Motivation letter From

IFMSA-Thailand Candidature for the

IFMSA General Assembly March Meeting 2010 Host country

On behalf of the International Federation of Medical Student‘s Association-Thailand

I would like to invite IFMSA and medical students from all over the world to feel new experience of the General Assembly (GA) in Asia hosting by one of the most intriguing cities in the world, Bangkok.

The IFMSA’s GA, in our opinion, is the most attractive, valuable and unique conference that is worth for all medical students to attend .As a platform, GA has created a wonderful opportunity for medical students from all continents to share experiences, contribute ideas, and make collaborations in order to make the world a healthier and better place to live. More importantly, GA offers the great opportunity among medical students to create friendships beyond frontiers.

Thai medical students first joined the IFMSA’s GA in 2002 and were inspired to found IFMSA in Thailand. Since then, IFMSA Thailand has been enthusiastically active in a number of IFMSA activities. We are cordially engaged in working with IFMSA to establish a strong IFMSA organization in Thailand and create a diplomatic bridge to medical students in various geographies. However In the Asia Pacific region we currently have only 13 IFMSA members . It therefore would be inspiring to hold a GA once again in the Asia Pacific region to facilitate the travel and convince more active countries to join IFMSA. We are proud to present our exciting Bangkok to host the GA in 2010 and let the world learn more about the beautiful Thailand. We strongly believe that as a host we will provide a friendly atmosphere to exchange the knowledge across from Eastern to Western regions. We are confident that we will organize a successful GA and ready to represent a host city of the Asia Pacific region.

Several reasons place Thailand as a suitable candidate for the host country of IFMSA March meeting in 2010. We have many experienced members who envision ideas about GA. In the past 7 years there are many Thai GA delegates and all of them are ready to show their hospitalities. We also experienced the successful arrangement of IFMSA meetings in Thailand such as the Asia Pacific Regional meeting 2005 at Pattaya and the ACTION Project 2008 at Phuket. We presently have a large number of new energetic members and organizing committee who are currently working hard to support our candidacy. This would ensure our capabilities to host and organize such an international event.

Thailand is best known as one of the most popular tourist destinations. Like no other place on earth, Thailand demonstrates diversities of attractive places including the historic capital of Ayutthaya, the Grand Palace, the colorful street markets, the magnificent natural scenery of Chiang-mai and the white sand beach of phuket. Thailand is also famed for its

unique traditional cuisine and styles. Bangkok, one of the world’s most vibrant and charming cities, is definitely the perfect destination to explore.Situated in the heart of mainland Southeast Asia, Thailand serves as a gateway to Asia with the new and largest airport terminal, Suvarnabhumi International Airport. The cost of living in Thailand is relatively inexpensive and reasonable. We are of course well known as a shopping paradise for shoppers. Last but not least, the smiles of Thai people always welcome visitors with gracious hospitality.

We are thus highly motivated to candidate Thailand as the host country for the IFMSA General Assembly March Meeting 2010. It will be a great challenge for us to host this honorable event. We promise to put our best effort to organize this coming March Meeting 2010 through our experienced and enthusiast committees and host this event in the beautiful and warmly courtesy country to make this meeting become one of the most memorable GA ever.

Looking forward to see you soon in Bangkok for MM2010

Sincerely yours,

Pennapa Kaweewongprasert

Manita Charanwetprasert

Co-President of the Organizing Committee

Candidature for Hosting IFMSA’s March Meeting 2010

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