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IFMSA March Meeting 2007

March 7th-14th, 2007
Australia

All Medsin members are invited to apply to be part of the 16-strong delegation attending this meeting. In Australia there will be the opportunity to explore issues surrounding rural and remote healthcare, a perfect platform from which to address health inequalities globally.

Along with addressing this theme there will be meetings of the standing committees of IFMSA so if you're interested in public health, refugees and human rights, reproductive health and AIDS, professional exchanges or medical education please do consider coming!

As well as the meeting there will be the opportunity for delegates to attend a 'Pre-GA', which is a 3 day pre meeting workshop. Past topics have included: Peer Education, Global health, Medical Ethics, Malaria and more! The Pre-GA workshops will be decided soon! Delegates are also required to attend a pre Australia preparation day, which will be held in early February.

The registration fee for the GA will be £250 The registration fee for the Pre-GA is not yet set but it's expected to be less than £100.

So if you're interested in going to Australia, learning about global health, meeting people from other cultures and developing skills please fill in the application form (attached to the page) and email it to the committee by midnight on 7th October.

There are always many more applications than places. For that reason you should spend time on your application form - you need to sell yourself. Feel free to change the sizes of the boxes in the word document, but bear in mind that the National Committee have to read lots of forms, so it's not advisable to waffle.

If you have any questions please email Abi and have a look at the work of IFMSA and more information on the conference

Information on IFMSA applications procedure

Some members have raised questions about the way delegates to IFMSA meeting are chosen. The current national committee are aiming to work with the attendees of the AGA to reconcile this issue. However with the cost of attending a GA in Australia the applications for this GA could not wait until after the AGA (7th and 8th Oct Manchester).

In order to make the selection process more transparent we are making available to you what we will be looking for in applications along with a newly designed quota of people attending the meeting. We are also redesigning the current points scoring system, used by past national committees and will make this available to you once it is complete.

Make up of the delegation for a March Meeting

• Leader of delegation (Medsin President)

• 2 National Exchange Officers

• BMA Rep

• Person with knowledge of and experience in projects (VPP if available)

• Person with knowledge of and experience in campaigns (Campaigns Director if available)

The remaining 10 places on the delegation are to be made up of:

• People relatively new to Medsin (30%)

• People with experience in Medsin but who are new to IFMSA (30%)

• People with experience in Medsin and IFMSA (30%)

Any remaining places/unfilled places will be filled by the highest scoring applicants.

The rationale for the 6 initial positions is that it is important to fulfil the role of Medsin within the IFMSA. However following this we believe it is important for people from all areas of medsin to have the opportunity to attend the conference.

What we will be looking for in applications:

• People to have clear aims for whilst they are at the meeting

• People to have concrete goals for their return from the meeting

• How a person will be able to input into Medsin through attending the conference

• Prior involvement in Medsin and the IFMSA

• Enthusiasm

• Ability to work in a team

• A well written application.

Last updated on Sunday 06 April 2008 at 17:50.