 1991. He reminded us to think and take care of what matter the most, he shared us how it

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was like leading the IFMSA without Internet available, sending documents by post. He also shared with us his passion for the region.

Secondly, the participants enjoyed the WHO collaboration with the presentation on the work of the Federation with WHO and the Internship opportunities.

Through this regional session, we got very rich input from the participants about the ongoing strategy. We also tackled ongoing challenges about visas. Visas have been an issue for delegates to IFMSA events for many years. The session made us think of more strategies and tips to apply for next visas.

Participants

Topics. The following toipcs were discussed: • World Health Students' Alliance • SC Session / Presidents Session • EMR Strategy 2017-20 • World Health Organization • EMR13 Financial Report • EMR14 host updates

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Eastern Mediterranean Region

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Facilitators Sharif Ba Alawi IFMSA Regional Director for EMR

EMR Regional Team Batool Wahdani IFMSA Liaison Officer to Student Organizations

Andrej Vujkovac

Outcomes Vice-President for Capacity Building • Help NMOs reach other student organizations in our countries and establish the basis for Amine Lofti Liaison Officer to World Health Organization collaborations.

• SCs & president session were of continuation of Adonis Wazir discussions that were conducted in the morning EMR13 Treasurer session of the General Assembly but on a regional Saad Chaibi Level.

NMO President IFMSA-Morocco • EMR Strategy 2017-20.

Prioritise 3 topics/challenges And discussing the outcomes of Bilal Mustafa SCOPE Regional Assistant for EMR the goals.

• World Health Organization - have a better Abdul Rahman Bakery understanding how does IFMSA Work with WHO IFMSA-Egypt and what are the eras that IFMSA is concerns the most. Along with opportunities that are provided for member regional and Internationally.

• EMR13 Financial Report initial report presented and discussed with EMR NMOs and to be adopted in AM2017.

• EMR14 host updates share with EMR NMOs regarding the venue and location of EMR14.

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Facilitators Priit Tohver IFMSA Regional Director for Europe

Alice Claeson General Europe

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Hana Lucev General Assistant on Resistance for Europe

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Aleksandra Likonska

Joakim Bergman

SCOME Regional Assistant for Europe

IFMSA Vice-President for Finances

Behrouz Nezafat

Skander Essafi

SCORP Regional Assistant for Europe

Liaison Officer for Public Health issues

Alba Bassets

Amine Lofti

SCOME Regional Assistant for Europe

Liaison Offider Organization

Pepe Ferrer SCORA Regional Assistant for Europe

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Batool Wahdani Liaison Officer to Student Organizations

Birk Bähnemann

Carles Diaz

Capacity Building Regional Assistant for Europe

SCOPH Regional Assistant for Europe

Katarzyna Leczynska

Emma Pereira NMO President IFMSA-Spain

Saana Mäenpää SCOPH Regional Assistant for Europe

SCORE Regional Assistant for Europe

Serhat Yildirim NMO President TurkMSIC-Turkey

Ömer Yasir Boz SCORE Regional Assistant for Europe

Topics. The following toipcs were discussed: • European IOGs & regulations • European Regional Meeting • Collaboration with EMSA • Antimicrobial resistance • Refugee Rights & Health • Priorities of the European Strategy • World Health Organization • World Health Student Alliance • European Policy documents Outcomes. New IOGs & regulations were adopted. Amendments to the European Strategy were adopted. Both were integrated into the existing documents. EuRegMe registration was re-opened after the session. Regional policy documents were adopted. EMSA collaboration discussion will most likely be moved to EuRegMe and the WHSA talk was followed up by the LOSO via a webinar. The discussions on the Strategy will continue at EuRegMe.

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Capacity Building Sessions

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Conflict Management Participants

Objectives and Methods. During this session, the following Facilitators questions were tackled: What is a conflict? What is conflict Frida VizcaĂ­no management? What is the difference between a conflict and a Capacity Building Regional Assistant for the Americas, problem? We looked at the conflict evolution curve and the attitudes people usually take while confronting a conflict. Next, we looked at what to do when one is having a conflict, including preventive behaviours.

Evaluation and Follow up. There was approximately 85% satisfaction, some participants came up to me and said it was actually pretty useful, they learned things they didn't know and that now they could put into practice. They wished it could've lasted longer but since we got the plenary room, we had to finish before time, and they also said they would've liked a role play dynamic, to have more clear what to do and what not to do when facing a conflict.

Participants all asked me to send them the bibliography from where I got the information to build up the theoretical part of the training session.

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Promotion Participants

Objectives and Methods. NGOs live of a good name. They usually do not have a lot of money or manpower, but their purpose is the thing that keeps them alive. Promoting and advertising their values and good deeds is key to keeping them in the fight for better health of the world. This training session's aim is for its participants to learn how to promote an organisation to different groups: students, partners and the recognition and consequently more influence.

Facilitators Daniel Memarpour NOME IFMSA-Spain

Ernesto Caballero NMO president IFMSA-Paraguay

public in order to get more

Evaluation and Follow Up. Around 80% satisfaction, overall they liked it but participants thought the training should've lasted longer and the facilitators could've gone deeper into the content of the training. The facilitators considered they had very little time to prepare their training since they were given the topic on short notice, so they would like for future events to inform the facilitators their topic with more time ahead, so they can have more time to prepare and make a better research on the content.

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Handover Participants

Objectives and Methods.

The following topics were Facilitators covered: Muhammad Rizky Nur Karim Infographic Assistant to VPPRC • Definition of handover • The importance of a handover Mahzed Kherybek LORE SMSA-Syria • Timeline of a handover • Steps of doing a handover • Dos and don’t’s during a handover Evaluation and Follow Up. Around 85-90% satisfactory rate. For the feedback given by the participants, there are several things that could be noted. First, they felt the contents are really important and helpful, and they suggest to have more practice time and sharing session.

Second, they were really happy with the energizer. It was a really popular energizer in Indonesia, so Muhammad decided to change it into IFMSA-ish bit on the spot, and it worked!

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Feedback Participants

Objectives and Methods.

The following topics were Facilitators covered: Thomas Dewaele LEO BeMSA-Belgium • Sandwich-model feedback • BIO feedback Antony Nemr • Adjusting your feedback style based on the personality LORA LeMSIC-Lebanon and communication style of the person you are giving the feedback to.

Evaluation and Follow Up. Overall 80% satisfaction rate. Participants said they liked the content of the sessions and the interactive games, but said that the trainers were not showing enough passion and enthusiasm.

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Recruitment Participants

Objectives and Methods. The session at the following Facilitators objectives: Ugonna Nwankpa • To know why people join a NMO and why they joined SCORP Development Assistant IFMSA themselves so they could use it in the next Eline Laumen member recruitment.

LC President IFMSA-NL. • To know the reason why different organisations need members so they can use it when planning their recruitment.

• To know what kind of members the different oranisations need so they can use it when planning their recruitment.

• To know how they can explain IFMSA and its goal to potential members, but also how they can apply the golden circle to recruiting new members.

• To know how they can motivate someone.

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To know what kind of qualities a perfect IFMSAian has so they can use it during their next recruitment.

Get to know what barriers they should take away during members recruitment. G iving the opportunity to discuss problems and solve each others’ problems.

Evaluation and Follow Up. Overall 90% satisfaction. They liked the topics that were discussed during the trainings, as well as the facilitators' performance, and how they material they used was very simple. They thought the training session was very useful and they got many useful ideas. They would've liked to have a break, to have had more time for the golden circle part, and for Eline (who was graduating from her TNT) to be more confident of herself since she was doing a pretty good job.

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Getting support from Governments or Universities Participants

Objectives and Methods. The session aimed to cover the Facilitators following topics: Stijntje Dijk • Why is this topic important for us as members of IFMSA Supervising Council IFMSA? Saad Chaibi • What is the direct impact in our work?

NMO president IFMSA-Morocco • What is the added value of student organizations towards .governments and universities: future, good investment, status of the university/image.

• What is the added value of governments and university for student associations?

• How do we make sure that we benefit from their support?

• Elevator dynamic.

• How to get recognition Evaluation and Follow Up. 95% satisfaction rate. The facilitators didn't provide much feedback but that the participants really enjoyed and learned from the training session.

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Internal Communication Participants

Objectives and Methods. The session had the following Facilitators objectives: Ema Čaušić 1. Participants have general knowledge about models of VPI CroMSIC communication (ShannonWeaver model of Kim van Daalen NPO IFMSA-The Netherlands communication) .

2. Participants are aware of the importance of the structured feedback, especially in the internal communication in the NMO 3. Participants have examples of good practices of communication in NMOs Evaluation and Follow Up. 90% satisfaction rate. Participants loved the topics that were discussed, they thought the training session was really useful and they loved the trainers' performance. However they would've liked a role play dynamic and for the information to be more detailed.

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Motivation Participants

Objectives and Methods. The session had the following Facilitators objectives: Hiba Ghandour • Understand the basis of motivation, how to approach it, TSDD LeMSIC-Lebanon how it is attained. This section is in preparation for the coming sections, culminating to get to the point where they can find their own way to reach motivation at the end.

• Demotivating factors. What motivates them? Road map to motivation. Positive thinking regards as to who they will become in the future; as leaders • what makes them special and how will they utilize it to spread the influence?

• Dynamic discussion on questions about motivation Evaluation and Follow Up. 95% satisfaction rate. Participants considered they got more than what they were expecting since they didn't just learn how to motivate, but ended up getting motivated themselves.

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Teambuilding Participants

Objectives and Methods. Objectives of this session were to Facilitators understand the meaning of the team, to understand the George Dabanlis meaning of the team building and to understand why it is HelMSIC-Greece necessary. To know some ways of making team working Alice Yin better.

LPO IFMSA-China Evaluation and Follow Up. 75% satisfaction rate. Facilitators considered they didn't have enough time to prepare the training session since they had really short notice on the topic they were talking about. Participants did get the main point, but with more preparation it could've been better. Also having TNTs graduating on GAs might not be the best, specially if they're given their topics on short notice, because they have no experience at all, therefore they need way more time than any other trainer to do proper research to prepare the training session.

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Public Speaking Participants

Objectives and Methods. Objectives of this session were to Facilitators give participants the opportunity to train their public speaking Jordy Borg skills, to provide the participants with tools to facilitate the VPI MMSA-Malta development of their skills, to help participants gain the Victoria Hogrell confidence in public speaking, to give participants the NPO IFMSA-Sweden. opportunity to practice and to have a good time and get to know each other.

Evaluation and Follow Up. Overall 88% satisfaction rate. The liked being pulled out of thei comfort zone during the training session, they thought it was fun and loved the performance of the trainers. They would've liked more tips for public speaking.

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“The Backbone is Stronger than Ever” - Picture with the most IFMSA Trainers ever.

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Theme Event | Non-Communicable Diseases Youth Caucus IFMSA hosted an NCD Youth Caucus in Budva, Montenegro, engaging medical students from all parts of the world to increase awareness and encourage advocacy and meaningful youth participation at all levels of society. The NCD Youth Caucus was an official pre-dialogue meeting prior to the Global Dialogue meeting organized by the WHO Noncommunicable Diseases Global Coordination Mechanism (NCD GCM) in October 2017. The NCD conversation was initiated by a keynote address by Dr. Bente Mikkelsen, Head of WHO NCD GCM, at the IFMSA General Assembly opening ceremony.

During the two caucus sessions, the program combined panel discussions by global and national experts with workshops for young people to discuss challenges, solutions and effective policies in their respective contexts. With two panels, we aimed for a comprehensive overview of the different approaches and types of solutions to NCDs. A primary outcome of the NCD Youth Caucus was the Budva Youth Declaration: A Call to Action on Noncommunicable Diseases. Data was gathered from 128 National Member Organisations about the medical curriculums inclusion of NCD prevention and upstream factors to NCDs. The main call to action is to increase financial investments in action to address NCDs now, in order to curb the economic and social impact of these diseases in the future.

Panel and Participants of the NCD Youth Caucus theme event

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Theme Event | Organ and Tissue Donation - Donate Life Prof. Dr Marina Ratković from University of Montenegro and Dr Nemanja Radojevuć were the speakers on this topic during the theme event at the IFMSA GA MM17. At the start, some examples from real life people and their stories were presented. These highlighted that becoming an organ and tissue donor is an incredible and noble gift because you can give someone literally life.

Organ and tissue donation saves and improves many lives every year. If more people donated organs and tissue, an impact on more lives could be achieved. This is not only a medical problem in Montenegro and worldwide but also the whole society needs to take a part into this huge process in order to work. Unfortunately, the need for organ donors is much greater than the number of people who actually donate.

The following conclusions could be drawn from the lecture: • Almost everyone can help others through organ and tissue donation.

• The governing factors are where and how a donor dies and the condition of their organs and tissues.

• While your age and medical history will be considered, you should not assume you are too young, too old or not healthy enough to become a donor.

• All major religions support organ and tissue donation for transplantation • People can also donate a kidney or part of their liver while they are still alive, though this is usually restricted to those wanting to transform the life of someone they know.

On the end of the lecture Dr Vladimir Prelevic and Dr Goran Mijaljica had great workshop where they explained to the participants how the process of transplantation and organ donation actually works.

Panel at the Organ Donation Theme Event

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Activities Fair The Activities Fair aims to give a space to projects, conferences and all other initiatives launched by the National Member Organizations of IFMSA. A call for was launched among Officials, International Assistants, Program Coordinators and Sessions Team members. In total, 29 judges evaluated the Activities with short interviews. We used four selection criteria: Activity Design, Activity Implementation, Activity Evaluation Impact and Visibility.

A maximum of five points could be reached for every criterion, with each point value being a signed a qualitative description.

Every judge evaluated up to ten Activities. It became apparent that judges should be assigned to Activities well before the Activity and should be briefed better about the selection criteria, to ensure a more accurate evaluation.

This Activities Fair marks the first time that we have grouped Activities according to which Program they best fit under.

Program Coordinators were provided with the contact information of Activity Coordinators in order to approach them for affiliation with their Program. They were also able to talk directly with the Activity Coordinators at the fair itself. A discussion took place with Standing Committee Directors to update the selection criteria for Activities Fair, so as to ensure a more just evaluation.

Participants of the Activities Fair at the March Meeting 2017

115 Activities presented

1st Place Free Medical Day: Your Health, Your Right!

LeMSIC-Lebanon 2nd Place Federal Lobby Day CFMS-Canada Project Burans AMSA-Australia

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Rex Crossley Award This Award, named after IFMSA’s First President Rex Crossley, aims to showcase IFMSA’s most impactful Activities Written applications were judged according to the same criteria as Activities Fair (Activity Design, Activity Implementation, Activity Evaluation Impact and Visibility). Furthermore, the quality of the submitted article was evaluated. For the presentations at the March Meeting, it was agreed with the directors of SCOME, SCOPH, SCORA and SCORP that they would be judging the Rex Crossley Award and that we would be looking for additional judges among International Assistants and Program Coordinators. The 9 judges again followed the same criteria and questioned Presenters. Combining evaluations of the written application and the presentation, which were weighed equally, yielded the final score.

As for Activities Fair, the applications were shared with Program Coordinators before, so they could approach Activity Coordinators to aim to enrol the Activities. The main outcome of this GA’s RCA is the much-enhanced promotion of the event on social media, which resulted in a significantly higher number of participants. Furthermore, delegates were asked to sign up for either Rex Crossley Awards or Theme Event which ran in parallel, which boosted an equal distribution of delegates among the sessions. Lastly, the coordinator of the winning has been interviewed on film, to have better promotion materials available.

10 Activities presented

1st Place Déan Athrú: Making a change in the west AMSI-Ireland 2nd Place National Smoking Awareness Campaign: Put it Out! IFMSA-Jordan 3rd Place Project Immuno SloMSIC-Slovenia

Presenter and judges at the Rex Crossley Award Presentations at March Meeting 2017

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Exchanges Fair The participants of exchanges fair promoted their country, their exchange program and what they do to attract students worldwide. Most of the NMOs focused on the academic quality of their exchange and how much the program they are offering has an impact on their international students. Selection of the best stand was made through a formal voting. Each NMO had one vote for SCOPE and one vote for SCORE, votes were matched and defined the final result.

Before it start, we had a talk with our Special guest Elijah Paintsil Medical Doctor from Ghana, who was IFMSA President in 1991. He talked about the importance of IFMSA and how was the Exchanges Fair back at his time. After his great speech, at 10:00, we officially announced the start of the Exchanges Fair.

We will make sure to continue this tradition for the upcoming one.

Participants of the Exchanges Fair at the March Meeting 2017

75 NMOs presented

1st Place: IFMSA-Brazil 2nd Place: TurkMSIC-Turkey 3rd Place: Associa-Med-Tunisia

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Sexual health in Mental Health patients Participants

Both Sexual Health and Mental Health can be taboo topics in Facilitators many countries around the world, put them together and the Iheb Jemel barriers to providing adequate healthcare to these patients AssociaMed Tunisia further increases. In this session, participants first defined Mihelcic what sexual health and mental health were, then delved Gita SloMSIC Slovenia deeper into discussing the stigma, prejudice and discrimination patients may face in these two areas of health. Ugonna Nwankpa They were then split into small working groups to discuss the SCORP Development Assistant unique problems which may arise in dealing with the sexual health of patients with mental health issues from a biological, social and psychological point of view and finally, they acted out these scenarios in the form of roleplay in order to practise solutions to these issues in healthcare.

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Intercultural Learning and Multicultural Patients Participants

The SCORP-SCOPE Joint Session aimed at providing the Facilitators participants with some basic knowledge about culture and Tommaso Pomerani interculturality, the connection between culture and health, the SCOPE General Assistant value of cultural competence in the medical profession and JosĂŠ Chen the importance of IFMSA exchanges as opportunities to SCORP General Assistant enhance our cultural competencies.

The first part of the session was focused on some definitions related to culture and how it affects health, together with some intercultural interactive activities. In the second part, SCOPE exchanges were introduced and their role in enhancing medical students' cultural competences was highlighted. The topics discussed were culture shock and how to deal with a multicultural patient, with a more practical discussion activity (based on some case studies) which supported the theoretical part and was focused on ethical issues that may be encountered while working in a different cultural setting.

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Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in Humanitarian Settings Participants

In the wake of the humanitarian crises happening around the Facilitators world, sexual and reproductive health is not considered a Sera Chamseddine priority for the refugee community, which ultimately has SCORP Regional Assistant for EMR several negative consequences. In this session, participants Sohayla Bendaoud were introduced to the basic definitions of sexual and NORA IFMSA-The Netherlands reproductive health rights, and through a series of case

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studies identified the barriers, consequences and possible solutions to guarantee the respect for these rights among the refugee community.

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The Importance of Feminism: Understanding our Own Role Participants

Doctors and medical students are still facing several barriers Facilitators because they are women. Many of the barriers standing in the Alba Bassets Bosch way for women doctors during the 20th century are still SCORP Regional Assistant for Europe present in the 21st .

Rujvee Patel Following an introduction, we read a real story to exemplify NORP-CB MSAI India the issues a woman may face in her medical career. Then, we Anshruta Raodeo had a group discussion about the multiple levels of barriers to SCORA Regional Assistant for Asia Pacific work as a medical doctor and women, and best practices to address them were proposed.

Finally, participants explored their own power and privilege, and we discussed about the differences among different individuals and their implications.

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Refugees and Health Participants

The world is currently seeing huge groups of population Facilitators moving around. The conflict in Syria, the discrimination in Behrouz Nezafat Myanmar and the social inequity in Haiti are all examples of SCORP Regional Assistant for Europe different push factors that force individuals to leave their Alice Claeson homes. The impact of the influx of migrants is a topic widely General Assistant on Refugees for Europe discussed in politics and as healthcare professionals we must Amelie Hofmann be aware of the impact a large influx can have on the health bvmd Germany system. During the workshops we looked at Rohingya refugees that arrive in Malaysia. We discussed the current situation of the health system in this host country and looked at how the health system could be prepared and strengthened to ensure it could meet the health needs of the refugees as well as continue to provide the health care that the local population demands.

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Refugees and Health Participants

Immunization is one of the most successful and cost-effective Facilitators means to ensure the health of children and to assist them in Hana Awil growing into healthy adults. Despite the enormous progress, Children Health & Rights PC one in five children is not being reached. No child should be Ahmad Abbadi denied access to immunization. With this session we intended SCOPH Regional Assistant for EMR to provide participants with the tools, skills and knowledge to understand the disparities in access to vaccines, the role of medical students, including assessing local needs and challenges, subsequently identifying the gaps in immunization and how they could be closed.

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From Clinical to Cultural Perspectives Participants

Participants were asked who had been on an IFMSA Facilitators Exchange before, and if they knew about volunterism.

Maria Golebiowska An Ethical terms map was given (participants received a list of Ethics & Human Rights Program Representative 6-7 terms related to ethics, culture, tradition etc and they Basma Lahmer should create a mind map with those.

Culture and ethics in intercultural learning theory. The session SCORE Regional Assistant for EMR looked at the 3 levels of understanding of people's decision Erick Marcelo Torres making - human-traditonal-personal, cultural sensitivity, SCORE Supervising Board cultural understanding, culture shock, intercultural learning in IFMSA exchanges.

Next, two decision making algorithms on how to make ethical decisions were presented.

Finally, possible ethical dilemmas in exchanges - ethical cases - were explored in role play and dsicussionn. Participants also discussed how medical students should be prepared for ethical challenges.

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Professional Exchanges on Public Health Participants

The first SCOPH Exchange happened in the end of the 80s Facilitators under the name "Calcutta Village Project". This was a very Florain Herzog popular concept and several other projects followed. In 2009 Exchange Assistant bvmd-Germany Christopher Pleyer (SCOPH-D 2009-2010) and Anna Klicpera Dino Silic (SCOPH-D 2010-2011) picked it up again and developed the LEO BoHeMSA-Bosnia and Herzegovina website where every NMO can post their SCOPH Exchanges. Ella Dafne (The link to the website in here: IFMSA Standing Committee on Public Health http://scophexchange.blogspot.be/). This website is not being Director updated anymore, and since 2009 many more NMOs developed projects that use the name “SCOPH Exchange� or can be regarded as a SCOPH Exchange. The lack of unification and centralization of knowledge and guidance of in this program pushed the SCOPH International Team to work on the topic again this time joint forces with the largest student-run Exchange Program, SCOPE. During the Session, we discussed how are we going to do this (exchanges targeting PH institutions), what do we need to make it happen? (SCOPE regulations, SCOPH guidelines, mutual expertise and collaboration, etc.). We consider the possibility of talking about the SCOPE online GA happening in May, however more information will be given soon to our Members by SCOPH International Team.

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SCOREME: An Innovative Workshop on OpenAccess & Open Data Participants

Based on feedback from participants, the session seems to Facilitators have been a success! Positive points include introducing Alexander Lachapelle participants to OpenAccess, realizing it's an issue that affects IFMSA Liaison Officer for Medical Education issues students worldwide, receiving their comments and ideas, seeing the motivation to organize activities at home, and desire to collaborate with other NMOs. Follow-up points include making sure that help is given to NMOs interested in organizing their own activities, and following up at the August meeting. Overall a session to repeat!

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Programs Sessions

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Health Systems Participants

I think it was well conducted but we ran short of time in the Facilitators end. Participants were engaged and asked lots of questions to Carles Diaz the projects that were presented. They also learnt what Health Systems Program Representative IFMSA programs are, since almost all of them had only a Martin Hladik vague idea of what they are. For instance, the enrolment IFMSA-Czech Republic process was totally unknown for them, so I had to spend a bit more time in this part than expected. The outcomes were already shared with the actual Program Coordinator: we worked on the relation of Health Systems and all of the Standing Committees, with few examples of activities that could be organised around different topics.

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Access to Safe Abortion and Family Planning Participants

This program session was divided in 3 different parts: Facilitators 1. In the beginning, we had a brief session about the Emmeli Mikkelsen IFMSA program structure in general. We introduced the Maternal Health and Access to Safe Abortion Program Coordinator 18 different IFMSA programs, and explained the role of the program coordinator, the benefits from enrolling Chantal Marchini activities, and explained how to engage in the IFMSA HIV and other STIs Program Coordinator programs (enrollment, CF, reporting, etc.).

Carlos Acosta Standing Committee on Sexual and 2. Then, we had a session on Family Planning and Access IFMSA Reproductive Health Director to Safe Abortion. We discussed women's rights to safe abortion services, and gave the participants a brief introduction to the different health aspects, complications and barriers to unsafe abortion procedures.

3. In the end, we came up with solutions to these barriers and brainstormed about what activities could be conducted to overcome them. Furthermore, the participants got a brief introduction on how to plan activities in general, and they were briefly divided into three small working groups in order to plan their own activity on access to safe abortion.

After making a rough evaluation, the participants felt more competent about the IFMSA program structure, Family Planning and Access to Safe Abortion, and how to plan an activity in general than before the session.

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The Ill Effects of Stereotyping and Discrimination on Childen's Development Participants

Children are not spared from the effects of norms and Facilitators discrimination in the world. During this session we addressed Hana Awil children’s development in relation to the concept of norms and Children Health & Rights Coordiantor discrimination. By using research conducted, we discussed social exclusion of traditionally discriminated groups and it’s Maja Fenander & Non-Discriminatory effects on children’s and societal development as well as how Dignified Program Coordiantor it relates to health and to our responsibilities as future physicians.

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Human Resources for Health Participants

The session desired outcomes were: Facilitators 1. Introduce the basics of Human Resources for Health: Dino Mehic SCOME Development Assistant the definition and the main challenges they’re facing.

2. Promoting the Program Mohsna Bhiri Medical

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Coordinator The session featured the following elements: 1. HRH in numbers: we presented to the participants some choking figures about the shortage in the health workforce 2. The definition of HRH: brainstorming then a discussion about the WHO definition of HRH. 3. HRH challenges: a. From the health workforce point of view: i. Video projection: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCSmIYmPOi4 ii. SWG: Problems that the health professionals are facing + solutions b. From the community point of view: we explained this graphic that shows that when it comes to HRH it’s not only about numbers. http://healthworkers.savethechildren.net/wpcontent/uploads/2013/10/GHWA_Figure1b.jpg c. From a global point of view: We explained how the health professionals problems at a local level may affect other countries 4. IFMSA Programs: a. In general: We explained what are the programs, how do they work and what can they benefit from them b. HRH program: we explained its main areas of work 5. Discussion about activities in participants’ NMOs that are related to HRH and that can be enrolled 6. Evaluation

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Organ, Marrow and Tissue Donation Participants

My main goals with the session was to advertise the blood Facilitators donation campaign, introduce the general program structure Buğra Egeli and the OTMD program specifically, then help the participants Organ, Marrow & Tissue Donation Program Representative coming up with their activities. After the introductions, we talked on types of activities we can do as a part of the program.

Lastly, I wanted to highlight the importance of advocacy. With a small simulation game, I explained what advocacy is and how to advocate in local committees.The feedbacks were really good. 3 participants said that they attended the best session overall in the GA.

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Mental Health Participants

This session focused on Medical Students’ Mental Health. In Facilitators the beginning, a “blind survey” was performed, to gage how Eleonora Dafne Frau many participants had already had Mental Health issues, and IFMSA Standing Committee on Public Health Director how many had already had a friend with a Mental Health issue. The topic of “Why are we, the younger generation, often considered weaker and more sensitive?” was then approached, first by analyzing the generational vulnerability that we seem to have (generation Y and Z), then by exploring the risk factors that, as Medical Students, tend to make us more vulnerable to Mental Health issues. These risk factors include the large workload, pressure to know everything, perfectionism, …

By sharing aspects that stress us and what we do to cope with stress we discussed the concepts of “Resilience”, “Coping”, “Stress” and “Stressors”. We also discussed the different stages of Burnout Syndrome, and what Medical Students can do in case they notice signs of Burnout Syndrome in a colleague or in themselves. Finally, various personal stories were shared, more fully illustrating the different concepts discussed during the session, and creating a cohese atmosphere.

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Activity Enrolment Patrol/Enrolment Booth Participants

During the Program Session, the Patrol would go out to the Facilitators different topical sessions. Here, we would inform Line Damsgaard participants that they could always go to us with help for Environment & Health Program Coordiantor enrolment, (questions for the enrolment form, which Maria Jose Cisneros Healthy Lifestyles & Non-Communicable program would be suitable, etc) Originally, the idea was that they could also enroll activities Diseases Program Coordinator while we where there to help - however, we found out during Chérine Zaïm Disaster Risk and the sessions that activity coordinators often did not feel Emergencies, Humanitarian Action Program Coordinator comfortable enrolling "on the spot", as they thought they Ahmed Taha needed more time.

Comprehensive Sexuality Education Program We also realized that participants were confused by us Coordinator coming to interrupt the sessions to offer help as PC’s, as the Andreea Stoenescu facilitators of the sessions where also PC's/PR's, and could Mental Health Program Coordinator have helped themselves.

We therefore decided to set up a "Program Enrolment Booth", where activities could come and ask questions, and then the Patrol advertised for the booth. Not many people came by the booth, but we helped a few to match them to the right program, so overall it felt worth wile to sit there.

In the future it is recommendable to rethink the structure - perhaps to have the enrolment booth open at some point during the meeting where people are likely to have some free time, and then to advertise for this during the sessions.

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Miscellaneous Sessions Policy Discussions by Marie Hauerslev, IFMSA Vice-President for External Affairs We started the session with an introduction to which policies were up for adoption, the new policy document system and the method of the session. We divided into groups for each policy document proposal, each steered by the policy commission. We aimed to focus on implementation, need and usage of each new policy - upcoming advocacy opportunities and reasons for the different components. However, there was still focus on amendments to some extend, which we tried to keep to a minimum and made sure to coordinate as best as possible, for NMOs to know what would be proposed during plenary (to make informed decisions).

IFMSA Strategy by Omar Cherkaoui, IFMSA President IFMSA is currently developing its new strategy for 2017/2020, that is going to be adopted in the August Meeting 2017. Since the start of the term, in several meetings as well as online, the IFMSA Team of Officials have run consultations of our members. This March Meeting 2017 came as an excellent additional opportunity to consult all our members from different regions and different NMOs at once, on how they see the Federation in three years, drawing therefore literally the future of IFMSA. This session was coordinated by Henning Bendtson, our strategy external consultation from Denmark, who has been helping us from the start in this big task, as well as IFMSA President, Omar Cherkaoui.

After a brief introduction to the Strategy, and their task, the participants were invited to meet with their own NMO to discuss two main things they want to see in the Federation in three years. The outcomes of their discussions were then sent to us via email.

In parallel, the session was recorded in a video and sent to our NMOs who were not present in the GA, in order to include them too. It was really warming to see that these NMOs have participated too and sent us their outcomes.

Open Space Technology by Andrej Vujkovac, IFMSA Vice-President for Capacity Building This session was intended to provide a space to the participants to hold any kind of discussion they wanted. It was held in the plenary room with provided tables and markers for anyone who needed them. Individuals or groups could “register” any topic as well as join any discussion. In the end we had 3 discussions going on, one was for SCORE, one on migrants and a third one on blood donation campaign. Altogether there were approximately 20 people present at the open space technology. This number is a bit under the expectations, which might be due to the fact that it was one at the same time as the Networking session, where more Officials were present. A recommendation for the future would be to either have the open space separately or to not have it at all.

Plenary by Dominic Schmid, IFMSA Vice-President for Activities The plenaries of the March Meeting 2017 will stay in IFMSA’s memory as the most efficient ones in recent IFMSA history. Although 24 Bylaws Change Proposals and 11 Policies with countless amendments were debated, no plenary finished after 22.30. This was the result of extensive planning, both by the plenary team, headed by Chairperson Dr. Caline Mattar and the Executive Board.

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The third plenary say the discussion of Bylaws Change Proposals. Next to administrative changes to the Bylaws, an important reform of the Travel Assistance Fund was passed and a new contract for hosts of Regional Meetings was added to the Bylaws. National Member Organizations were more critical towards other proposals, namely Proposals to increase Gender Representativity, to simply the Sponsorship Acquirement Process and to allow nonmedical students to serve in the TO. NMOs accepted two new Candidature members in their midst; the membership status of five NMOs was updated to full membership. All Policies that were deemed valid were passed by the plenary. This General Assembly was to first to follow the new system for Policy adoption.

The Liaison Officers will evaluate the process and strife to improve it for the next General Assemblies. Finally, six members of the IFMSA Executive Board 2017/18 were elected into office.

Front row, from left to right Noemie Fischer, Returning Officer, Switzerland Majo Cisneros Caceres, Vice-Chairperson, Ecuador Dr. Caline Mattar, Chairperson, Lebanon Kelly Maertens, Secretary, Belgium Victor Leal Garcia, Plenary Support Person to Executive Board, Brazil Back row, from left to right William Enlow, Secretary Quebec

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Po-Chin Li, Secretary Assistant, Taiwan Rasmus Bakken, Constitutional Credential Committee member, Norway Hsu-Li Huang, Constitutional Credential Committee member, Taiwan Marie Cadoret, Constitutional Credential Committee member, France Manuel Mendive, Constitutional Credential Committee member, Uruguay Yazeed Khrais, Constitutional Credential Committee member, Jordan Đorđe Radisavčević, Returning Officer, Serbia

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The General Assembly in Numbers Introduction An evaluation form was sent to all participants of March Meeting 2017 on 29 th March 2017.

Participants had until 12th April 2017. Filling out the form was a prerequisite to receive certification of attendance. All participants had to fill out the evaluation of logistics and the agenda. Afterwards, participants were redirected according to there status (general delegates, IFMSA Officials, Program Coordinators, Externals, Alumni) and according to their sessions (Standing Committees/NMO Management/Presidents’ Session, as well as Regional Sessions).

This chapter shows the evaluation of logistics and the agenda. Data from the evaluation of specific sessions can be found throughout the report.

Logistics Evaluation MM2017 Logistics Evaluation 0.7 0.6 0.5 0.4 0.3 0.2 0.1 0 Prior Transportation Registration Information

Visa Facilitation

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Accomodation

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Very Satisfied

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Non Applicable

Comments: • Generally, the evaluation shows that the Organizing Committee has done excellent work. Participants were mostly “very satisfied” or “satisfied”.

• Visa facilitation was only relevant for a small number of participants, which is why a lot of respondents indicated “Non Applicable”.

• Participants were particularly satisfied with the accommodation, the venue and the boarding.

• Participants noted that they were aware of the selection of sponsors for the General Assembly, and raised questions on how the process is conducted. They questioned the ample space provided to sponsors during opening an closing ceremony, without a mechanism in place that ensures sponsors are in line with IFMSA values.

• A lot of participants noted that the plenary hall was too small, and that a bigger screen should have been provided. Some of them had to stand during opening and closing ceremony.

• Some participants noted that the social program did not provide a lot of variation.

Participants suggested trips into Budva or other social activities.

• While transportation on arrival day was praised, participants noted the lack of organization and lacking buses on departure day. Some participants noted that it was uncomfortable to wait during registration.

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Some participants noted difficulties in receiving vegetarian and vegan food. In general, it was noted that food was very similar from day to day. The wait for food was sometimes quite long, which led to stress among participants. Some participants advised to have coffee breaks, however this was never promised by the OC. Some participants noted the absence of water during sessions. It has to be noted though that tap water was drinkable and readily available.

Some SCORP participants were not satisfied with their session room, as it was an open setting room.

More information should be passed on directly form IFMSA to participants, as all emails are available.

Some participants noted the insufficient Wifi connection. However, compared to past GAs, Wifi connection seems to have been better than average.

Some participants noted the high rejection rate of Visas.

Agenda Evaluation Agenda 0.6

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Dissatisfied

Time Management Neutral

Satisfied

Very Satisfied

Comments: • Participants were mostly “satisfied” or “very satisfied” with the agenda and time management.

• Some participants were not able to attend all sessions of interest to them, due to overlapping sessions. Specifically, it was mentioned to not have Rex Crossley Awards and Activities Fair in parallel to theme events, and not to have EB debate in parallel to training sessions.

• However, a lot of participants also noted they appreciated the increased time for resting. Particularly, commencing the day at 9 am was much appreciated. Some participants still though the time for breaks could be increased.

• Participants noted they should have been informed about the agenda well ahead of the GA. • The facilitation of plenary sessions by the plenary chair was much appreciated.