IFMSA - 07th Eastern Mediterranean Regional Meeting

It is the great honour for the Emirates Medical Students society (EMSS) to organize the 7th Eastern Mediterranean Regional Meeting, from the 27th to the 31st of May 2011 in Dubai.

This regional meeting will have delegates from the International Federation of Medical Students Associations belonging to the region and comes from 13 countries besides the host country.

In this meeting local matters related to the region, their projects and culture which are shared among the masses. This provides an opportunity for students all over the Region to interact and solve issues related to "Healthy Mind - Healthy Body" which is our theme, along with other issues in the region.

The selected theme relates to a current on-going problem that has been undervalued. Health is not just the social wellbeing but the mental wellbeing as well. Seeing the importance of the cause, we decided to label our theme to this cause. We will be having workshops for both Training sessions and to our theme.

The delegates will be taking part in sessions from 6 different standing committees of IFMSA. In these sessions, the participants will exchange views, knowledge and experience in their field of activities and will come up with regional projects organized by the medical students from the various regional countries. To help the participants conduct their activities, the IFMSA officials will conduct training sessions for some important skills.

For the duration of the event, the delegates will be exposed to multicultural learning and experiences. Every single delegate will gain valuable knowledge, opinion, experience & expertise from each other.

This event will also include several workshops related to the “Healthy Mind- Healthy Body” to help the students realise the importance of having a healthy mind to help them in the competitive and demanding field of medicine. This is the era in which we have neglected mental health. Most people do not realise that healthy body involves the mental health.

The working days will also include social activities to introduce the delegates to the other ethnicities within the region and their cultures, traditions and customs. We are confident that this meeting will be very beneficial for future health care professionals.