ukAM07 What on Earth happened

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ukAM07What on Earth happened?!
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Presidents Plenaries in a Nutshell

• Elections for new IFMSA TOM
• MM08 Presentation
• Elections for AM08 hosts5 countries bid!
• Policy statements
• - Who4WHO - Canterbury Declaration
• Healthy Planet - Philadelphia Consensus Statement
• A lack of bylaws!
• An 8 hour plenary session! ?
• And an incident with a kettle!

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SCOPH

• Standing Committee on Public Health.
• SWGs - Malaria, Neglected Diseases, TB,
  Paediatric projects, Healthy Ageing, the
  Canterbury declaration, Pharmaware,
• Workshops on TBH internationally
• Presentations from Liaison officers, WHO UNESCO
• Road safety grand discussion
• Resources posters, CDs, videos and promotional
  materials, handbooks and manuals.

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SCORP

• PEACE TEST
• AIMS- Raise awareness, stimulate discussion,
  challenge attitudes of high school children
• Questionnaire- 20 Qs Violence, War, Conflict
  Resolution, Human Rights, Tolerance
• BASIS - Theory of Moral Disengagement, Albert
  Bandura
• DISCUSSION- no right answers/ judgement.
• Collate, analyse data.

• Immigration
• Diverse
• Personal Development
• Interest, Responsibilities
• Community Tolerance

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SCOPE What was achieved?

• Contracts Fair
• Signed 84 contracts with 32 different countries
• 12 more contracts than last year(!)
• Negotiated new exciting exchange destinations
• Small Working Groups
• Improving the database
• Academic quality
• Marketing exchanges
• Problem solving

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SCORA

• Tackling delicate subjects
• Hetero-normativity
• UNAIDS Dr Joy Backory
• Media and HIV/AIDS MTV Staying Alive
• WHO STI/HIV/AIDS programme
• International AIDS vaccine initiative
• Rape discussion
• SWGs - empowerment of women, peer education
  reproductive neoplasms

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Training

• Pre GA Training Old Trainers Workshop
• Ideas sharing
• Networking
• FUN!!
• GA
• Trainers
• Participants
• Training Taskforce

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Campaigns

• Medsin SWG discussed how to make campaigns a
  priority
• Had a great debate about the role of Big Pharma
  and drug pricing
• Our ukAM priorities were
• Healthy Planet
• UAEM
• PharmAware
• Who4Who
• T-shirts, project stall, presentations at SCOPH

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Campaign Policies

• The AEM theme raised loads of great PharmAware
  campaign issues
• Successfully passed the Philadelphia Consensus
  Statement (UAEM)
• Canterbury Declaration calling for better AEM
  passed (PharmAware, UAEM, StopAIDS etc)

• Environmental policy failed
• No pharma-funding policy taken away
• Who4Who policy failed
• BUT lessons learnt, global pharma team formed and
  new directions are being investigated.

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SWGs

• All delegates contributed to Medsin's 10 year
  plan
• Split into branches, projects and campaigns
• Came back together to report ideas
• Delegates also chose 1 of the following 4 to
  attend
• Improving GAs and Conferences
• Priority Campaigns how to make them a priority
• Training
• Strengthening Support for Branches
• Minutes were written up which will contribute to
• The concerted effort to continue to increase the
  voice and influence of Medsins members (we
  grassroots!)
• All National Committee meetings and decision
  making
• Further SWGs on similar topics