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IFMSA-USA Mission
Statement
Our mission is to empower future
physicians with a sense of social responsibility locally and globally.
As a national medical student organization, IFMSA-USA promotes
international health awareness among U.S. medical students through
education, exchange, and activism while fostering a spirit of
international cooperation among medical students worldwide.
IFMSA-USA is the USA national
affiliate of the
International
Federation of Medical Students' Associations (IFMSA), a global
community of medical students with over one million medical student
members active in
88 countries.
Since 1951, IFMSA has provided an important co-curricular opportunity
for medical students worldwide to gain exposure to critical
international health issues, and to become advocates at a young issues
that they will face later as practitioners and global health leaders.
Nationally, IFMSA-USA
has been the USA national affiliate of IFMSA since 1992. IFMSA-USA
is governed through a Board of Trustees... and is led by a group of
National Officers, a group of medical students that maintain primary responsibility for
representing IFMSA-USA to IFMSA, and for bringing the opportunities
available through the global community of IFMSA to the medical student
members of IFMSA-USA. Get involved by
learning
about what our National Officers do! Support is offered to the
medical student leaders of IFMSA-USA through the IFMSA-USA National
Headquarters.
Locally, medical
schools maintain individual chapters, or "Local Member
Organizations," that orient their activities around international
health issues.
Please see if your
school is listed and let us know if your chapter and contact
information is still accurate. If you are interested in becoming a
contact person for IFMSA-USA, please
E-mail the
IFMSA-USA National Headquarters! Individual medical student members
join IFMSA
through a one-time membership fee, and participate in the many
international opportunities available through our group.
IFMSA acts globally,
nationally, and locally to raise awareness of transnational health
issues and to make the world a better place.
Please write to us if you
have any questions:
info@ifmsa-usa.org
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Our
mission is to offer future physicians a comprehensive introduction to
global health issues. Through our programming and opportunities, we
develop culturally sensitive students of medicine, intent on influencing
the transnational inequalities that shape the health of our planet.