evagus, october 2009

Content

Editorial p2

From the President p3

Message from the SCOME-D p4

Still exChanging the world… p5

Message from the SCOPH-D p6

Foreword by the new SCORA-Director p7

From the SCORE-D p8

From the SCORP-D p9

Introduction to the Team of Officials p10

eVAGUSThe official IFMSA newsletter.

October 2009

Upcoming Observant days:

UN Calendar of Observanceshttp://www.un.org/events/calendar

WHO Calendar of Observanceshttp://www.who.int/mediacentre/

events/annual/en/index.html

WHO Calendar of Consultation Meetings

http://www.who.int/mediacentre/events/meetings/en/index.html

Conferences IFMSA will be represented in:

The 20th European Students’ Conference – Revolutions in Medicine

4th – 7th October; Berlin, Germanyhttp://www.esc-berlin.com/

XIX FIGO World Congress of Gynecology & Obstetrics

4th – 9th October; Cape Tow, SARhttp://www.figo2009.org.za/

Fifty-sixth Session of the WHO Regional Committee for the Eastern Mediterranean

5th – 8th October; Fez, Moroccohttp://www.emro.who.int/rc56/information.htm

Network Meeting of Secretary-Generals Directors of YFJ Member Organisations – including the Information and Networking

Day on Funding8th – 9th October 2009; Brussels, Belgium

World Health Summit 200915th to 18th October, Berlin

http://worldhealthsummit.org/

HAI Europe Open Seminar "EU Policy in Action–In Whose Interest?"

23rd October 2009; Brussels, Belgiumhttp://www.haiweb.org/

Action Planning Meeting YFJ joint meeting with IPPF

6th November 2009; Brussels, Belgium

Editorial

Dear IFMSA members,Today I am very proud to present you with the first edition of eVAGUS in its new de-sign! After one year of silence eVAGUS is out again to inform you about the news and internal work within IFMSA.You will notice that every page contains different information representing dif-ferent aspects of our IFMSA work. This edition includes a message from the President and the Standing Committee Directors, together with a list of the up-coming events and meetings in which IFMSA shall be represented.We, the new IFMSA Team of Officials, want to use this edition to speak to you, to welcome you in the new term and to encourage you to continue the work that you do. Your work is what we are! Your work is the building block for us to achieve our goal and make this planet a healthier place to live on!

Enjoy reading!

Alexander WerniPublications SD Director 2009-2010

eVAGUS is an IFMSA publication© Portions of eVAGUS may be repro-duced for non political, and non profit purposes mentioning the source provided.

Notice: Every care has been taken in the preparation of these articles. Neverthe-less, errors cannot always be avoided. IFMSA cannot accept any responsibility for any liability. The opinions expressed in eVAGUS are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of IFMSA.

Contact Information:General Secretariat:IFMSA c/o WMAB.P. 6301212 Ferney-VoltaireFrancePhone: +33 450 404 759Fax: +33 450 405 937Email: [email protected]

Homepage: www.ifmsa.org

Feedback:[email protected]

The missionof IFMSA is to offer future physi-cians a comprehensive introduction to global health issues. Through our programs and opportunities, we de-velop culturally sensitive students of medicine, intend on influencing the transnational inequalities that shape the health of our planet.

eVAGUS | October 2009

www.ifmsa.org medical students worldwide

March Meeting 2010IFMSA-Thailand, Bangkok, Thailand

7th – 13th March 2010Theme: "Complementary and

Alternative Medicine"

August Meeting 2010IFMSA-Quebec & CFMS, Montréal,

Canada 31st July – 6th August 2010Theme: "Health and the City"

Africa Regional MeetingDecember 17th – 23rd 2009, Khartoum,

Sudan (MedSIN-Sudan)Theme: Refugees & Peace "Darfor Call"

Regional Meeting of the Americas

January 5th – 11th 2010, Quillota, Chile (IFMSA-Chile, Chile)

Theme: "Inequality and Social Work in Health: Generating Tools for the Change"

Asia & Pacific Regional MeetingMarch 16th – 21st 2010, Bangkok, Thai-

land (IFMSA Thailand, Thailand)Theme: "A Chance for More Choices"

TOM 1October 14th – 18th 2009

Amsterdam, the Netherlands(IFMSA-NL, The Netherlands)

TOM 2December 26th – 31st 2009

Nova Gorica, Slovenia(SloMSIC, Slovenia)

From the President

Dear IFMSA members,You have just started to read the first edi-tion of eVAGUS in the term 2009-2010. This seems as a perfect opportunity to introduce to you our new Team of Of-ficials, present to you the updated look of our Federation, as well as share with you some of the joint principles and plans your team of Officials will work on in the upcoming year.

A new team of Officials elected during the 58th General Assembly will surely remem-ber October 1st for a very long time; the day they embarked on a year-long jour-ney as a part of an international team of 34 medical students and recent graduates from 22 countries – working together as student leaders for a healthier tomorrow. We are hereby making a bold promise to continuously strive for the best and never give up; to scale up the representation of medical students, coordination of joint activities and initiatives, build meaningful partnerships, as well as to continuously support our Federation for the benefit of all medical students across the world.

We promise never to forget what brought us to medicine, our community and col-leagues that supported us to be elected for this task we are about to take. We will celebrate our joint values and principles, regardless of the cultural differences; en-suring to cooperate, share ideas and ex-periences in order to adequately respond

to the needs of international medical stu-dents. We are faithful to our mission to ensure medical students are better pre-pared for their future role as physicians. In its 59th year, IFMSA is continuing to be one of the largest and most important stu-dent organizations that brings together over 1.2 million medical students from 97 National Member Organizations world-wide. As an organization run by medical students for medical students, we should be very proud of fantastic achievements made through the joint efforts of our predecessors, particularly as IFMSA is a volunteer organization based on mutual cooperation.

We invite you to join us in making IFMSA history – together.

On behalf of the IFMSA Team of Officials 2009-2010,

Silva RukavinaPresident 2009-2010



Message from the SCOME-D

Dear SCOMEdians, SCOME was one of IFMSA's first stand-ing committees since its foundation in 1951. Ever since, SCOME has acted as a discussion forum for students interested in the different aspects of medical educa-tion. Our mission is to promote modern medical education. This is necessary be-cause healthcare is changing rapidly on multiple fronts. However, medical schools are not or only slowly introducing changes to their curricula. As a result, we question that students are able to face the needs of healthcare in a modern society if their curricula do not change as well.Most medical faculties throughout the world have already been working on their curricula. Medical students also play an important role and should be actively in-volved in the process of reform. After all, medical students are directly exposed to medical education curricula and can be rightfully assumed to be experts on their educational system!

Within SCOME we try to reach the afore-mentioned goals by teaching and train-ing students, developing projects, ex-changing experiences and spreading information. This would not be possible without the input and involvement of all SCOMEdians be it on the local, national or international levels. The mailing serv-ers are an important way of exchanging experiences and spreading information. I therefore encourage everyone to contin-ue their excellent work and be even more active on the SCOME mailing lists. Your input can be really helpful for others and only by working together we will be able

to keep improving medical education cur-ricula worldwide.In the coming weeks, I will work on the formation of the new SCOME internation-al team. If you are interested and would like to be part of it: start writing a letter and if you have any questions, don’t hesi-tate to contact me!The new term officially started last week, so let's work together and make it an-other great SCOME year! I'm very much looking forward to working with all of you! Margot WeggemansSCOME Director 2009-2010

Margot Weggemans

SCOME-Director 2009-2010



Still exChanging the World…

Dear SCOPEans; At the core of its creation, the standing committee on exchanges was the first standing committee in IFMSA history. Ever since, student mobility and exchang-es have always been the largest IFMSA activity in itself. Having reached over 250000 medical student participants in its exchange programs, IFMSA today offers a month-long clerkship for 8000 medical students per year in over 86 countries, 1100 faculties and 700 Local Committees. Being the largest student-run exchange program in the world, SCOPE still keeps the same mission statement for 58 years: "To promote cultural understanding and cooperation among medical students and all health professionals, through the facili-tation of international students’ exchang-es". The Standing Commitee on Profes-sional Exchange allows the students to deepen their medical understanding, their awareness of global health issues as well as to widen their cultural backgrounds.SCOPE is constantly trying to improve the quality of its program while growing to

cover even more faculties and countries around the world. Most medical faculties nowadays give their outgoing exchange students academic credit after partici-pating in SCOPE programs. Morever, in order to receive academic credit for Pro-fessional Exchanges, the quality of the clerkships must be secured. Under this theme, SCOPE has introduced an as-sessment tool that the student carries during the clerkship. It includes a detailed logbook, a detailed checklist specific for the department and an evalutation form to be filled by the supervising tutor. SCOPE's activities however are not lim-

ited to exchanges, as work is continuous on supporting these exchanges with a complete Incoming Package that includes "student guide"; a guide with useful infor-mation written by the contact persons.I would like to stress out that SCOPE has grown and improved within decades of time. And now we need to carry the torch to maintain SCOPE’s importance and im-pact in the lives of medical students.

Let’s keep exChanging the world! Ali Cankut Tatliparmak SCOPE Director 2009-2010

Ali Cankut Tatliparmak

SCOPE-Director 2009-2010



Upcoming events

World Mental Health Day10th October

World Diabetes Day14th November

World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims

16th November

World Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Day

19th November

Universal Children’s Day20th November

Message from the SCOPH-D

Since more than six decades, theIFMSA Standing Committee on Public Health has brought together medical stu-dents from all over the world who want to positively contribute to their society. Dur-ing the last 12 months SCOPH has truly experienced a highly invigorating and in-novative year. This would not have been possible, had it not been for all SCOPHi-ans who so devotingly and enthousiasti-cally dedicated their time to make a dif-ference!For the upcoming year we will continue to build on the high level our SCOPH net-work currently stands and further expand the opportunities our Standing Commit-tee offers. The focus of the year will lie in four key areas: 1st Assisting SCOPHians worldwide in their work, 2nd Continuity & Sustainability, 3rd High Quality, Educa-tional and Interactive General Assembly SCOPH Sessions and 4th Efficient Dis-tribution of Information on Opportunitites offered by External Organisations within SCOPH to Local SCOPHians.In order to achieve these goals, SCOPH

is composed of an extremely motivated team – local SCOPHians working on projects within their local committees and those assisting and coordinating nation-ally and internationally. Be it on the local, national, regional, or international level, we all form one very orange team!At the international level you will be able to rely on the assistance of the SCOPH Dream Team 2009-2010, which will be in-troduced to you very soon. The SCOPH Dream Team is there to advise you in your everyday work, guide you through any problems you may encounter and to provide you with the necessary tools to

create a more effective way of working. Through our activities we strive towards our common vision of a healthy society and to further develop our potential in becoming more skillful and contributing health professionals. – YOU, as public health enthusiasts, form SCOPH and make all this possible! SCOPHians worldwide can look forward to yet another fruitful year within our be-loved Standing Committee… Because together we will keep SCOPH rocking!!!

Louise MulcahySCOPH Director 2009-2010

Louise MulcahySCOPH-Director

2009-2010



Upcoming events

Breast Cancer Awareness MonthBreast Cancer Awareness

4th Monday in October

AIDS Vaccine 2009 Conference19th to 22nd October 2009

Paris, Francehttp://www.hivvaccineenterprise.org/

conference/2009/index.aspx

United States Conference on AIDS (USCA)

29th to 31st October 2009 San Francisco, CA, United States

http://www.2009usca.org

Foreword by the new SCORA-Director

Dear IFMSA friends and SCORA devo-tees :-)I am writing these lines on the train on my

way from Milan to Genoa to help co-facili-

tate the Italian peer education training done

by SISM Italy; and I realize what I love the

most about the work in SCORA and IFMSA.

I started with SCORA 3.5 years ago, I know

how it is to struggle on the local and nation-

al levels, I also know how it is to celebrate

WAD for the first time, I know the joys and

fears of NORAs and LORAs. But I will tell

you what changed my perspective from a

local "patriot".

Money limited me all the time, my mom’s re-

tired, I’ve never met my dad and we all know

how exhaustive medical studies are. But

from time to time on the SCORA server or

thanks to cooperation with local NGOs you

received an e-mail promoting a conference,

a summit or a seminar…, which is FREE of

charge!!!

And thus I started to travel, my personal bor-

ders widened and so did my tolerance and

compassion. How? I love to listen to people,

so I always used the chance of travelling

Branislav ChrenkaSCORA-Director

2009-2010

and meeting people to listen to their stories.

Each of us has their story, some are painful,

some are joyful… But we all have the abil-

ity to listen to each other. And that is what

counts!

These lines are also destined to ALL SCORA

people who are working day by day, putting

their energies, time and effort into a bigger

picture that we're trying to build… Into the

picture of a world free of fear and discrimi-

nations, a world that doesn't know rape and

FGM (Female Genital Mutilation), a world of

equal opportunities, and the list continues…

I wanted to tell you all that you're not alone

in your work even if sometimes, it seems

that way. There are many others like you,

in your region, in your city or village, all you

need is to reach out, meet with them and

share. That is the magical word in our work.

SHARING. Always remember, "Shared sor-

row is 2 times reduced, shared joy is 2 times

bigger!" That’s why I wrote about listening.

Listen to the people, let them share and

dont be afraid to share your own stories,

your fears, your motivation, your work, your

goals, your accomplishments, your ideals,

etc.

By sharing and listening you can discover

the key to happiness…

And also travel; travel anytime you can af-

ford it, search for opportunities for meetings

where transportation, accommodation and

meals are reimbursed.

Dear friends, when I said you are never

alone in your journey I did not lie. For sure I

can tell you that in all SCORA activities you

do, if you need support, advice or help you

can turn to me. My interest goes as far as the

most hidden SCORA peer educator in the

most hidden place of the world, so please

let us use this year 2009-2010 together to

grow up and develop personally, as human

beings. Let us become better people and let

us invest in and help all those who need our

help and assistance, because none of your

effort will be ignored nor forgotten. The more

you give from your heart, truly and warmly,

the more you get back. Thank you for the

time you put into reading these lines.

Yours,

Branislav



Summary

Important stuff to remember: You have till 31st October to submit the

spreadsheet to SCORE-D>> click here for filling in the form

(http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dGY3UVNDT0RRdXVsYV9EL

Vp1UkV3UFE6MA)

On 15th December it will beavailable online!!!

From the SCORE-D

Dear SCORE family, dear IFMSA, In MM09, Tunisia (continued at AM09,

Macedonia) a new SCORE small working

group started: SCORE's role in Scientific

Conferences.

One of the outputs of this SWG was the

creation of a Calendar containing most of

the international student scientific confer-

ences around the world. The calendar will

be color-coded with the colors of the Olym-

pic rings corresponding to the administra-

tive regions of the IFMSA. Each confer-

ence will have the following information if

the header is clicked:

• Name of the conference

• Location of the conference

• Language of the conference

• Dates of the conference

• Theme of the conference

• Who is eligible to participate

• The deadline for submission of ab-

stracts

• Deadlines for registration

• Registration fees

• A short description

• The website

We will also compile this information in a

spreadsheet that will be available online so

that interested students may sort the data

however they want.

The deadlines are as follows:

• September 23 – first email sent to

NORE’s and the NMO mailing-list ask-

ing to provide 1 to 3 conferences in their

country with the above information.

• October 31 – deadline for submissions

from the NORE's

• December 15 – launch the calendar

with all the information

Within the NMO, who chooses this Confer-

ence?

In countries that have SCORE, this job will

be done by the NORE. In countries that

don't have SCORE, this will be made by

the NMO Executive Board. As we know,

there are countries in which there is more

than one very good conference therefore

we extended the maximum number of Con-

ferences per NMO to three. We, however,

still prefer to receive only one Conference

Application Form per NMO.

You can submit your NMO's preferred Con-

ference using this spreadsheet:

http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?

formkey=dGY3UVNDT0RRdXVsYV9ELVp

1UkV3UFE6MA

The Calendar will be advertised by mail,

on the IFMSA website, and in pre-existing

IFMSA publications including SCOREview.

This project will compile the relevant infor-

mation from a large number of conferences

around the world and for the first time, put

it in one place in an accessible way so that

it may be accessed by the 1.2 million medi-

cal students represented in IFMSA and an-

yone else interested in scientific pursuits.

Besides, it will be a good way of promoting

medical students' conferences held in your

country!

Thank you for your cooperation!

Federica Balzarini

SCORE Director 2009-2010

Federica BalzariniSCORE-Director

2009-2010



World Food Day16th October

International Day for the Eradication of Poverty

17th OctoberUnited Nations Day

24th OctoberInternational Day of Science and Peace

11th NovemberInternational Day for Tolerance

(UNESCO)16th November

Universal Children's Day20th November

International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women

25th NovemberInternational Day of Solidarity with the

Palestinian People29th November

Mori MansouriSCORP-Director

2009-2010

From the SCORP-D

I am writing this while deeply touched and inspired by your generous words of congratulations and encouragement over the past few weeks. I'm eternally grateful for the confidence placed in me by your NMOs and I am determined to honour that trust.First, I wish to extend my deepest respect and appreciations to my predecessor, Ms Thatyana Turassa Ernani and her team for all they’ve achieved over the past year. Thanks to your dedication and sup-port, SCORP has grown from strength to strength. You have inspired us, increased our membership and developed new ini-tiatives to further our cause.SCORP is well positioned for another ex-ceptional year in 2009-2010. We will build on the current momentum and will shift into a high gear immediately and expand our work.I would like to begin the year by devel-oping a strategic plan of how you would like to take SCORP into the future. Over the coming month, we will begin a con-sultative process to develop SCORP's strategic direction centred on three key

elements of vision, mission and goals. From these, we will then go on to develop themes, objectives and activities. Your valued participation is key to ensuring the success of this process. I hope when the time comes, you will be generous with your contributions.We are committed to developing sustain-able and effective ways to extend our range of activities to new and low activ-ity groups around the world. We will sup-port African, Asian and American budding SCORP groups through our educational programs, resources and materials, and SCORP International Team support. We recognise that we have much to learn from students in those regions and there-fore it is essential to empower them to take on human rights and peace issues in their countries.We must ensure SCORP visibility by supporting our projects to apply for IFMSA recognition. Together with the DA Projects, I'm willing to provide all the nec-essary support to help projects acquire endorsed and transnational status. This will ensure that such projects can reap the benefits of their involvement with the IFMSA including access to grants and

IFMSA external partners.SCORP highly values first hand experi-ence of its members in the field of human rights and peace. Through our SCORP exchange project, we provide an oppor-tunity to be at the forefront of the battle against human rights abuses and actively cultivate the next generation of human rights leaders. This experience affords the opportunity to promote human rights and raise awareness of the channels through which we can draw attention to cases of human rights abuses.Friends, our success in the last year is the product of your hard work and dedica-tion at the local, national and international levels. I hope you are all as proud as I am of what we, as a team and friends, have accomplished. SCORP is at an incredibly promising moment and as we look for-ward to the year ahead, we should con-tinue to build on our recent successes to-gether. Human rights and SCORP needs you more than ever.

Mori MansouriSCORP-Director 2009-2010



Silva Rukavina(Croatia)[email protected]

Chijioke Kaduru(Ghana)Vice President for Internal [email protected]

Minke van Minde(The Netherlands)Vice President for External [email protected]

Chantal Fenech(Malta)Secretary [email protected]

Francisco J. Reyna Sepulveda(Mexico)[email protected]

Margot Weggemans(The Netherlands)Director on Medical [email protected]

Ali Cankut Tatliparmak(Turkey)Director on Professional [email protected]

Louise Mulcahy(United Kingdom)Director on Public [email protected]

Branislav Chrenka(Slovakia)Director on Reproductive Health incl. [email protected]

Federica Balzarini(Italy)Director on Research [email protected]

Mori Mansouri(United Kingdom)Director on Refugees and [email protected]

Aman A. Yousif(Sudan)RC [email protected]

Fiorella Barbagelata(Peru)RC [email protected]

Mineyoshi Sato(Japan)RC Asia [email protected]

Manel Hafsi(Tunesia)RC Eastern [email protected]

Andrea Labruto(Italy)RC [email protected]

The IFMSA Team of Officials2009-2010The IFMSA Team of Officials consists of the Executive Board, the Standing Committee Direc-tors, the Regional Coordinators, the Liaison Officers, the Support Division Directors and the Super-vising Council.

We are here for you! If you have anything you need help with, want to give some feedback or input, please don’t hesitate to contact us: we are at your disposal!

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Maxime Moulin(France)LO to [email protected]

Lucía Carratalá Castro(Spain-Catalonia)LO to Student [email protected]

Robbert Duvivier(The Netherlands)SCOME [email protected]

Imene Ben Ameur(Tunisia)SCORA [email protected]

Diego Iemmi(Italy)SCORP [email protected]

Florian Stigler(Austria)SCOPH [email protected]

Marija Ljubicic(Serbia)Alumni SD [email protected]

Stefan Buttigieg(Malta)New Technnologies SD [email protected]

Jelena Pavlovic(Serbia)Training SD [email protected]

Alexander Werni(Austria)Publications SD [email protected]

Jésus Mateos del Nozal(Spain)Projects SD [email protected]

Melhim Bou Alwan(Lebanon)Outgoing EB [email protected]

Jessica Valeria Tang Herrera(Peru)Former [email protected]

Sergej Godec(Slovenia)Member with extensive [email protected]

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