Candidature Package - RD Americas ad interim

CANDIDATURE FOR

Regional Director for Americas ad interim - 2018/2019

Ximena Paredes Gonzรกlez

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Motivation Letter Plan of Action Curriculum Vitae

Motivation Letter Dear Americas family, My name is Ximena Paredes González, I’m 24 years old and currently studying the last year of my medical career at the Universidad del Pacífico in my beloved city of Asunción, Paraguay. I address myself with a lot of affection and admiration to present, with great pride, my candidacy for Regional Director for Americas ad interim.

Why did I decide to do it? After analyzing deeply, thinking a lot and taking many hard decisions, I realized that I see passion, dedication, potential and experience, not only in me, but in you, my family, my region, and all this must be exploited and show the world that we are made of.

My path in IFMSA started in 2015, in the committee that took my heart, SCOME. As I acted as LOME, I loved seeing how the students of my university acquired capacities to be agents of change and that they did it for the simple fact of wanting change the world. That motivated me to apply for NOME, and for the next two periods, I worked and took SCOME in IFMSA Paraguay to expand and grow.

During those years, I attended the General Assemblies in Mexico and Tanzania, and the RM in Peru, I took the TMET, but I also developed my abilities within the executive board of my local committee, first as general secretary , where my greatest achievement was the complete reform of the local bylaws, and then as vice president of internal affairs. I applied for the position of regional SCOME assistant for the Americas region and, at the same time, as the Supervising Council of my local committee.

During the period as a member of the international team, I developed management skills and improved my teamwork skills, I also got to know the IFMSA Constitution and Bylaws, and during my last general assembly in Montreal, Canada, I had the opportunity to represent IFMSA Paraguay as head of delegation and participate in work sessions and discussions with other presidents.

At a local, national and international level, IFMSA gave me too much, and what better way to give back than using all the knowledge, skills and aptitudes within my beloved region, taking it to another level where we continue to be an example of capacity and improvement.

Then, you will see my ideas reflected in work strategies so that all this is possible.

With love, Ximena

Plan of Action Follow Up

Shining to the World Regional Stars

National Stars

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Plan of Action

Follow Up

The follow up and handover process is the most important star of the upcoming term. Setting a handover schedule and checklist with the RD Americas 2017/2018 will establish a work route in order to continue the work done past terms. During the handover, establish a work timeline for the term, having 2 main topics per time period, which will be defined in common agreement with the current RD. The follow up should focus on: - Regional Meeting Ecuador 2019 preparations - External Representation opportunities and partnerships, including PAHO, PAFAMS, CONFEMEL, UNICEF, LALMA, FELSOCEM & students’ organizations - NMO recruitment and development, especially in the Caribbean - Establishment of a solid work plan between outgoing RD and the following RD to be elect in MM2019 Also during the handover meetings, assess and evaluate work strategies used past terms, in order to keep the effective ones and improve and try other work strategies that could have been better.

Regional Stars

As a region, we have particular matters to talk about. Our team, our family should give us confidence and assurance of high quality information, wonderful opportunities and recognition from other regions and/or externals. The Regional Meeting, most important regional event, should be the best of the best for the best, an amazing learning experience and should offers opportunities to improve at different levels. The Regional Team Meeting, the critic meeting point of the term, as the RT assess and evaluates the work done so far and creates a work route to improve and achieve regional goals.

Regional Team - Will be composed of: ▪ 1 General Assistant, ▪ 1 Internal Development Assistant, ▪ 1 Involvement Assistant and ▪ 1 External Representation & Policy Making Assistant ▪ 1 RA per SC ▪ 1 CB RA - Since day 1: ▪ if possible, collaborate with SCs’ Directors in the selection of their assistants for the region, the same with the VPCB. ▪ Assist to interviews and propose selection criteria according to regional needs and priorities.

- Focus on teamwork: ▪ team dynamics, ground rules, communication lines, team building activities during the first meeting to get to know each other and ▪ establish a Regional Annual Working Plan, according to Regional Strategic Plan, IFMSA Strategic Plan, IFMSA Global Priorities and Americas’ External Representation priorities for the rest of the term.

- Get ready for regional meeting: ▪ follow up with RT in order to have a high quality sessions’ agenda.

▪ Work closely with the RM OC since the beginning of the term to assure the continuous and smooth process of organization of the event.

Regional Meeting - Pre Regional Meeting: ▪ Capacity building opportunities for the region.

▪ Work on assessing the current Capacity Building needs of the region, publish the results prior opening the call for PreRM workshops.

▪ Working closely with CB RA, VPCB and workshops coordinators to assure high quality trainings.

- Regional Meeting: ▪ Continuous follow up with SCs RAs with their agendas, promote the inter SC collaboration and joint sessions.

▪ Continuous communication between RD and RM OC to follow up on Contents and Logistics of the event.

▪ Promotion of an ecofriendly event and also, ecofriendly delegations.

▪ Use the Regional Meeting as a NMO Recruitment opportunity, inviting potential NMOs. Regional Team Meeting - Assessment tool of RM: ▪ evaluation post event, if the content of the meeting was enough or if it is needed to keep training the region in certain topics.

- Team building opportunity: ▪ to get closer to the RT and develop new partnerships in between the team.

- Annual Working Plan & Regional Strategic Plan work route: ▪ assess current work strategies, analyze and improve them. It is important to get inputs from NMO presidents’ prior the Regional Meeting or during presidents’ sessions, to discuss and evaluate better ways to achieve the regional goals for the term.

- The future RD opportunity: ▪ propose to have 3 observers that are interested on applying for RD in the upcoming March Meeting.

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National Stars

Our members, our NMOs are the stars of the region. Developing new skills and improving the ones they already have will make them get to other levels of quality. Helping the NMOs to get strategies by trainings and working with other NMOs, will improve their potential and get even more recognition at the national, regional and international level.

NMO development and improvement - NMOs national strategic plans: ▪ as the federation and region already established their own strategic plans for the following 3 and 2 years, the RT should promote the implementation of strategic plans at the national level. These are for better organization and achievement of national goals.

- NMOs national financial strategies: as a region, we’ve facing financial barriers to keep developing.

▪ The establishment of financial plan, with the help and advice of VPF and the national treasures, will contemplate fundraising, national budgets, payments of memberships fees, and payments of meetings fees.

▪ Also include efforts to fundraising for national travel assistance funds, for members to get the opportunity to attends internal and external meetings.

- Inter NMOs collaboration: ▪ establish the NMO-RT buddy and NMO-NMO buddy systems.

These to promote regional collaboration and exchanging of ideas and work strategies, for NMO improvement. .

Shining to the World

External representation & Policy documents - At the national level: ▪ work on trainings on policy making for NMOs, ▪ development and implementation of a policy making manual (with the ExRep Assistant) at the national level, ▪ help in the process of contacting external in the country of the NMOs. ▪ Promote policy making trainings online and at NGAs for NMOs. - At the regional level: develop the AWP of the RT involving the goals around the regional priorities ● Sustainable Development Goals ● Human Resources for Health ▪ Promotion of participation of americas members in policy making commissions, ▪ development of policy documents on regional matters.

- At the international level: ▪ with the financial plans, establish TAFs at national levels to help NMOs to have representatives at the following meetings. ● NMOs at IFMSA meetings o RMs o MMs o AMs ● NMOs at external meetings ▪ Promotion of external opportunities, such as internships, summer schools in and out of the region and delegations to external meetings.

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- Name: Ximena Paredes González - Age: 24 years old - Date of Birth: 21/12/1993 - Academic status: 6th year medical student at Universidad del Pacifico Privada - Nationality: Paraguay

- Class President, 2014 - OC of multiple local and national activities in different fields (social accountability, medical education, global health, research in medicine) - Graduated teaching assistant, 2018 - OC of XXXIII CCI FELSOCEM 2018 IFMSA Events

5 NGAs 2 SRTs 2 RMs 1 SCOPE exchange

4 GAs

Curriculum Vitae IFMSA Experience 2015 * LOME, LC: SOCEM UP 2015/2016 2016 * SCOPE exchange, Tunisia, February 2016 * General Secretary, LC: SOCEM UP 2016/2017 * OC, IFMSA Paraguay NGA March 2016 * Facilitator, SCOME sessions, IFMSA Paraguay NGA March 2016 * NOME, IFMSA Paraguay 2016/2017 * OC, PRET Paraguay 2016 * Participant, TMET, Pre GA AM México 2016 * General delegate, SCOME sessions, AM México 2016 * Facilitator, SCOME sessions, IFMSA Paraguay NGA September 2016 2017 * Vice president for internal affairs, LC: SOCEM UP 2017/2018 * NOME, IFMSA Paraguay 2017/2018 * Facilitator, TMET, Pre RM Perú 2017 * Support person, SCOME sessions, RM Perú 2017 * Facilitator, SCOME sessions, IFMSA Paraguay NGA March 2017 * NOME, IFMSA Paraguay 2017/2018 * Coordinator, Regional SWG, Capacity building in SCOME (InforMED) * Participant, Regional SWG, SCOME/SCORE Educational Activities (MRI) * Participant, SCOME SWG, TMET Manual * Coordinator & Facilitator, TMET, SRT Paraguay 2017 * Sessions team, SCOME sessions, AM Tanzania 2017 * SCOME Regional Assistant for Americas, 2017/2018 2018 * Supervising Council, LC: SOCEM UP 2018/2019 * Facilitator, AMET, Pre RM Paraguay 2018 * Coordinator and Facilitator, SCOME Sessions, RM Paraguay 2018 * Facilitator, AMET, Pre MM Egypt 2018 * Sessions team, SCOME sessions, MM Egypt 2018 * Facilitator, SCOME sessions, IFMSA Paraguay NGA April 2018 * CCC, IFMSA Paraguay NGA April 2018 * Coordinator, SWG, SCOME/SCORE Research focused Educational Activities * General delegate, AMMEF Mexico, VI International Congress on Medical Education. June 2018 * Supervising Council, IFMSA Paraguay 2018/2019 * Supervisor, TMET, SRT Colombia 2018 * Coordinator and Facilitator, TMET, SRT Chile 2018 * Facilitator, AMET, Pre AM Canadá 2018 * Sessions team, SCOME sessions, AM Canadá 2018 * Head of Delegation, IFMSA Paraguay, AM Canadá 2018 * Participant, Presidents’ sessions, AM Canadá 2018

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