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Letter from the VPC
LETTER FROM THE VICEPRESIDENT FOR COMMUNICATION
Salut à tout le monde, liebe Leser:innen, cari/e studenti/esse
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You hold the latest issue of the Swiss Medical Students’ National Journal, as the swimsa Journal is officially named, in your hands. Can you believe that it is already the Journal’s 20th edition? One can only imagine how many stories have already been told on these pages, how many memories have been shared, and how many events and activities have been inviting the readers to participate.
We are again facing difficult times. With most of the Covid regulations being abolished during Spring 2022, the universities finally came back to normal, almost pre-pandemic life. But this new normality only lasted for a few weeks when the Ukraine conflict escalated and turned our world upside down. On the occasion of the March Meeting - the Delegates’ Assembly of the International Federation of Medical Students Associations - this topic was also very much discussed and swimsa together with various students’ associations took a clear stance against all wars and violence throughout our planet. Probably just a small step, but one in the right direction.
But what has this to do with the swimsa Journal? Everyday swimsa and the people being involved in swimsa are constantly working in order to improve our medical studies, to organise meetings or events and to get involved in Public Health. They are all taking steps, sometimes little steps, sometimes giant leaps, and all into the direction of the studies and the world we aspire to have. This journal is the place where all efforts and all successes, all ideas and all realisations get the opportunity to be appreciated. Be it committees striving for better education, projects aiming at more equal opportunities for medical students or the world of exchanges - here you can marvel at all of them and understand the energy that stands behind swimsa.
I now wish you an exciting read and am already looking forward to reading the next journal full of swimsa stories!
Benedikt Reuthebuch in the name of the EB 21/22
