58th IFMSA General Assembly August Meeting 2009

IFMSA General Assembly is the biggest international student congress in the world. Each year on the same GA participate more than 800 delegates from 85 country members and other representatives from almost all nongovernmental organizations from the United Nations system who are official partners of IFMSA.

IFMSA General Assembly offers a unique chance of medical students to be involved in ideas exchange and opinions among their colleagues and about questions that concerns public health, medical education, reproductive health, human rights and all global issues actual in the moment. This GA reliefs the development of the global network to all medical workers round the globe. Students can participate in dozen of trainings which affects on forming the cultural and sensitive medical students and future doctors.

Medical students that participate in the IFMSA General Assembly are future leaders in the district of public health and medical protection.

Because of the huge importance of the General Assembly, having the opportunity to organize one is representing a great honor to every country member of IFMSA.

We are proud on the fact that this honor to be the organizers and hosts of the 58th IFMSA-General Assembly in our country correspond with the 58th anniversary of the Macedonian Medical Student’s Association and we are going to celebrate it in 2009.

Motivation for organizing the 58th IFMSA General Assembly

Macedonian Medical Student’s Association-MMSA is a constitutional member of IFMSA more than 50 years. During the past 10 years we were working constantly to improve our capacities and founding constant teams and results, forming firmly base for future needs. Today proudly we can say that our projects have lighter future and our teams are more capable to face any-kind of challenge.

MMSA-Macedonian Medical Student’s Association had its role in IFMSA from the beginning. We never spared our capacities in fulfilling the goals and the development.  

Organizing a meeting with a character of IFMSA-General Assembly represents a great honor for every organization, that is why enormous effort and work, energy, creativity and great and compact team is needed
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In the meantime hosting the Assembly needs huge responsibility for the organizing country.

MMSA-team is highly trained and experienced to organize this General Assembly and we think that there is no doubt that this GA will be the best ever.

General Assembly in Macedonia after only 5 years

August 2004 in Ohrid, Macedonia, MMSA hosted more than 750 medical students when organized 53th IFMSA-General Assembly which was the most adequate / appropriate way of celebrating the 50th anniversary of our membership in IFMSA. The fact that this GA was pronounced one of the biggest and one of the best organized General Assembly ever.
53rd General Assemble was held under the hat of the Macedonian Government, the University of St. Cyril and Methodius-Skopje and many other private companies that recognized the importance of this event as a promotion of the country-Republic of Macedonia and promotion of the MMSA.

Just like than MMSA with great desire expects the colleagues and friends from all over the world with great motivation and enthusiasm for one more gathering.
In only 5 years, which is a miracle (this has never happened in the history of IFMSA) MMSA is ready for one more incredible experience in organizing the IFMSA-General Assembly.

Today, pleasant political and social situation in Macedonia allow us to believe that we can use our strength and capacity on the right way, as we will be in opportunity to offer IFMSA and our friends round the globe another one not- forgettable General Assembly.

The support we had in the past years from all relevant state institutions from health, education and science gives us a strong belief that we can contribute with quality on the General Assembly and achieve remarkable results.

Macedonian Medical Student’s Association-MMSA thinks that our country Republic of Macedonia with all hers natural beauties and cultural heritage has the opportunity to offer unique experience to our colleagues.

The theme of this GA will be “Investing in Health of Children and Youth”, a very important issue for the future physicians regarding that providing adequate health care and preserving child rights and human rights, to the ever-expanding population of the world is an indispensable task,
Aware that initiative must be taken by those with the resources, vision and knowledge to make an impact in the world this theme was chosen directly by the NMO’s of IFMSA.

Our GA and our Pre-GA will be hosted at the eternal city of Ohrid, at the Desaret Hotel Resort, adequate congress center with high‐tech equipment.

The arrival day for Pre-GA will be the 1st of August 2009 and the departure day will be the 5th of August 2009; day of the beginning of the GA which will end the 10th of August 2009.
From the 11th of August, there will be amazing post-GA tours, which will last 3- days.

If there are any questions, concerns or something else, feel free to contact us in anytime,

Sincerely yours,

Nenad Lazarov – MMSA Macedonia President - Co-OCP of IFMSA GA AM 2009

Aleksandar Karevski – Seceratry General - Co-OCP of IFMSA GA AM 2009