March Meeting 2018 Follow up report

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A message from the IFMSA Executive Board

Dear readers, It is our pleasure to present to you the report from March Meeting 2018.

Looking back, we cannot be more proud of what IFMSA has done so far and the direction we are going towards. March Meeting was for all of us an unforgettable experience, and we hope the same applies to you. The sole feeling of understanding that the world has come together in Egypt, trying to learn, teach and make a difference in the area of global health and youth involvement is something that will resonate with us forever.

We tried to do our best regarding your enagagement, preparations and participation, ensuring an equal space for everyone’s voice and to make you feel welcomed and appreciated – something that IFMSA has been doing for the past 67 years.

Without the help of the OC, the volunteers and all of you, we couldn’t have called this event a success, but we feel lucky to have you all by our side, insipiring us to move forward and to lead our Federation in the best way possible.

So this is actually thank you directed to you – for being our inspiration and motivation, for challenging us to do our best and for being the true force in the IFMSA. We hope you will enjoy reading the report, see you soon in Montreal!

With love Amela, Batool, Carlos, Frida, Hana and Satria Executive Board 2017/18

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March Meeting 2018 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 Hurghada Youth Call to Action on Universal Health Coverage First time pre and post knowledge evaluation done, with amazing results

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IFMSA Team of Officials 2017/18

From left to right Hana Lučev, Vice-President for Activities, Croatia Amela Hamidović, Vice-President for Finances, Serbia Batool Ahmad Ali Al-Wahdani, Vice-President for External Affairs, Jordan Birk Bähnemann, Regional Director for Europe, Bulgaria Salma Ben Letaifa, Regional Director for the Eastern Mediterranean Region, Tunisia Ivan Fabrizzio Canaval Diaz, Regional Director Americas, Peru Alaa Ibrahim Aboalgasim Alhai, Regional Director for Africa, Sudan Tommaso Pomerani, Standing Committee on Professional Exchange Director, Italy Carlos Andres Acosta Casas, President, Brazil Mokshada Sharma, Regional Director for AsiaPacific, India Frida Maria Vizcaino Rios, Vice-President for Capacity Building, Mexico Katherine Wang, Standing Committee on Research Exchange Director, Norway Jonne Juntura, Liaison Officer to Student Organizations, Finland Ugonna Nwankpa, Standing Committee on Human Rights and Peace Director, Malta

Anshruta Raodeo, Standing Committee on Sexual and Reproductive Health incl. HIV/AIDS Director, India Firas Yassine, Supervising Council, Lebanon Nishwa Azeem, Standing Committee on Public Health Director, Pakistan Amine Lofti, Liaison Officer to the World Health Organization (WHO), Morocco Aikaterini Dima, Liaision Officer for Medical Education issues, Greece Marian Sedlak, Liaison Officer to Human Rights and Peace issues, Slovakia Sanne de Wit, Liaison Officer for Public Health issues, Tunisia Satria Nur Sya’ban, Vice-President for Members, Indonesia Missing Carles Pericas Escale, Liaison Officer for Sexual and Reproductive Health issues incl. HIV/AIDS, Spain-Catalonia Pablo Estrella Porter, Standing Committee on Medical Education Director, Ecuador Stijntje Dijk, Supervising Council, The Netherlands Koen Demaegd, Supervising Council Member, Belgium

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March Meeting 2018 Organizing Committee

From left to right: Mohamed Nady, Treasurer Assistant Mahmoud Masoud, Vice Head of OC Moemen M. Nader, Head of OC Muhammad Ibrahim, Video Editor Mohamed Meshref, Tresurer Amro Aglan, Extended OC Sohaila Khaled, Registration Coordinator Muhammed Yasser, Extended OC Ahmed Megahed, Logistics Coordinator Khaled Hegazy, Viza Team Muhammad El-Gohary, Publications & Marketing Coordinator Omnia El Omrani, Social Program Coordinator Sara Nasr, Extended OC Moha Hammad, Extended OC Noha Ammar, Extended OC

Eman Hassan, Theme Event Coordinator Khadiga Elshamarka, Extended OC Yara Hisham, Extended OC Sohila Khaled, Extended OC Ali Mo’men, Extended OC Mai Haggag, Fundraising Co-Coordinator Amr Reyad, Extended OC Ahmed Khaled, Fundraising Co-Coordinator Mustafa El Yamani, PostGA & Transportation CoCoordinator Majid Shangab, Registration Team Mahmoud Elfeky, PostGA & Transportation CoCoordinator Hassan El-Sherbiny, Extended OC Khaled Azab, Visa Team Ahmed Ghonimy, Extended OC

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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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The Road Towards Universal Health Coverage; Female Genital Cutting Side Event; Action towards Global epidemics & outbreaks

6. Activities

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Rex Crossley Awards, Activities Fair

7. Exchanges Fair

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8. Joint Sessions

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9. Programs Streams

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10. Miscellaneous Sessions

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Policy Discussions, Networking, Plenary

11. The General Assembly in Numbers

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Pre-General Assembly Workshops Women’s Reproductive Health and Access to Safe Abortion

17 Participants

13 Countries

Background and goals: To provide training to current and future health professionals on Facilitators Anshruta Raodeo maternal health SCORA Director ● To work with trainers to discuss current barriers to access maternal health, including safe abortions Gabriela Cipriano SCORA RA Americas ● To educate future healthcare professionals on the current barriers to access, roles medical students can play and the current situation Iheb Jemel of unsafe abortion worldwide, and locally SCORA RA for EMR ● To equip future healthcare professionals with the tools to address External inequities in the provision of health services as they relate to Cecilia Espinoza maternal health, and to also provide these future healthcare IPAS professionals the needed knowledge to carry out the appropriate clinical work in these fields ● To enable participants to learn the skills to facilitate peer education training on maternal health in their home country ● To provide participants with the tools and follow-up available to work on advocacy with the support of the SCORA International Team and Ipas.

Outcomes - All of the objectives were achieved - Materials were shared with participants - IPAS report will be made for enrolment by end of April

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Photo: Women’s Reproductive Health and Access to Safe Abortion workshop

Photo: Training New Trainers workshop

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Training New Trainers Participants

Background and goals: Our aim was to provide the trainers with soft and hard skills necessary to prepare relevant training session and workshops and conduct them with high quality. We covered all the basic skills and went in more detail explaining the 4MAT and KOLB cycles and the different types of learners. We aimed to help participants and enable them to help others in discovering and being loser to the best version of themselves.

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Facilitators Saad Chaibi IFMSA Morocco

Marika Dedinova IFMSA CZ

Leen Makki VPCB Training Assistant

Outcomes: We improved the leadership, facilitation and presentation skills of the participants, increased the knowledge and skills for training preparation and training delivery, and worked on insuring the impact of a training session. The participants already started facilitating sessions in their NMOs, we are following up with them closely to make sure they are delivering impact-full sessions.

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Advanced Medical Education Training Participants

Background and goals: Goals: Enable participants to 1. Play an active role in education processes 2. Make informed decisions as partners in the educational processes.

3. Represent their organization towards faculties and national organizations.

4. Pass on their knowledge in Medical Education.

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Facilitators Maroune Amzil SCOME RA EMR

Catarina Pais Rodrigues SCOME RA Europe

Ximena Paredes Gonzรกlez SCOME RA Americas

Linah Mohamed Hassanein SCOME DA

Katerina Dima Outcomes: LME 7 motivated and we'll oriented on Medical Education individuals.

Each of them have a clear plan for projects they will apply in their NMOs. The follow up will be through assigning one of the facilitators to each participant to follow up on the project and how is it being applied.

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International Training on Disaster Medicine Participants

Background and goals: - Introduction to Disaster Medicine - Pre Hospital disaster management - Hospital Disaster management - Medical triage - Psychological first aid - Learning by practicing on real life scenarios - Ethics in disaster medicine

15 Countries

Facilitators Ines Moued IFMSA-Sweden

Mohammed Yasser IFMSA-Egypt

Meskerem Kebede EMSA Ethiopia

Outcomes: We did a pre-training written quiz with 20 relevant questions that they had to answer in max 30 minutes in order to evaluate their pre-existing knowledge on this subject. At the end of the training they did the same test again. We did this in order to evaluate how much knowledge they gained during the training.

All sessions touched on the questions we had so they were supposed to know the majority of the answers.

Photo: International Training on Disaster Medicine workshop

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IFMSA Global Health Advocates Participants

13 Countries

Background and goals: Facilitators Ensure the understanding of The Global External Focus Areas and Katerina Dima LME how IFMSA external representation is directed by these areas.

Discuss key cross-cutting issues of global health in relation to The Amine Lotfi Global External Focus Areas.

LWHO Provide an understanding of the UN system and the role that Marian Sedlak member states and other actors, including the IFMSA, has within it.

LRP Provide participants with in-depth knowledge about the 2030 Batool Wahdani Agenda for Sustainable Development including the Sustainable VPE Development Goals, and how IFMSA GEFAs can contribute to the SDGs. Sanne de Wit LPH Build capacity to implement, promote and fulfil IFMSA policy documents related to the Global External Focus Areas in all events Jonne Jontura and conferences on the regional and international levels.

LOSO Learn about different tools and techniques in External Frederike Booke Representation and develop spokesperson skills to enable SCORA RA for Europe participants to speak up and actively engage in events.

Alicia Fengler Enable the participants to play an active role in representing their UN TF Coordinator NMOs and IFMSA in any external representation opportunities.

Enable the participants to develop global, national and local initiatives relevant to the Global External Focus Areas that contributes to the implementation of the 2030 agenda.

Outcomes: Each of the participant worked on its own plan of action on a local, national, regional or international basis during the preGA. A whatsapp group and facebook group werereated where the materials of the workshops, further materials and also relevant calls will be shared.

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Photo: IFMSA Global Health Advocates workshop

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Capacity Building Issues Participants

Background and goals: The workshop was based on the general concept of Capacity building and it’s applications. And the goals of the workshop was to teach the participants the meaning of Capacity Building and its different aspects and that it’s not just training sessions and TNTs.

5 Countries

Facilitators Khalid Al Sadder IFMSA-Jo

Miguel Moreno AMSB Bulgaria

Linnéa Marschal Outcomes: AMSB Bulgaria Our participants were very impressive and we had multiple group projects utilizing Capacity Building and now we’re in the follow-up period where each of them is supposed to either change something in their NMO through Capacity Building or change the actual process of Capacity Building.

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Financial Management and Administration Participants

5 Countries

Background and goals: The Workshop is tailored to answer the current needs of IFMSA Facilitators National Member Organisations (NMOs) on financial Dimitrios Trompoukis HelMSIC – Greece management knowledge and skills necessary to effectively operate. We have also identified member organisation’s need to Ahmed Taha extend their practical skills on how to properly administer financial IFMSA-Egypt resources. Through this training, the participants are expected to develop and further their skills in financial management that would contribute to ensuring their organisations’ sustainability.

Trainings will focus to build capacity on the main principles of financial management, methods to ensure financial transparency of the organisation, and how to strategically align administrative work with the organisational every day work. Furthermore, the participants will be guided through practical sessions to develop an organisational budget, to set internal financial procedures that are essential for efficient budget implementation, and to work over the financial reporting. It will also include sessions on fundraising and the role of financial management in the organisational sustainability.

Goals: Improve understanding of the main principles of financial management for NGOs. Enhance practical skills of day-to-day management of finances. Stimulate financial operations and align them with organisational development. Develop expertise on finances, both nationally and internationally.

Clear Objectives: Introduce tools and provide knowledge on finance and accounting basic operations, budgeting, internal control systems and financial reporting. Provide skills for developing a financial strategy, implementing within financial operations and alignment toward sustainable development.

Improve capacity on fundraising strategies, management of funds and reporting towards donors.

Link financial management with organisational development and project management, as an important keystone. Familiarize with IFMSA finances and administration procedures. Participants are able to plan further steps in terms of financial management and apply in their NMOs and/or projects.

Outcomes: All lot of materials, theories, links and useful tools will be sent to all participants within 2 weeks after the end of the workshop. Participants will also be assigned specific buddies according to their needs and facilitators expertise, that will follow up on their action plans and have advisory role (defined by participants) while implementing them back home.

The outcomes of the workshop will be monitored by: Pre- and post- evaluation surveys Evaluation results during each day's final session

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Intercultural interactions in IFMSA Participants

Background and goals: Understand what is the culture, importance of cultural interactions, possible problems and barriers of intercultural communication.

Be able to solve the problems of intercultural interactions and enhance its efficiency.

Become a good team member and leader both for unicultural and multicultural groups.

5 Countries

Facilitators Buse Ertabaklar TurkMSIC Turkey

Kaan Mert Güven TurkMSIC Turkey

Outcomes: The main goal is helping the participants becoma a good team member and leader in multicultural working groups and organization such as IFMSA. We will follow our participants over 6 months and observe their works within multicultural group. Give them feedback and recieve feedbacks from them.

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Presidents‘ PreGA Participants

Background and goals: The PreGA workshop will offer an ideal forum for the participants to come together with their peers to share their experience and insights, acquire new skills and develop novel ideas and approaches.

Two Streams: 1) Organizational Development 2) Skills an NMO President needs

12 Countries

Facilitators Georg Schwarzl Financial Development Assistant Europe

Mohamed Falfoul FNESS – Senegal

Karim M. Abuzied IFMSA – Egypt

Suzanne Pees

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

IFMSA - the Netherlands

Satria Nur Syaban IFMSA Vice President for Members

Salma Ben Letaifa IFMSA Regional Director for the EMR

Clear Objectives: Participants have developed their knowledge Birk Bähnemann and skills in topics as motivation of members, leadership, IFMSA Regional Director for Europe recruitment and strategic planning (to be decided based on a Ivan Fabrizzio Canaval Diaz IFMSA survey shared prior to the PreGA). Participants are confident Regional Director for the Americas about the opportunities IFMSA provide to NMOs and how to engage and manage them in their NMOs. Participants have learned tools and theories related to organizational development, which can be used in their NMOs

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Participants have done a full analysis of their NMOs, including strengths and weaknesses and decided on which areas should be improved. Participants have developed a plan for future interventions to develop their own NMO Creation of NMO partnerships that have similar organizational challenges Outcomes: Organizational Development Series: Participants are walked through the entire spectrum of organizational development skills. They have also been given the skills they need to apply the entire process in their own NMO. Stream 2: Skills an NMO President Needs: the participants has been given the hard skills they requested based on a pre-event survey. Management, External Representation, Plenary Procedures, etc.

Follow-up: The planned follow-up process so far is to have an online meeting with all the participants to review how they have implemented the skills they have learned. We may also be planning to pair the NMOs with each other in smaller groups / pairs to encourage mutual capacity building and drive to develop their organizations even further (not confirmed)

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Public Health Leadership Training Participants

Background and goals: Solutions can only be reached by strong leaders wielding appropriate knowledge.

11 Countries

Facilitators Utku Arslan TurkMSIC Turkey

Katja Cic

We as medical students represent current and future health leaders and as such we represent a perfect 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. To initiate the change, we must be equipped with the right tools and knowledge to successfully lead our fellow medical students, our communities and the general population.

General Assistant SCOPH

Saniya Sahasrabudhe VPA Program Support Assistant

Tarek Ezzine Development Assistant SCOPH

Jack Yang FMS Taiwan

The goal of the workshop was to train IFMSA members to actively Nishwa Azeem SCOPH D take leadership roles within the field of Public Health. Moreover, it was to train participants in specific fields closely related to IFMSA Jonne Juntura and Public Health work, such as specifics on activity management.

LOSO In addition, the workshop aimed to aid the participants build knowledge about themes that were priorities to their Regions so they would be able to apply what they have learned not only on a ‘theoretical’, but also on a practical, local level.

Additionally new ideas need to emerge to tackle conventional Public Health problems like AMR, Hackathon will provide a chance for students to be creative and come up with implementable solutions for Antimicrobial Resistance.

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Outcomes: The PHLT on Hack4AMR gave the participants knowledge on the three main pillars leadership-all participants identifies with their leadership styles and worked in a dynamic team for 3 days, activity management-participants learnt basic and advanced components on activity management and practiced them, lastly Public Health Basics with a focus on AMR. Mentorship sessions were conducted with mentors from ReAct and John Hopkins University.

Participants were also given personal coaching and team coaching after everyday and there was a markable transition seen. All 4 teams presented their final projects on AMR and will be followed up upon, in terms of development and implementation. An evaluation form will also be sent after 6 months to see the utility of the workshop and get feedback.

Photo: Public Health Leadership Training workshop

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Training New Exchange Trainers Participants

Background and goals: The IFMSA exchange programs are key promoters of intercultural understanding and cooperation amongst medical students and health professionals. To ensure they are run in the best way possible, the Professional and Research Exchange Training (PRET) was developed to enable exchange officers to improve their knowledge and develop their exchange programs. To ensure qualified trainers for these PRETs, the TNET workshop was created.

TNET aims to create high-quality and well-knowledged Exchange Trainers who will train others in exchange management and exchange-related topics.

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Facilitators Erwin Barboza-Molinas SCORE RA for the Americas

Wing Cheung SCORE RA for Europe

Ă…shild Nordbotten NMSA Norway

Alia Ghazzawi AMSA Austria

Goals of TNET: 1. To let participants take an active role in improving the local and national exchange programs.

2. To enable better management of exchange programs in all aspects including academic quality and implementing new initiatives.

3. To prepare participants to pass on their knowledge as Exchange Trainers, teaching skills on exchange management, personal development and team management.

4. To enable the participants to represent their organization towards faculties and institutions, providing them with the skills for development of international exchange possibilities, including student leadership and external representation.

5. To generate more experienced and knowledgeable Trainers for PRETs, leading to higher quality trainings and outcomes better aligned with the needs of the Standing Committees.

Outcomes: This workshop has produced 15 new Exchange Trainers, distributed through all 5 regions, who are fired up and ready to facilitate exchange trainings and workshops. It has enhanced their knowledge, giving them tools to continue developing their NMOs’ exchange programs. In the next months, we will follow up as they become facilitators for PRETs, TNETs, and other Exchange-related workshops, and even as some develop their paths towards the work of the SCOPE and SCORE ITs, as well as in IFMSA, showing the level of leadership, knowledge and commitment to the Federation that the TNET contributes.

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Photo: Training New Exchange Trainers workshop

Photo: Refugees’ Mental Health and Psychosocial Support Workshop

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Refugees‘ Mental Health and Psychosocial Support Participants

10 Countries

Background and goals: Facilitators The latest statistics from UNHCR show that the number of refugees Hatem Alaa Marzouk IFMSA Alumnus - Coordinator of the worldwide is 22.5 million people. Unlike what people may think about Refugees Mental Health Programme Terre des Hommes foundation , Egypt / PSTIC , the bigger hosts of refugees; 30% of this number currently resides implementing partner of UNHCR in the Africa, 26% in the Middle East and North Africa while only 17% is in Europe. Egypt is a host to approximately 200,000 refugees from Mahmoud Abdelazeem IFMSA-Egypt different countries; including Syria, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Yemen and Iraq.

Ayesha Irfan Medical doctors are in the heart of humanitarian crisis worldwide, IFMSA Mental Health Program Coordinator offering a helping hand and the needed relief to support affected Adham Osama populations.

IFMSA-Egypt IFMSA has always demonstrated relentless efforts to provide medical students with invaluable experience regarding different global health issues. Among its primary interests are Emergency and Humanitarian Action, Mental Health and Gender based violence.

With the March meeting being to Egypt in 2018, it is a golden opportunity for medical students to have a first hand experience to a prominent global health challenges facing refugees. This is due to Egypt being an important hub for a number of UN agencies and international NGOs working hand in hand to provide the needed mental healthcare services to refugees and asylum seekers in Egypt and the whole region.

Outcomes: 1. Participants understand the mental health and psychosocial challenges in refugees and asylum seekers’ populations.

2. Participants received a primary introduction on Interagency Standing Committee Guidelines on Mental Health& Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) 3. Participants met experts working in international NGOs in Mental Health care services and psychosocial support for refugees in the region 4. Creating a positive attitude and interest towards refugees and asylum seekers mental health rights and building their knowledge and motivation for possible future roles in the field.

5. Engaging participants in global participative exercises to practice the learned skills as a follow up on the workshop.

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Human Rights for Medical Practitioners Participants

8 Countries

Background and goals: Facilitators As future physicians, we need tools and skills to integrate human Hana Awil rights and medical ethics in clinical settings, to take on health Anna-Theresia Ekman Rujvee Patel leadership roles locally and globally and to create a positive change.

Sara Klingebiel This is why we have developed this workshop, aiming to strengthen Hanna Jerndal future physicians’ commitment towards Human Rights, increasing understanding of its intertwined nature with Medical Ethics, and to build capacity among students from a clinical perspective.

The objectives include increasing participants' understanding of and ability to identity the existence of inequality and discrimination within as well as outside of health care settings, as well as the impact it has on the health outcomes of the affected populations. As well as equipping participants with knowledge, skills and values necessary to improve the standard of health for future patients, within healthcare settings through the development of advocacy and project management skills, as well as the ability to inspire and involve further medical students within their local community.

Each session addresses a specific issue that can occur in clinical settings. Variety of teaching techniques are used to achieve the most efficient and innovative approach towards ethics and human rights in healthcare. We used interactive sessions, case studies, theatre-based techniques, simulations, role-play, debate, group discussion, etc.

Outcomes: - Increased understanding of human rights and medical ethics in clinical settings - Strategic plans by participants to take action nationally - Network of participants, to continue to share experiences and resources - Share resources and project ideas, encourage and support participants to start their own activities locally through awareness raising, peer education, advocacy and action

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Morning Sessions

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Standing Committee on Medical Education (SCOME) Participants

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Topics discussed: During the first day of the SCOME Sessions during MM18 in Facilitators Hurghada, Egypt, the SCOME Sessions Team created an Pablo Estrella SCOME Director enjoyable environment for all the participants, through ice breaking and team building games, in order to facilitate the exchanges of Katerina Dima LME ideas and expression of opinions for all attendees. Then 2 parallel sessions followed, first aimed to introduce participants to the Matteo Cavagnacchi importance of a Meaningful Student Representation and its impact General Assistant on our medical education systems. Simultaneously, the other half Lina Hassanin of participants discussed the different strategies in order to Developmental assistant contribute to their curricula through Filing a Learner’s Gap, from the needs assessment to an educational implementation within our Alaa Abu Sufyan RA Africa universities. Day One was closed by the last session about Global Health Education, to have an overview of the openness of our Catarina Pais Rodrigues RA Europe educational systems on the global health issues and discuss the its impact on our educational systems.

Ximena Paredes The second day had a Medical Education External Representation RA Americas focus, as we discussed our role as medical students and Marouane Amzil stakeholders in our Healthcare Systems regarding Human RA EMR Resources of Health issues. Then the following session presented the external work of IFMSA in Medical Education through its Mohamed Sayed Badry IFMSA-Egypt GEFAs, which lead to another session about Social Accountability where we had as a guest form THEnet, Bjorg Palsdottir, to discuss Anelia Zasheva our role in optimizing our education toward the values of Social Bulgaria AMSB Accountability.

Mindaugas Galvosas Day 3 participants were able to provide their input to developing the Lithuania LiMSA SCOME Strategic Planning through an ideas cafĂŠ.

Jiarui Xiao Day 4 participants attended the SCOME Plenary to amend and IFMSA-China adopt both of the SCOME Regulations and TMET Regulations.

The last day of the SCOME Sessions, a Team Management and Externals Bjorg Palsdottir Motivation session helped participants to understand a better CEO of Training for Health Equity Network strategy to strengthen their teams and provide the best outcome of (THEnet) their Plan of Actions. Then they actively participated in presenting their Posters about their work in SCOME on a national level, what are the main achievements and struggles, as this session has allowed them to exchange ideas on how to improve their work and overcome their struggles. A SCOME Open Space was given, where participants could join a discussion space of, SCOME Strategic Plan, Basic Surgical Skills SWG, AMET framework or NOMEs time. Ended the day with a closing and wrap up Session.

Outcomes:

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Day 1: participants were initiated to SCOME and its different pillars and focus areas of work. The sessions did provide participants with the different tools in order to be meaningfully involved within their medical education systems, as 2 examples of its implementation regarding developing the curricula to fill a learner’s gap. As well as tools to make the medical educational system more open to the global health issues.

Day 2: participants were aware of their role as a medical education stakeholder and their important role in the different healthcare matters, from Human Resources of Health to IFMSA Medical Education GEFAs. Key concepts of the GEFAs and external SCOME working areas were presented.

Day 3: participants provided their input of the draft outline of the new SCOME Strategic Plan 2018/2021.

That input will be included in the development of it.

Day 4: SCOME representatives from 43 NMOs participated in the SCOME plenary, discussed, voted and adopted the amendments to the SCOME Regulations and the TMET Regulations. A SCOME IT mandate was voted upon to open a TMET SWG. Day 5: participants shared, through a poster presentation their work in SCOME on a national level and collect input from their peers in order to optimize their annual working plans. The winner of the poster presentation was IFMSA NL. From the SCOME Open Space, input was collected for some working areas of SCOME, as well as NOMEs had the chance to share their ideas, concerns and meet each other for future collaborations.

Photo: SCOME Sessions

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Standing Committee on Professional Exchanges (SCOPE)

159 Participants

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Topics discussed: The sessions followed very different formats during the 5 days, and Facilitators included parallel sessions for different levels of experience in Tommaso Pomerani SCOPE Director SCOPE. Participants had some time during day 1 to get to know each other Iris Blom SCOPE General Assistant and then either receive updates on the work of the SCOPE IT and the database, or be introduced to SCOPE and how to activate it.

Paula Reges A good part of the SCOPE sessions was structured as moments for SCOPE Development Assistant sharing and working together. During the Sharing is Caring session, Antonia Luchacha Khabetsa SCOPE participants shared their experiences and problems about some Regional Assistant for Africa very common issues concerning SCOPE exchanges, while during the SCOPE input cafĂŠ they were requested to give input on specific Larry Leiva SCOPE Regional Assistant for the Americas projects the SCOPE IT is working on (or will work on in the second part of the term), related to the SCOPE Annual Working Plan.

Karan Parikh SCOPE Regional Assistant for Asia-Pacific Finally, during the Small Working Group time, participants were divided in groups and worked on a specific topic (either a new Imane Squalli idea/project for SCOPE or a problem to solve), with the goal to SCOPE Regional Assistant for the EMR produce some recommendations for the future, or lay the Tanya Zebrova groundwork for the development of the project/idea.

SCOPE Regional Assistant for Europe The remaining part of the SCOPE sessions was focused on Ă…shild Nordbotten capacity building on exchanges, therefore a series of parallel NMSA Norway training have been organised, tailored to different interests and different levels of experience (and most of them together with Gemma Whyatt Students for Global Health UK SCORE). On day 1, the topics for the parallel trainings (4) were: Advocacy and Recognition, Financial Management in Exchanges, Omar Nasr IFMSA Egypt Academic Quality, How to improve exchanges using EFs. On day 2, a parallel training was delivered on How to organise PDT, UAT Kanchana Bali and other Educational Activities. On day 5, the topics of the parallel NMSS Nepal trainings (3) were: Stress resilience and Time Management, Global Health in SCOPE, Case studies on different problems in exchanges. Finally, on day 4 and day 5, TNET trainees were given the opportunity to deliver their graduation training and become exchange trainers.

Finally, a couple of sessions have been dedicated to the SCOPE initiatives and the IFMSA programs (mainly informative sessions), as well as to voting on the proposed changes to the SCOPE Regulations.

Outcomes: Participants were very interested in the sessions and the topics proposed and gave good feedback. All the outcomes of the Sharing is Caring session will be published on the SCOPE and NEO servers to make sure exchange officers can read them and bring something back to their NMOs. Each Small Working Group (SWG) has also produced specific outcomes that are going to be shared with the SCOPE and NEO server. The SCOPE IT will evaluate all the outcomes and propose a concrete way forward for each project. Some of the SWGs will continue their work also in the second part of the term.

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As regards the SCOPE Input CafĂŠ, the SCOPE IT is already working on the projects proposed for the session, and will integrate the input from the members in the work.

For the session on the SCOPE initiative, a call for interested NMOs has been launched and a group of selected NMOs will have the opportunity to join the test phase of the initiatives.

Finally, for the session on SCOPE and IFMSA programs, NMOs were introduced to the whole structure of the IFMSA programs. Additional materials and support will be provided in the upcoming months with the goal to increase the number of educational activities enrolled in the Programs.

Photo: SCOPE Sessions

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Standing Committee on Public Health (SCOPH)

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Topics discussed: • SCOPH Information/involvement Sessions were a group of sessions, including the introduction session to SCOPH and Public Health for beginners which was parallel to Advanced sessions, where we talked about the driving forces of SCOPH IT AWP (SCOPH Strategy, Regional Priorities, POA of TO, Forum of Reps. and GEFAs).

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Facilitators Nishwa Azeem SCOPH D

Sanne De Witt LPH

Maciej Bugajskii RA Europe

We had SCOPH Talks which are our version of Ted Talks, Sheng Alex 5 speakers gave motivational speeches, with new ideas RA Asia Pacific on Pubic Health from their diverse experiences.

Omnia El Omrani Mental Health and Mental Health Advanced sessions RA EMR covered the basics of Mental Health, Stigmas and Misconceptions. Th Advanced Mental Health session Katja Cic General Assistant included Emotional Intelligence influences of periods of literature and history (Renaissance, Romanticism etc.) on Tarek Ezzine Development Assistant our thinking.

Global Epidemic Simulation was a simulation on a Sarah Suleiman epidemic where we had a WHO, IMF, WB and different MMSA Malta countries, which were given live statistics according to Lemniz Gonzalez which they had to come up with strategies for their IFMSA Panamá countries accordingly.

Dominique Vervoort UHC (Universal Health Coverage) sessions talked about BeMSA Belgium the status quo and components of UHC and the required steps International community and medical students Ghaidaa Sessions LeMSIC Lebanon should take.

AMR (Antimicrobial Resistance) session not only covered Utku Arslan TurkMISC Turkey the basics of AMR and its impact but lead on to a detailed session on the important stakeholders globally, important declarations and guide of advocacy.

Forum of Representation was a way of getting direct input from the NPOs and Members, about what challenges they faced, their involvement and ideas for SCOPH to work on.

Policy Document 101 was an introduction to what PD are, how to compose them and their practice in IFMSA. SCOPH Fair had more than 40 activities presented by SCOPHeros where the participants were the judges according to the criteria discussed and components of activity learnt. Gifts were given to the winners.

Health in all Policies-Advocacy explained the basics of the social determinants of health and health inequalities. HiAP and GEFAs was also shared in the session.

SWGs on Activities had the aim to identify discuss and come up with the solutions to difficulties participants have in activities in their NMO.

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Ageing talked about what ageing and ageism is, what is the status quo and what we as medical students can do about it.

Research in Public Health talked about the purpose of research in the context of Public Health.

To help participants learn, comprehend, and practice the basics of scientific research methodology.

Outcomes: • SCOPH Information/involvement Sessions: Participants feel knowledgeable aboutSCOPH and Advanced sessions helped them understand the working plans, work will be done on ideas presented by the SWGs in the advanced sessions.

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Forum of Representation: An in depth analysis of the input given by the NMOs is to be conducted and plans to solve the challenges faced in their NMOs and regarding involvement.

Use ideas for the SCOPH IT work.

SCOPH Talks: participants gained motivation and were free to approach speakers to talk in detail after.

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Mental Health and Mental Health Advanced: Participants learnt about a newer perspective on Mental Health with Emotional Quotient and Psychotherapy.

Global Epidemic Simulation: participants learnt about the conventional stakeholders involved and actions taken in case of a global epidemic.

UHC (Universal Health Coverage): Participants leant the problem statement and had a mapped as to possibilities of steps they can take.

AMR (Antimicrobial Resistance): Participants learnt about the ReAct toolbox and national AMR Plans countries have.

Policy Document 101: Participants learnt the structure, IFMSA use and practised making policies.

SCOPH Fair: Participants judged the fair strengthening their critical skills and PH Activities were discussed and presented.

SWGs on Activities: Participants had structured discussions and the solutions proposed will be published in the follow up Kit. Ageing; Health in all Policies: Participants felt knowledgeable about HiAP, advocacy and ageing.

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Research in Public Health: A short handbook is prepared by the facilitators to be shared.

NPO Plenary amendments were incorporated in the SCOPH Regulations.

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Photo: SCOPH Sessions

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

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Topics discussed: Through the sessions we attempted to address all SCORA focus Facilitators areas along with address a few skill development topics as well.

Anshruta Raodeo SCORA Director Topics addressed under each focus area are: • Comprehensive sexuality education: Carles Pericas LRA - How to CSE: Gave the basics to participants from countries where no CSE projects have been developed Gabriela Cipriano with facilitators discussing choice CSE methods.

RA Americas - Access to contraception: different types of contraceptive Frederike Booke methods and improving access to them on regional basis RA Europe - Living library: Multiple facilitators facilitated topics to Sohayla Bendaoud restricted participants on masturbation, dysmennorhea, RA Europe circumcision, positive sex approach, chemsex, dyspareunia Iheb Jemel RA EMR - PMS: Debunking myths surrounding the issue and addressing it from a medical perspective Zexian Tang RA Asia Pacific • Maternal health and access to safe abortion: - Fetal alcohol syndrome: discussed impact of maternal George Dabanlis alcoholism and strategies to address them SCORA GA - Pregnancy in refugee state: Lack of SRHR and Egle Janusonyte healthcare facilities in refugee and migrant populations LiMSA-Lithunia - Postpartum depression: An in depth analysis followed by understanding the situation across the globe and effective Laura Lalucat AECS Catalonia means to address the same • Sexuality identity and Gender orientation: External Dr Ahmed Khamis - HIV&LGBTQI+: Past and present situation of HIV and UNAIDS Egypt the present approach and modalities - Blood donation & LGBTQI+: Addressed the ban that many countries impose on SGI individuals upon blood and organ donation and how to bring about a change in perspective.

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HIV and other STIs: - HIV in Egypt and the World: With external Dr Ahmed Khamis GBV: - Pregnancy in refugee state: Lack of SRHR and healthcare facilities in refugee and migrant populations Skills development: - Financial management and fundraising for local activities: a discussion on fundraising and financial management for development of SCORA activities - SCORA Activities fair: an opportunity for NMOs to present their best SCORA activities to each other, develop their presentation skills, inside on another and develop collaborations.

- Advocacy on a local level: Methods to approach partners at local level and translate them into meaningful partnerships

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Outcomes: - Initiation of CSE projects in NMOs that did not address the issue - Interesting debates on less acknowledged issues - Newer methods of facilitation helped with engagement and better participation - Better understanding of global approach towards HIV with questions given by Dr Khamis shared as google form - Inputs from PPD session utilised for campaign development - Engagement of PCs in sessions to encourage program enrolment

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Standing Committee on Research Exchanges (SCORE)

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70 Participants

Topics discussed: For the SCORE Sessions at MM18, we focused on presenting updates about our work and gathering input for ongoing projects, training the participants on important topics outlined in our SCORE AWP, and having moments for sharing experiences. We started each day with a team building activity to facilitate bonding and teamwork.

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Facilitators Kate Wang SCORE-Director

James Janani SCORE GA

Tarek Turk SCORE DA

After the introductions on day 1, we split the participants up for the beginners to receive an introduction to SCORE while the experienced were updated about progress on the SCORE AWP and Strategic Plan as well as the work of the SWG on Research Internship vs Research Project. We continued with an ideas cafe to collect input on new initiatives such as the new SCORE Evaluation Form and the upcoming ExWeek. We ended the sessions with capacity building workshops on different steps of Academic Quality and finances in exchanges.

Erwin Barboza-Molinas SCORE RA for the Americas

Pan Khongthong SCORE RA for Asia-Pacific

Abdelrahman Adly SCORE RA for EMR

Wing Cheung SCORE RA for Europe

On day 2, we voted on SCORE Regulations change proposals with a parallel session on How to implement PETs, UAT and Educational Activities for those not involved in the voting. The SCOREans applying for the SB presented their candidatures and the current SB gave a session explaining their work and common mistakes when filling in Project Forms. Lastly, we split the participants into SWGs and organized a Sharing is caring for those who wanted to share best practices.

Basma Lahmer

Day 3 is our Exchanges Fair! A high-energy day for the NMOs to promote their exchanges.

Simina Ratiu

SCORE SB Member

Chris Gramsch SCORE SB Member

Petr Gavrishchuk SCORE SB Member

Tulio Maia IFMSA-Brazil

FASMR Romania

On day 4, the DA presented their work and we then arranged trainings for the participants to develop their knowledge and skills in Global Health, Outcome-Based Exchanges, Promotion of Research and SCORE, and Communication and Conflict Management.

On day 5, we began with a problem solving session on the beach followed by presentations by 2 NOREs on their national social programs and an introduction to upcoming PRETs around the world. Then it was time for the graduation trainings of our new Exchange Trainers, who delivered sessions on Leadership and Exchange Team Management, How to Organize NGA SCOPE/SCORE Sessions, Motivation and Empowerment of LOs and CPs, Strategic Planning and Impact Assessment, Ethics in Exchanges, and Handover and Continuity in Exchanges. After lunch, we continued our sessions with an update on the Database from our GA, followed by outcomes of the SWGs from day 2. We then wrapped up with the outcomes from the SCORE sessions and an overview of the next 2 months in SCORE.

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Outcomes: Through our SCORE Sessions, we achieved our goals of updating the participants about the progress on the SCORE AWP and Strategic Plan and gathering input for new initiatives, capacity building on important topics outlined in the AWP, and fostering a culture of sharing and collaboration.

Through the daily team building activities, the participants bonded which will facilitate future teamwork.

The input gathered on initiatives will be incorporated into our work in the SCORE IT. Changes were voted into our Regulations to better structure our work, and we invited 1 new SB Member to join us and reselected 1 member for a second term! During the Exchanges Fair, the NMOs promoted their exchanges and why other NMOs should sign contracts with them. Lastly, and most importantly, through a total of 16 different trainings, the participants were able to choose which areas of SCORE they would like to further develop their skills in order to improve their exchange programs. By having many parallel sessions, we had a wide range of topics for different experience levels ensuring the experienced learnt something new while the beginners built their foundation.

Many of the SWGs will continue their work after MM18 to develop new guidelines or manuals to help our exchange officers with common problems. Our RAs will continue to follow up their NOREs and help them implement changes and initiatives. Finally, the impact of our SCORE Sessions will be visible in the results of our NORE Report, tracking the development of our NMOs’ exchange programs.

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Standing Committee on Human Rights and Peace (SCORP) Participants

40 Countries

Topics discussed: Facilitators On Day 1, we had three topic based sessions including 2 parallel Ugonna Nwankpa SCORP Director sessions.

• Human Rights 101 was aimed at new SCORP members. It Marian Sedlak Liaison Officer for Human Rights and Peace focused on the basics of Human Rights, this included an introduction to the thirty articles of the Universal Declaration of Hiba Ghandour Human Rights and an overview of the changing definitions and SCORP Development Assistant law governing Human Rights from antiquity to the modern age.

Idil Kina Advocacy: a plan for change, was aimed at members more • SCORP General Assistant experienced in the field of Human Rights and Peace and primarily José David Espino Vergara focused on practical, implementable strategies for members to Regional Assistant for the Americas advocate for Human Rights at a national and local level including Rujvee Patel how to reach out to members.

Regional Assistant for the Asia Pacific Our last session of Day 1 was Human Rights Grand Rounds. The • session took the format of a medical “grand round” where we Mennah El Refaey Regional Assistant for the Eastern presented a case as a presenting complaint and asked the Mediterranean Region participants to come with a management plan. The case Jan-Marcus Haus discussed was Attack on Healthcare Workers during conflicts with co-Regional Assistant for Europe real life examples from the conflict in Syria.

Plami Todorova On Day 2 we discussed Gender Based Violence and Stigma and AMSB Bulgaria Discrimination in Healthcare.

• In our Gender Based Violence (GBV) session we focused on Ksenija Aleksic IFMSA-Serbia three main issues: GBV in Healthcare, GBV and Mental Health and GBV in Humanitarian Crises. We also discussed the definition Hafsa Hassan of GBV and who can be a victim of the GBV. MedSIN-Sudan In our Stigma and Discrimination in Healthcare session we split • John Ebong the participants into three groups and gave each group a different NiMSA-Nigeria clinical scenario featuring stigma and discrimination of patients.

Maha Rehman On Day 3, we had a consultation for UNICEF (see outcomes) IFMSA-Pakistan On Day 4, we had parallel sessions on Freedom of Speech and Mental Health Stigma.

Margerita Gritz CyMSA Cyprus • The Freedom of Speech session consisted of evaluating the importance of Freedom of Speech as a Human Rights outlined in Danilo Cid Morales the Universal Declaration of Human Rights while also debating IFMSA Panama where the line is drawn between Freedom of Speech and Hate Speech.

The Mental Health Stigma session focused on the stigma faced by those who have Mental • Health issues and the different levels of stigma and discrimination people face in relation to their mental health.

On Day 5 we had our SCORP Fair and sessions on Migrants’ Access to Healthcare and Modern Slavery.

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throughout the world accessing healthcare, while the Modern Slavery session focused on Child Labour and Migrant Slave Labour and the hidden ways it prevails in some countries.

Outcomes: Outcomes from Human Rights Grand Rounds was to gather collective practical solutions to the two issues discussed for the NMOs/IT who proposed them - Attacks on Healthcare Workers (SCORP IT) - Sexual Reproduction Health and Rights (AMSB-Bulgaria) Following on from the MM18, the SCORP IT is proposing a workshop for the Pre-GA focused on Attacks on Healthcare Workers following the strong response to this topic during the March Meeting.

Outcome from the Draft consultation for UNICEF on Young People in Humanitarian Settings was that the input gathered from participants was collated into a written contribution from IFMSA which has been sent to UNICEF and is currently in its 2nd draft phase.

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NMO Management Participants

Topics discussed: 1. Strategic planning: Beginners: - identify the vision of their organisation - analyse the current situation with help of systems thinking - gather data by making use of TOWS as an analysing tool to formulate the ideas - different methodology to create a timeline, concrete goal setting, intro to creative problem solving as a process Advanced: - Introduction of five different strategic planning structures different to VMOSA. - Identify critical success factors and their relative importance - Identify different strategies - Rate a particular strategy by each success factor - Find the most attractive strategy for their organization

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Facilitators Amela Hamidovic VPF

Amine Lotfi LWHO

Carles Pericas LRA

Katerina Dima LME

Sanne de Wit LPH

Alia Ghazzawi AMSA Austria

2. Team leading Skills: - understanding of own influence on people/groups/teams and team dynamics in general - where do I want to go as a leader of my organisation?

3. Finances: - What is and how to budget, bookkeeping & reporting - What’s a grant?

- How to write a grant application 4. Capacity Building 101: - Capacity building as a term and how it is useful in NMOs - Trainers’ Education, Development and Quality Assurance - Organisational Skills of a Capacity Builder 5. External Representation: - What’s a policy?

- How to write & implement a policy statement - Identify IFMSA Global External Focus Areas - Understanding the relevance of advocacy

Sophia Tolle BVMD-Germany

Frida Vizcaíno VPCB

Outcomes: Each participant analyzed their NMO/LC to detect their current flaws/weakness to decide which model of strategic planning best works with their priorities at the moment and draft a real one to be discussed and followed when they go back home.

The participants were asked for feedback after the workshop and then again at the end of the NMO Management sessions. The liked the way it was presented. However, they wished for more trainings on fundraising and advocacy. This feedback was handed on to the VPCB and will be considered for the organization of the NMO Management sessions at AM 2018.

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President Sessions Participants

Topics discussed: • NMO Report: Reviewing the results and planned changes to the Report as well as providing an input to the process of the NMO Report • Submitted Reports: Discussions on all submitted reports.

Questions and Answers only.

• Secretariat: Outline on the condition happening in the Secretariat at the moment. Explanation of the consultation process result and the proposed plans.

• Policy Documents: Presentation and Overview of the Policies • Strategy Report: Overview of points done and points not done and progress on each one by the Executive Board

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Plenary Procedures: Explanation on the plenary procedures and agenda to be followed in the relevant day's plenary.

SupCo Report: Presentation of findings, additions from prior versions shared, important points to note from the report, including investigations.

Live Streaming Procedures: Explanation of Live Streaming process and how it is going to be complemented with the online voting process in AM. CCC Report: Report of the CCC on validity of applications and the voting rights of NMOs. Membership Review and Follow-Up Reports: Discussions on all Membership Submissions. Questions and Answers only.

Memoranda of Understanding and Financial Commitments: Discussion on all submitted Memoranda of Understanding and planned Financial Commitments.

Bylaw Change Proposals: Discussion about the submitted proposals. Designed to ensure informed decision making on regulatory changes for our Federation.

Financial Reports: Financial Reports of past GAs, quarterly reports of the Federation, incomplete reports from past terms, discussion on current term's report.

Alignment - Programs: Presentation and Small Group Discussions on the planned Alignment Process regarding programs and a space to raise concerns and discuss on the way forward regarding the matter.

Alignment - Global Priorities: Presentation and Small Group Discussions on the planned Alignment Process regarding Global Priorities and a space to raise concerns and discuss on the way forward regarding the matter.

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Facilitators Carlos Acosta President

Hana Lučev Vice President for Activities

Amela Hamidović Vice President for Finances

Batool AlWahdani Vice President for External Affairs

Frida Vizcaino Rios Vice President for Capacity Building

Satria Nur Syaban Vice President for Members

Claudel P Desrosiers AM 18 OC Chairperson

Torsten Vinding Merinder Plenary Chairperson

Federico Mazzola Plenary Vice-Chairperson

Firas Yassine Supervising Council

Stijntje Dijk Supervising Council

Marian Sédlak Liaison Officer for Human Rights and Peace

Amine Lotfi Liaison Officer to the WHO

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

Jonne Juntura Liaison Officer to Student Organizations

Sanne de Wit Liaison Officer for Public Health Issues

Katerina Dima Liaison Officer for Medical Education Issues

Suad S. Šabanović MM17 OC Chairperson

Mahtab Nasrollah Financial Committee Representative

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External Representation: Small Group Discussions on how we can improve the External Representation of the Federation to better support our and our members' interest in the international level.

TO - NMO Buddy Evaluation: Session to evaluate efficacy of the buddy system and provide input to improve the system in the remaining six months.

Capacity Building IOGs: Discussion and presentation of the results of the work on the Capacity Building IOGs. Alumni and Challenges: Presentation on the Alumni involvement process and the planned changes.

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NMO Report: Input received. Will be implemented in the next report.

Submitted Reports: No questions/discussions, the agenda did not yield any outcome.

Secretariat: Questions from the Presidents were answered. Follow-up is in accordance to the plan shared before.

Policy Documents: Presidents were informed of the Policy Discussion. Adopted policy documents will be used by the Federation in future ExReps Strategy Report: Presidents were informed of Strategy Process.

AM 18: Presidents were able to ask questions about procedures proposed by the AM OC. EB will be handling follow-up with OC. Plenary Procedures: Informed of the procedures.

No follow-up planned SupCo Report: A TF was made and a mandate for VPM / RD EMR. Live Streaming Procedures: Presidents were informed of progress and trial run. Further improvement planned for AM 18 by the TF. CCC Report: Validities and rights were shared. No Follow-up planned.

Membership Review and Follow-Up Reports: Presidents raised questions on applying member and provided suggestions. These will be applied for further process.

MoU and Financial Commitments: questions raised and discussions were held. No follow-up planned Bylaw Change Proposals: Presidents understood background and provided suggestion. Followup is implementation of the adopted BCPs. Financial Reports: questions were addressed, and reports were adopted unofficially.

Alignment - Programs / Global Priorities: suggestions received. Will be incorporated to process External Representation: suggestions received. Will be incorporated to further ExReps TO - NMO Buddy Evaluation: suggestions received. Will be incorporated in the next half-term.

Capacity Building IOGs: presidents were informed of the process. SWG will continue working on it Alumni and Challenges: presidents were informed of the process. No follow-up except continuation of work on the field.

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Regional Sessions

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Africa Participants

Topics discussed: 1- Regional Team updates 2- Standing Committee Sessions / Presidents Session 3- IFMSA Programs 4- Regional Strategy 5- ARM2018 Host updates & Questions Outcomes: - follow up with NMOs - gets a clearer idea on their struggles - discussed ARM & AM preparations at NMOs level - sharing of experiences from different side of Africa.

- Timeline of the Region Strategy

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Facilitators Alaa Ibrahim RD Africa

Mohamed Falfoul FENESS-Senegal

Asmau Mosa MedSIN-Sudan

Phillip Shigyi ARM18 - OC representative

Saad Uakkas Program Coordinator on Organ, Marrow and Tissue Donation

Saniya Sahasrabudhe Program Support Assistant

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Americas Participants

Topics discussed: Introduction to the IFMSA Programs Regional External Representation External Representation Priority update GEFAS & Advocacy SWG on Regional collaboration RT updates from RM to MM Regional Meeting 2018 report Regional Meeting 2019 updates Plenary simulation Anual Working Plan/Strategic Plan update Regional Team Meeting

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Facilitators Ivan Fabrizzio Canaval Díaz Regional Director

Manuel Mendive Internal Development Assistant

Iara Porro General Assistant

Larry Leiva Castrejón SCOPE RA

Gabriela De Jesus Cipriano Flores SCORA RA

Ximena Paredes González SCOME RA

Outcomes: Erwin Barboza-Molinas The knowledge increasement sessions will be follow up with the results SCORE RA of the pre/post evaluation survey sent to the participants.

José David Espino Vergara Programs sessions will be follow up with the General Assistant and RAs SCORP RA to increase the number of activities from the region enrolled in the system.

Majko Sedlak LRP To follow up on the national opportunities around SDGs as external representation priority and report them in the AM Paul Moreno To follow up on the external oppotunities of the americas region and the AEMPPI Ecuador internship opportunities and present a concrete report for the AM Alan Patlan Report of the RM18 adopted by the NMO presidents, follow up on the Teaching Medical Skills Program Representative reconciliation process with IFMSA To follow up on the financial/environmental sustainability of the Regional Petra Lovrak NCDs Program Coordinator Meeting To follow up with the internal development assistant and the involvement assitant skills related to planery procedures and increase them until the AM To update the NMO presidents on the report and strategic plan at the AM To send the Regional Team Meeting minutes to the Americas server,

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Asia-Pacific

127 Participants

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Topics discussed: Asia Pacific Regional sessions began with a general update on the Facilitators working within the region (of NMOs and the Regional Team) Mokshada Sharma Regional Director especially highlighting the successes that were achieved in the first 6 months of the term. We then delved deeper into the complexities Tapesh Dutt Nagariya MSAI India and barriers we faced as a region. Topics we stressed upon were External Representation opportunities within the region for Tanvir Hayder members, Regional Capacity building opportunities including Sub General Assistant Regional Trainings and WHO Simulations (nationally and Zeo Sih Siang regionally), Finances and Fundraising within Asia Pacific and it's General Assistant NMOs, Social Media and Information dissipation, New Jack Yang opportunities within the region (IFMSA and external). A detailed Finances Assistant APRM update was given along with the unveiling of the APRM website and opening of early registrations.

Sheng Alex Yang SCOPH RA 4 SWG reports of Asia Pacific IOGs, Strategy, SupCos in Asia Pacific NMOs, manual for EB TOs in Asia Pacific presented. Input Karan Parikh was taken from NMO Presidents about the IOG changes and the SCOPE RA foundation/focus areas of the strategy.

Phor Ranat Khongthong We had a detailed session focussing on the World Health SCORE RA Organization and IFMSA's work with the WHO (World Health Jason Tang Assembly, Regional SEARO and WPRO oppotunities) and a SCORA RA programs related session that delved deeper into the impact Rujvee Patel assessment of our activities and the process of registering them.

SCORP RA In the Asia Pacific Think tank, we had small working groups working on Ageing Populations, Pollution and its effects on health, Social Amine Lotfi Liaison Officer to WHO Accountability of Medical education, Sexual Health Rights (LGBTQI,Abortions,Female genital mutilation,etc), Mental Health, Pablo Estrella Non Communicable Diseases, Technology in medical education, SCOME Director Alcohol and tobacco, Online Pharmacies/Doctor advice, Traditional asian medicine, Anti microbial resistance , Climate Change, Vaccinations, Cancer, Human resources in the healthcare sector.

Standing committee parallel sessions focussed on regional priorities within their standing committees along with discussions pertaining to ageing healthily, ACTION, medical education, advocacy, exchanges week, capacity building.

Outcomes: The sessions had more information dissipation and discussions. Best practices in NMOS, critical barriers, and challenges within the region were discussed and innovative solutions were identified.

Joint priority areas of the region decided for the Strategy and next steps defined.

Participants had a better understanding of the Programs structure, IFMSA-WHO relations and Regional team ventures. APRM promotion Expectations of the NMOs and members for the next 6 months were identified. Asia pacific think tank worked for certain groups and resulted in interest in transnational

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projects over the next 6 months. This will be followed up by regional team members and presented in the APRM 2018 Korea.

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Topics discussed: We started the first regional session with a quick introduction, Facilitators presentation of the NMOs present, presentation of the agenda Salma Ben Letaifa RD EMR and the regional team. The regional assistants then had the chance to present their updates from the past 5 months, and receive questions from the participants.

The EMR14 OC presented the financial report of the meeting, before the presentation of the preliminary report of the EMR14 by the Regional Director.

Participants then split into groups, for the presidents and SC regional sessions time with the respective EMR Team member.

During the second regional session, the Regional Director presented the EMR AWP Updates, received questions and input from members. We then had a presentation on behalf of the EMR15 host that was elected: MedSCO-Oman, where some questions raised were to be followed on by the RD on the server.

We ended the session with an important topic, on the EMR strategy, where a general introduction was made, the progress done until now, the suggested way forward, and SWGs time on different topics related to the strategy.

All participants reunited for a final group picture, in Hurghada-Egypt !

Outcomes: - follow-up on the EMR Team members, especially those who received several questions about their work - finalize the EMR Team report - follow-up on the discussions that occurred during the Presidents’ Session time - continue the follow-up on the AWP - follow-up on the questions raised regarding the next EMR Meeting - follow up on the EMR Strategy

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Europe

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Topics discussed: We addressed the following: Introduced the European Team, Presented EuRegMe18 host and offered time for questions and answers, Capacity building opportunities and CB events, Finance opportunities, updates form regional priorities (AMR and Refugees health) and a workshop for presidents on strategic priorities.

Outcomes: We feel that participants are now more aware of what we are doing in the European Team and what are our main aims. They had the opportunity to speak to us, give us feedback on our work and shape the way forward. We tried to make the workshop on strategy as interactive as possible and got valuable input from the participants how should we go forward on all the strategic priorities. We also had a brief discussion on changing the regional external priorities and collected their input.

Outcome of the External Priorities input: Ehealth SDG AMR Refugees Climate Change Intercultural understanding Access to Medicine Vaccination Mental Health LGBTQ+ Workforce Medical practitious rights UHC NCD

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Facilitators Birk Bähnemann Regional Director for Europe

Anusheh Javaid General Assistant for Europe

Valentina Pugelj General Assistant for Europe

Georg Schwarzl Finances and Development Assistant for Europe

Daniel Memarpour Regional Assistant for Capacity Building for Europe

Catarina Pais Rodrigues SCOME Regional Assistant

Tatiana Zebrova SCOPE Regional Assistant

Maciej Bugajski SCOPH Regional Assistant

Frederike Johanna Booke SCORA Regional Assistant

Sohayla Bendaoud SCORA Regional Assistant

Wingman Cheung SCORE Regional Assistant

Jan Haus SCORP Regional Assistant

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Capacity Building Sessions

Communication Training

17 Participants

Goals and methods: Facilitators Our goal was to identify the concept of effective communication, Yidnekachew Mogessie EMSA Ethiopia provide trainees with communication tolls and give them an over view on how to evaluate their communications.in addition to this, to Dana Shubat understand IFMSA required communications and how they are SMSA-Syria being handled.The methods that we used include lectures, games, energizers, small working groups , open discussions and applying activities.

Evaluation: Out of 17 participants, 5 people really appreciated what we have done and gave us 5/5, while 6 people gave us 4/5, 2 people gave us 3/5 and 5 people have not commented on this training. Among the constructive feed backs many people told us that we have addressed the topic in an interactive way but we couldn't address the whole content due to lack of time.meanwhile some people felt like they have not learned new things.

Plans for follow up: We have planned to send the tools via their email address and we have shared our contact so that when ever they want to contact us with the training, we are more than welcome to help them.

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Fundraising Participants

Goals and methods: We wanted them to learn where they can get fundraising and show them the correct ways to approach someone. We used an excercise where they practiced their knowledge.

Facilitators Fleur Zijlstra IFMSA-NL

Siyu Yan IFMSA-China

Evaluation: Good, they saw we where new but thought we did a great job.

Plans for follow up: There are none.

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Recruitment and Public Relations Participants

Goals and methods: Facilitators 1.Define the field of public relations (PR) and discuss the different Abdias Palacios IFMSA-Panama terms of PR a. We started asking the trainees what did they understand is PR Savvas Radevic IFMSA-Serbia and we wrote it on a flipchart. After the brainstorming, we came up with the definition of PR and why is it important.

2. Define public relations actions and goals in regards to reaching out and finally getting more members in their organization a. We made different groups to discuss: what can we achieve by applying PR, what do we need to apply PR, and the advantages/disadvantages of internet and non internet forms of PR that we know. After the discussion of the answers, we connected this information with recruitment and how we can use this tools to get more members and get them more involved in the organization. Finally, we gave them an example of how to plan a campaign using PR. Evaluation: A minimum group of people didn’t like it (didn’t find anything new). Told us that more specific information will help, but most of them liked it. They liked the PR tools, the brainstorming, and the comfort space during the training. Some of them said that they will use the PR. Plans for follow up: We didn´t build a follow-up plan, but we have the information from many of the trainees. We could ask them if they are trying or will try to use the PR in their NMO and if they have any question about the topic.

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Handover Participants

Goals and methods: Handover skills, how to give a proper handover, what tools to use, where to give it, when and how to do a follow up on the handover, and what to do incase you were given a bad handover.

We used the 4MAT method.

Facilitators Afaf Atassi SMSA-Syria

Aslıgül Küçükçayır TurkMSIC-Turkey

Evaluation: Most people were satisfied with the session, they liked the exercises, the "follow up" and the "what if you were given a bad handover".

The biggest problem we faced and had negative feedback on was the setting as the room was dark.

Plans for follow up: -

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Motivation training session Participants

Goals and methods: Facilitators The vision of our training was: to make the participants understand Alma Douedari SMSA-Syria the theoretical concept of motivation more, so they can use this method in their daily life.

Thomas Dewaele BeMSA Goals: 1. To understand the differences between intrinsic and extrinsic motivation.

2. Knowing and understanding the Maslow hierarchy of needs: that the one needs to satisfy the most basic needs before he can move onto the next. (Physiological needs, safety needs, belongingness and love needs, esteem and self-actualization).

3. To know and understand the motivational factors and tools (leader, communication, group belonging, self-improvement, challenge).

4. Apply what they learn on real-life example cases.

Methods: 1. Small working groups.

2. Active brainstorming 3. Negotiations 4. We used sticky notes method for feedback Evaluation: 1.Feedback about information and data: mostly they said that they have learnt a lot and acquired new knowledge and information, but some of them said more data and more explanation were needed.

2. Feedback about performance: most of their comments were positive about our way of communicating with them and delivering the knowledge, however some of them said we need to plan more about how

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to make the training less chaotic.

Overall satisfaction: 75%-80% Plans for follow up: We have got all the participants e-mails to send them all the materials regarding this session and we gave them our contact so they can ask us anything about this topic and to keep in touch.

Photo: Motivation training session

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Activity Management training session Participants

Goals and methods: Goals:- To spread awareness of Activity management and impact assessment.

Facilitators Saniya Sahasrabudhe PSA

Saad Ukkas

Topics covered:Problem identification, needs assessment, Designing Goal Objectives Timeline for Activity, Resources mapping, Stakeholder analysis and SWOT analysis.

PC OTMD

AlQasim Abdullah PC EH

Methodology One to many type group discussion (flipcharts) Small Working Group (assignment) SWG on designing and discussing Goal and SMART objectives, Stakeholder analysis and SWOT analysis.

Evaluation: We collected one like and one dislike of the session.

Highlight was this was a holistic & comprehensive introduction to Activity Management.

Point for improvement: - to provide a pre defined sample problem State and goal for the SWG so as to save time.

Plans for follow up: Generalized webinar on Introduction to Activity management to reach a wider audience.

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Photo: Activity management training

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Human Resources Participants

Goals and methods: Facilitators Since Human resources is a very big subject for a 2 hours training, Maged El Ashmawy IFMSA-Egypt We had 2 different but intersecting goals to achieve: 1- Give as much background about the subject without making it all Hafsa lecture like.

Medsin Sudan 2- Focus on the important points that they must know.

- With using 4mat learning method, we gave the scientific part at first with using SWGs then a role play scenarios to tackle all the aspects of human resources with the application of it on IFMSA, then a very good debriefing to connect the relationship between all the activities that we did and why we did it.

Evaluation: 60% were very satisfied 20% were only satisfied at some points

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20% lost interest during the scientific introduction.

Follow up: A WhatsApp group for anyone to ask about anything they want to, and to share any new thing about the subject afterwards.

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Leadership Participants

Goals and methods: We actually wanted our trainers to learn about leadership skills and Facilitators how they could use them to tackle the problems in everyday life.

Amir Hassan IFMSA Pakistan Also we trained how to lead and convey a session in their respective LCs and NMOs. They learned about team work and team building Ä°dil KÄąna SCORP General Assistant through the activity. They learned about different concepts of leadership. First of all we checked that what kind of expectations they had from session through expectation chart. After that we introduced them with the renowned leaders of the world and what kind of concept they have about the leadership. We gave them the basics of leadership and than through activities they learned how to be become a good leader and tackle actual challenges in IFMSA. Evaluation: They were very satisfied from our method. They admired how we engaged them in different activities.

According to the feedback circle we made 15 trainers were 100 percent satisfied. 7 trainers were 70 to 80 percent satisfied and only were not satisfied wholely solely.

Follow up: We are arranging an OLM for the trainees in the May or june. We ll convince them to do training session on the same topics and than go for the other one. We ll ask them about the more detail feedback of our session too. We ll give them more important points regarding how to facilitate a session and how to give effective

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Conflict Management Participants

Goals and methods: the participants will be able to recognize a conflict and choose the appropriate method to resolve it. after a theoretical approach, cases were distributed among the participants, so they could apply their knowledge and choose an appropriate management method for each conflict. we then discussed the cases and debriefed.

Facilitators Celine El Khoury Erwin Vos

Evaluation: the trainees were satisfied in general. some suggested we should have given them additional conflict management tools. some said we should have opened more room for discussion (but we were a little bit short on time).

Follow up: no specific follow up plan

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Time Management Participants

Goals and methods: In this training session, our main goals were to make the trainees Facilitators understand why is time management important, show them what AndrĂŠ Fontoura ANEM Portugal exactly is time management and give them the tools, like how to prioritize, how to set their goals/objectives, the importance of to do Mohamed Ali IFMSA-Egypt lists and set na agenda, so they can manage their time the best way.

To achieve these goals, we tried to do a dynamic session using exercises, videos, brainstormings and a powerpint presentation. We also prepared some flipcharts that, unfortunately, we couldn’t use because of the illumination problems.

Evaluation: The final feedback had good and bad points.

In general, the trainees said that they liked the session and some of the tools were usefull, but, at the same time, they were expecting some more practical informations.

Follow up: To do the follow-up, in the end of the session, we shared our personal contacts (cell phone, e-mial and Facebook) so the trainees can contact us anytime in case they had any doubt or needed more information.

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Theme Event The Road Towards Universal Health Coverage IFMSA members discussed the different aspects of UHC and how can medical student play an important role in the worldwide movement to reach UHC by 2030, in the theme event organized in March Meeting.

IFMSA has received a video message from WHO Director General, Dr Tedros Adhanom, encouraging and supporting IFMSA members to work towards achieving Universal Health Coverage.

We carried out a panel discussion on Universal Health Coverage with speakers from the THEnet, Global Health Strategies and UHC2030. We discussed important topics and aspects related to UHC including: Health Equity, Political Will, Civil Society Engagement, Medical Education and Equipping the Future Health Workforce, and the Role of Partnerships.

After the panel, we held small working groups which drafted the different parts of the Hurghada Youth Call to Action on Universal Health Coverage, which is an outcome document from the theme event that will be used by IFMSA in high level meetings and discussions.

In addition, we renewed our Policy Document on Universal Health Coverage. All of these efforts will be guiding us in our work and contribution towards UHC in the upcoming period.

IFMSA is a leading organization in working towards ensuring health for all, and we will work together, hand in hand, with all of our members to equip the future health workforce with all they need to achieve Universal Health Coverage.

Female Genital Cutting Side Event Female genital cutting (FGC) is the collective name given to traditional practices that involve partial or total cutting away of the female external genitalia whether for cultural or other non-therapeutic reasons.

It is estimated that between 100 and 130 million girls and women now alive in at least 28 African countries and the Middle East have been subjected to FGC. In Egypt, the Demographic Health Survey in 2000 revealed that 97% of married women surveyed experienced FGC. Another study, carried out by the Egyptian Ministry of Health and Population in 2003, reported that 94.6% of married women had been exposed to FGC and 69.1% of those women agreed to carry out FGC on their daughters. A pilot study by the Health Insurance Organization showed that 41% of female students in primary, preparatory and secondary schools had been exposed to FGC. In March Meeting 2018, We had a side event on FGC organised by UNFPA tackling the medicalization of FGC, Knowledge of Medical Students on FGC and Efforts done to face this phenomenon. The side event was in the form of a panel discussion, after which students were able to ask questions and engage in open discussions.

Action towards Global epidemics & outbreaks In MM18, IFMSA had a theme event session "Action towards Global epidemics & outbreaks".

Particularly in Egypt, Hepatitis C is one of the national epidemics. In this session IFMSA members discussed the global and local epidemiology, and disease elimination efforts and plans locally and globally, hepatitis C treatment, different drugs, and outcome. It was conducted by: Prof.Ahmed El ray from Theodor Bilharz Research Institute and prof.Imam Waked from the National Liver Institute.

Members engaged in open discussions with the speakers after they presented the different aspects and topics related to Hepatitis C.

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Rex Crossley Awards Rex Crossley Awards is a tradition that exists in IFMSA in order to showcase and give attention to the best activities done in the NMOs. Top 10 activities are chosen based on their design, implementation and sustainability to compete for the first place at the Rex Crossley Awards.

When the activities are chose, we are also taking into the account the regional representation in order to ensure the diversity, something IFMSA is extremely proud of.

The activities are evaluated by judges composed of Officials and their International Assistants.

This year, the activity that won the first place is SHEBA, Sexual Health Education for Better Awareness, from EMSA Ethiopia.

As it was done before, the NMO of the winning activity will received an extra spot at the preWHA and WHA (World Health Assembly), for the next year.

10 Activities presented

1st Place: Sexual Health Education for Better Awareness (SHEBA) EMSA Ethiopia 2nd Place: Semicolon (;) The Mental Health Awareness Project MSAI India 3rd Place: Mind, Heart & Body MMSA Malta

Photo: Rex Crossley Awards finalists

Activities Fair Rex Crossley Awards is a tradition that exists in IFMSA in order to showcase and give attention to the best activities done in the NMOs. Top 10 activities are chosen based on their design, implementation and sustainability to compete for the first place at the Rex Crossley Awards.

When the activities are chose, we are also taking into the account the regional representation in order to ensure the diversity, something IFMSA is extremely proud of.

The activities are evaluated by judges composed of Officials and their

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Exchanges Fair Each NMO poster stand was evaluated by the SCOPE/SCORE IT review committee, according to the following criteria: general exchange information, presentation of Academic Quality, presentation of social program, visual presentation of poster, promotional materials and ecofriendliness. In addition to the review committee, each NMO also voted for the best Exchanges Fair stand.

The final results were decided by combining the votes of the NMOs with the ones of the review committee.

The Exchanges Fair is an important opportunity for NMOs to present their exchange programs and learn about exchanges in other NMOs. For this Exchanges Fair, we requested NMOs to design a poster for their exchange program to better facilitate the sharing process.

Furthermore, we encouraged the NMOs to be as green and eco-friendly as possible and were thereby able to reduce waste at this Exchanges Fair. For future fairs, we hope to continue these efforts to eventually become 100% eco-friendly.

234 Posters presented

1st Place: IFMSA CZ 2nd Place: IFMSA Brazil 3rd Place: IFMSA-Jo Honourable mention: MMSA Malta for a good and eco-friendly stand

Photo: Exchanges Fair

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Joint Sessions

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Human rights for the Intersex population Participants

In this session we started with discussing the difference of the terms “Intersex” and “DSD”. Then we moved on with the medical aspect of the issue.

After this we compared the old medical approach to the new one.

We mentioned the human rights violations of old approach and had interactive activities regarding the new patient centered-multi disciplinary approach.

Facilitators Idil Kina GA SCORP

Shashi Bhushan PC SGI

Jason Tang SCORA RA AP

We the moved on the the “what to do back home” in 4 steps: 1-Do medical research.2-Read clinical guidelines.3-Listen to activist. 4- Approach your lecturers Role play

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"Ethics and Human Rights in Medical Curricula SWG" Participants

The SCOME/SCORP joint session on ethics and human rights in Facilitators medical education during the MM2018 in Egypt was held on the 4th Tapesh Dutt Nagaria SWG Coordinator of March, 2018. The session saw the participation of 12 delegates from across all different of the federation. The session began with a Linah Hassanin round of introductions first of the facilitators and then from the SCOME DA participants to help us understand the demographic. This was Jose Espino followed by a small introduction of the SCOME/SCORP SWG and SCORP RA Americas the importance of the work being done by it and what conclusions it Fleur Zilstra expects. After this an introduction to bioethics was given, which IFMSA-NL outlined the basic concepts of bioethics and help people with no knowledge of it. This was succeeded by an introduction to human rights and the basics of HR for people with no background in it. We went on to gather input from the students by dividing them into two groups and asked them question pertaining to the state of bioethics and hr education in their curriculum and about why and if they think it’s important to be included. We also asked for input on ways they think that bioethics and hr can be taught in better ways. We ended the session with a round of questions from the participants and took their feedback on the session using the palm sheet. We also after all this discussed an interesting ethical dilemma for the participants who had some time to spare.

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Intercultural Learning and Culture Shock Participants

We started with Introducing facilitators to participants, explaining goals and objectives of the session and breaking the ice with an activity to make the atmosphere more friendly in order to make the participants familiar with each other.

Facilitators Basma Lahmer Ksenija Aleksic Luchacha Antonia Khabetsa Wael Al-Atout

We then had a presentation to provide participants with knowledge about basic terms we will use during the session such as definitions of learning, culture, intercultural learning etc.

We moved on to cultural perspectives using the Abigail Story. Participants were divided into groups of 4/5, were told the abigail story and were asked to order the people in it from best to worst, they will then be asked to explain why.

We then moved on to Basics of communication and conflicts management, Just after the story, we pointed out the significance of communication skills and conflict management. We defined basic terms and ways of behaviour we can use to prevent conflict and discussed various types of conflicts, ways to predict it and how to prevent it.

We had then an Introduction to IFMSA exchanges and provided basic information about what the exchange programs entail.

In the next part of the session, they encountered real life cases of patients who were put in controversial situations regarding their different cultures. We then debated on what we as doctors should do in each different situation.

We the briefly introduced Cultural Shock and reverse cultural shock and provided participants with knowledge on what culture shock is, as well as reverse culture shock as well as how to prepare students for them through Pre departure trainings/Pre Exchange Trainings and Upon arrival training

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The Price of Being Healthy Participants

The session was split into two parts. The first part was a simulation Facilitators activity where the participants were split into three groups. Each Ugonna Nwankpa SCORP Director group was given one person to manage. Each person had a number of medical conditions such as diabetes type II, myopia requiring Ghaida El Saddik glasses, coeliac disease requiring gluten free products etc and they LEMSIC-Lebanon were given a list of household items including food and medication Dominique Vervoort which they could buy from however they were limited to buying BeMSA-Belgium within their incomes. The first group had an income of 500 dollars, the second group 1000 and the third 2000. The items were priced so that some things were too expensive for the first and the second group while some were too expensive only for the first group in order to make the groups think about what they would prioritise in terms of their health and wellbeing.

The next part of the simulation consisted of 5 rounds of emergency medical scenarios in which the groups, still limited to their funds from their incomes, would need to decide what to do. Examples of an “emergency” included being in a major accident and not being fully covered by insurance and diagnosed with infertility and needing to decide if they could afford IVF or other medications.

The second part of the session was a presentation detailing what Universal Health Coverage means and statistics and facts on the current state of Universal Health Coverage.

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Public Health Exchanges (SCOPH Exchanges) Participants

The main goal of this Joint Session was to introduce participants to Facilitators the new Public Health Exchanges (PH Exchanges) launched by Nishwa Azeem SCOPH-Director SCOPE and SCOPH and explain why it is important to educate students about different approaches in public health as practiced in Tommaso Pomerani different countries.

SCOPE-Director At the beginning of the session, the participants were provided with Katja Čič background information on what is Public Health and the SCOPH General Assistant development of PH Exchanges, as well as their importance for Iris Blom SCOPH and SCOPE. SCOPE General Assistant Following the first introductory part, all the important documents for PH Exchanges were introduced, and all the steps of the organisation of a PH exchange were explained. This part took most of the time of the session since we received a lot of questions from the participants, mainly about the database, the contact with the Public

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Health institutes, and the collaboration between SCOPE and SCOPH in the organisation of the exchange.

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Research Initiatives for Medical Students Participants

We introduced the concept of doing research as medical students, Facilitators and its importance for the present and the future on different levels; Ximena Paredes Gonzalez personal, local and international. We emphasized the idea that SCOME RA for the Americas students can make a difference and conduct research as Marouane Amzil undergrads by giving the participants multiple real-life cases where SCOME RA for EMR they can intervene through research and provide solutions. For instance, we gave a group of them a case about antibiotics Abdelrahman Adly SCORE RA EMR resistance and asked them to propose a solution through research.

Afterwards, Participants were separated in 2 SWGs where they Tarek Turk SCORE DA rotated on 2 flipcharts providing input on each about Research Skills that a medical professional must have, and then the learning settings (formal or non-formal) where a medical student can learn about “Research Knowledge and Skills� and apply them. After they presented their input, we presented additional tips that were missed in their presentations. We then outlined the steps for students to start research initiatives at their local settings, starting with forming a well-structured research question and ending with publishing their results in an international medical journal. At the end we wrapped it all up with a recap highlighting the educational and non-educational activities that students can work on.

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Public Health in Medical Curricula Participants

SCOPH- SCOME Joint session on Public health in medical curricula Facilitators in MM2018 in Egypt was held on the 4th of March, 2018. The Tarek Ezzine session was a very vibrant session and saw the participation of 5 SCOPH Development Assistant delegates representative of the 5 different regions of the federation.

Alaa Abusufian E. Dafallah The session began with a round of introductions first of the SCOME Regional Assistant for Africa facilitators and then from the participants to help us understand the different backgrounds of participants. Participants were first Omnia El Omrani SCOPH Regional Assistant for the EMR introduced to the small working group aims and goals, and the shown the results of the survey so far in an interactive quiz. The participants where then shown the preview of the toolkit and input was collected on the toolkit outline.

Through discussions, participants gave input as well on recommendations/call of actions to various stakeholders towards promotion of Public health in curriculum. The session was successfully concluded at that note.

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Rights of medical students and its relation to mental health Participants

We started about 15-20 min late as there was a delay in getting the room. We started with an introduction to what Ifmsa programs were and what their purpose was, which was done by myself. Got really positive feedback on that, people understood for the first time what programs were. This was followed by an activity management session by Utku. Then we had program specific sessions on rights of medical students and mental health of medical students. All of this was done a little fast paced which was evident in the feedback.

However we wanted to save time for SWG so that people could implement what they learn. Overall response was really positive

Facilitators Ayesha Irfan Program Coordinator on Mental Health

Sanotsh Upadhyaya Program Coordinator on Dignified and NonDiscriminatory Healthcare

Utku Arslan TurkMSIC Turkey

Jan-Marcus Haus SCORP RA for Europe

Photo: Program Stream: Rights of medical students and its relationship to mental health

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Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights in disasters and post disaster setting Participants

IFMSA Programs 10 mn (Shashi)

Facilitators Iheb Jemel

Activity Management 20 mn (Shashi)

Isabel Jimenez Camps

Topic Specific Approach:

Shashi Bhushan

5-10 mn : Brainstorming (Isabel): what is an humanitarian setting?

What is a refugee?

Anthony Nemr

35 mn : Cases shared in the thread , answer the questions in the form of an ideas cafe ( 7 minutes for each case and then we ask the participants to rotate ) (Iheb explaining , Iheb Shashi Isabel and Anthony)

SCORA RA for EMR

Program Coordinator on Emergencies, Disaster Risk and Humanitarian Actions

Program Coordinator on Sexuality and Gender Identity

Program Representative on Maternal Health and Access to Safe abortion

Idil Kina SCORP General Assistant

10 mn Debriefing (Isabel & Anthony) SWGs: 35 mn: Brainstorming: which subtopic they would want to work on; examples of different approaches regarding the stream; Have SWGs regarding the specific topic and do the activity planning on it: goals, objectives, indicators, evaluation (Idil)

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Impact of Environment on Communicable diseases Participants

The session went really well and smoothly. All the feedback was very positive and encouraging. However, one major point that some of the participants raised is that they wanted the stream to focus more on the topic i.e. have more theoretical information on it. Some difficulties we encountered were late availability of the room and supplies. For future we recommend that the streams be publicized before the general assembly with their respective topics and to have less number of facilitators per stream.

Facilitators Natasha Irfan Program Coordinator on Communicable Diseases

AlQasim Abdullah Program Coordinator on Environment and Health

Omnia El Omrani SCOPH RA for EMR

Giorgios Dabanlis Program Representative on HIV/AIDS and other STIs

Ghaida Saddiq LeMSIC Lebanon

Photo: Program Stream: impact of environment on communicable diseases

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Photo: Program stream: Human trafficking

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Human Trafficking Participants

- Activity Management.

- Programs introduction.

- Human Trafficking: (Definitions, types, scenarios) - Activity designing on Human Trafficking.

Facilitators Ahmed Saleh Program Coordinator on Gender Based Violence

Saad Uakkas Program Coordinator on Organ, Marrow and Tissue Donation

Erva Nur Cinar Program Coordinator on Children Health and Rights

Lisa Schulte Program Coordinator on Comprehensive Sexuality Education

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Impact of Health Systems on NCDs Participants

Facilitators The session was conducted in the SCOME sessions room. The Saniya Sahasrabudhe session went well.

Program Suport Assistant As it was carried out for the first time, the experiment was a good Petra Lovrak one, well received and well coordinated.

Program Coordinator on Healthy Lifestyles The session covered general introduction and technicalities of and Non-Communicable Diseases ifmsa programs and enrollment procedure, followed bu basics of Maciek Bugajski activity management , SCOPH RA covered introduction and SCOPH RA for Europe overview of NCDs as disun problem PR HS Saniya gave a overview of health systems and primary care PC HLNCDs Petra covered prevention of NCDs and various ways activities based on HLNCDs can be evaluated. The need for evaluating activities and submitting the report after enrollment was highlighted. The session had a SWG that worked on designing model activity with help of activity management skills based of focus areas of HLNCD ans HS.

Photo: Program Stream: Impact of health systems on NCDs

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Photo: Program Stream: Social Accountability of medical schools regarding medical skills

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Social Accountability of medical schools regarding medical skills Participants

Facilitators The session started with a dynamic presentation of the participants Pablo Estrella Porter and facilitators. After this we gave the participants and introduction SCOME Director to IFMSA Programs, so they can understand their basic structure Alan Patlan as well as the processes to enroll activities. We continued with an Program Representative on Teaching introduction to Social Accountability to spread an understanding of Medical Skills why it is important within the medical curricula and medical skills Ahmed ElShaer provided by medical schools. We also provided the participants Program Representative on Medical Education Systems with the necessary knowledge and skills regarding activity management through a small session in the topic, finalizing with SWGs in which the participants were capable to understand what is the role of medical students regarding SA and medical curriculum, and in which they were provided with tools to get involved nationally and locally. The session was closed with a debriefing and feedback.

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Miscellanous Sessions Policy Discussion In MM18, we had nine policy proposals, which are: Social Accountability, Global Health Workforce, Noncommunicable Diseases, Universal Health Coverage, Antimicrobial Resistance, Gender Equity, Neglected Tropical Diseases, Ethical Medical Placements Abroad, and Drug Reform. We carried out a policy discussion session on the third day of the general assembly, in which IFMSA members were divided into groups according to the policies they are interested to discuss. In the working groups, members explored the different parts of the policies, discussed the calls for action, how it can be improved and any suggested changes and amendments. In addition, members also discussed how they can use this policy on international high level meetings and how they can implement it in their NMOs and use it in a local and national setting. All the policies were adopted in the plenary.

Networking During the Networking session, LOSO and LME invited participants to get to know each other. Initially, all name tags were collected by the coordinators. They were later redistributed randomly to participants who were tasked with finding both their own name tag but also the person whose name tag they had been given. This essentially helped ease the acquaintance of participants who had not previously met and created a very friendly atmosphere in the room.

The majority of them managed to find their name tag fairly easily, however, for some the coordinators had to intervene. Due to the short duration (30minutes) of the session, we did not have time to work more on the team building.

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Plenary Plenary Sessions were conducted in March Meeting 2018, by facilitation of the Plenary Team. Present was the entirety of the IFMSA body; as well as present Members of the IFMSA.

Plenary Team Torsten Vinding Merinder Plenary Chairperson

Federico Mazzola Plenary Vice-Chairperson

We had five plenary sessions, which are the formal processes of the General Assemblies, where all major decisions are undertaken by the IFMSA.

Dominic Schmid

Motions for each plenary session (regular motions) were gone through during each mornings Presidents' Sessions; presented by either Chairperson or Vice-Chairperson; and each agenda item for the nights plenary was also gone through. During Plenaries, either Chairperson or the Vice-Chairperson would chair - with specific points (e.g. Bylaw Change Proposals) exclusively facilitated by the Vice-Chairperson - with others facilitated by the Chairperson.

Melike Saba Erdinc

Evaluation meetings were held after each Plenary by the Plenary Team - to solve any issues faced.

Joanna Oszewska

Plenary Secretary

Linah Mohamed Hasanein CCC Member

CCC Member

Frank Rodriguez CCC Member

Po-Chin Li CCC Member

Johannes Franke CCC Member

Assistant Secretary

Maha Nasr

Close collaboration between the Supervising Council, the Plenary Team, the Executive Board and the Team of Officials ensured that the formal processes of the IFMSA were conducted in an orderly, satisfying and structured manner. In particular the great efforts made by the Vice-President for Activities 2017-2018 (Hana LuÄ?ev), and the President 2017-2018 Carlos Acosta, were highly valuable to the proper conductance and furtherment of the IFMSA work.

Assistant Secretary

Ahmed Elshaer Assistant Secretary

Anusheh Javaid Assistant Secretary

Vanessa Muller Returning Officer

Ahmed Ellouze Returning Officer

Photo: Plenary Team

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The General Assembly in numbers Evaluation processes: • •

Pre- and post- knowledge evaluation Logistics evaluation

1. PRE- AND POST- KNOWLEDGE EVALUATION Background: For the first time in IFMSA we have decided to try to measure the impact we are making to our members in terms of knowledge gained during the General Assemblies. The process itself was discussed during TOM1.

Every session had its own set of questions, made by the Official. The questions were based on the agenda of specific session, both morning and regional.

The questions for pre and post evaluation were the same, with the addition of a couple of questions regarding logistics in the post-evaluation questionnaire.

Data collection: The form for pre-evaluation was sent 3 weeks before the meeting, with the deadline of 2 weeks to fill it out. The post-evaluation was sent 1 week after the end of the meeting, also with a 2 week deadline for completion.

We received in total 785 responses for the pre-evaluation and 702 responses for the post-evaluation.

One of the questions in the post-evaluation was regarding the percentage of attendance to the sessions, which was in order to make sure the consistency of their attendance and remove the participants with less than 70% attendance from the calculations.

In the end, we had 688 participants who filled out both pre- and post-evaluation and satisfied all the criteria.

The number based on the sessions is the following: •

Presidents: 100; SCOME: 84; SCOPE: 95 ;SCORE: 63; SCOPH: 92; SCORA: 84; SCORP: 76; NMO management: 95

Data analysis: The method to analyze the data use was t test for dependent samples, since we cross-checked the responses in the pre- and post-evaluation to compare the difference.

We used p<0.05, as it is usually used in research in order to prevent the coincidental results.

According to it, most of the sessions have scored in the span from 0.01 to 0.05, which means that there is a statistically significant difference in knowledge before and after the regional meeting.

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More specifically, the ones who did have statistically significant difference are: SCOME (0.000); SCORE (0.000); SCOPH (0.000); SCORA (0.000); SCORP (0.000); Americas regional sessions (0.005); AsiaPacific (0.000); EMR (0.019); Europe (0.004).

Some of the sessions had a p bigger than 5%, which means that it is not included in the 95% percent, which is usually used to reject the null hypothesis.

Those sessions were: Presidents (0.142); NMO Management (0.674); SCOPE (0.142); Africa regional sessions (0.515).

Concusion: This data analysis shows that there is statistically significant difference in knowledge of the participants of March Meeting 2018 in almost all the sessions.

There are a couple of things that need to be considered when analyzing the results: the assessment of questions asked during the evaluation; basic level of knowledge of the participants; attendance of the participants to specific sessions etc. which all influence the results of the evaluation.

2. LOGISTICS EVALUATION

Agenda and Sessions Evaluation

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Session satisfaction

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Logistics

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To make sure there is a place to find the OC and the information on the sessions, social program and other activities during the event itself; To use a single way to share information during the event, rather than every possible, taking into account internet availability as well; To provide itineraries and more information about the post-GA trips before they begin;

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To make sure that the merchandise is of high quality; in the number and size requested by delegates, and delivered to delegates in time; To ensure that the microphone, WiFi and other technical stuff is working before the start of the event; To provide more information earlier, especially about the arrival day and check in times so flights can be booked accordingly; Materials were missing for the Sessions Teams and they lacked help to prepare the sessions rooms; To have transportation sorted out better according to the number of people in order not to have long waiting times at the airport; To have more OC members in charge of registration on the first day and a faster system so delegates don’t wait for too long;

Algeria (Le Souk)

Egypt (IFMSA-Egypt)

Kuwait (KuMSA)

Saint Lucia (IFMSA-Saint Lucia)

Argentina (IFMSA-Argentina)

Latvia (LaMSA)

Senegal (FNESS)

Armenia (AMSP)

El Salvador (IFMSA-El Salvador)

Lebanon (LeMSIC)

Serbia (IFMSA-Serbia)

Aruba (IFMSA-Aruba)

Estonia (EstMSA)

Lesotho (LEMSA)

Sierra Leone (SLEMSA)

Australia (AMSA)

Ethiopia (EMSA)

Libya (LMSA)

Singapore (AMSA-Singapore)

Austria (AMSA)

Fiji (FJMSA)

Lithuania (LiMSA)

Slovakia (SloMSA)

Azerbaijan (AzerMDS)

Finland (FiMSIC)

Luxembourg (ALEM)

Slovenia (SloMSIC)

Bangladesh (BMSS)

France (ANEMF)

Malawi (UMMSA)

South Africa (SAMSA)

Belgium (BeMSA)

Gambia (UniGaMSA)

Malaysia (SMMAMS)

Spain (IFMSA-Spain)

Bolivia (IFMSA-Bolivia)

Georgia (GMSA)

Mali (APS)

Sudan (MedSIN)

Bosnia & Herzegovina (BoHeMSA)

Germany (bvmd)

Malta (MMSA)

Sweden (IFMSA-Sweden) Switzerland (swimsa)

Greece (HelMSIC)

Mexico (AMMEF-Mexico)

Bosnia & Herzegovina – Republic of Srpska (SaMSIC)

Mongolia (MMLA)

Syrian Arab Republic (SMSA)

Montenegro (MoMSIC)

Taiwan - China (FMS)

Morocco (IFMSA-Morocco)

Tajikistan (TJMSA)

Nepal (NMSS)

Thailand (IFMSA-Thailand)

The Netherlands (IFMSA NL)

The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (MMSA)

Brazil (DENEM)

Ghana (FGMSA) Grenada (IFMSA-Grenada)

Brazil (IFMSA-Brazil)

Guatemala (IFMSA-Guatemala)

Bulgaria (AMSB)

Guinea (AEM)

Burkina Faso (AEM)

Guyana (GuMSA)

Burundi (ABEM)

Haiti (AHEM)

Cameroon (CAMSA)

Honduras (IFMSA-Honduras)

Canada (CFMS)

Hungary (HuMSIRC)

Canada – Québec (IFMSA-Québec)

Iceland (IMSA)

Oman (MedSCo)

India (MSAI)

Pakistan (IFMSA-Pakistan)

Catalonia - Spain (AECS)

Indonesia (CIMSA-ISMKI)

Palestine (IFMSA-Palestine)

Chile (IFMSA-Chile)

Iran (IMSA)

Panama (IFMSA-Panama)

China (IFMSA-China)

Iraq (IFMSA-Iraq)

Paraguay (IFMSA-Paraguay)

China – Hong Kong (AMSAHK)

Iraq – Kurdistan (IFMSA-Kurdistan)

Peru (IFMSA-Peru)

Colombia (ASCEMCOL)

Ireland (AMSI)

Philippines(AMSA-Philippines)

Costa Rica (ACEM)

Israel (FIMS)

Poland (IFMSA-Poland)

Croatia (CroMSIC)

Italy (SISM)

Portugal (ANEM)

Cyprus (CyMSA)

Jamaica (JAMSA)

Qatar (QMSA)

Czech Republic (IFMSA-CZ)

Japan (IFMSA-Japan)

Republic of Moldova (ASRM)

United States of America (AMSA-USA)

Democratic Republic of the Congo (MSA-DRC)

Jordan (IFMSA-Jo)

Romania (FASMR)

Uruguay (IFMSA-URU)

Kazakhstan (KazMSA)

Russian Federation (HCCM)

Uzbekistan (Phenomenon)

Denmark (IMCC)

Kenya (MSAKE)

Venezuela (FEVESOCEM)

Dominican Republic (ODEM)

Korea (KMSA)

Russian Federation – Republic of Tatarstan (TaMSA)

Ecuador (AEMPPI)

Kosovo - Serbia (KOMS)

Rwanda (MEDSAR)

Zambia (ZaMSA)

Nicaragua (IFMSA-Nicaragua) Nigeria (NiMSA) Norway (NMSA)

Peru (APEMH)

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