Media Release
Mangalore, Feb 23: In a move to work in unison with medical students across the country, the Indian Medical Students' Association has been formed. It is arguably the largest student NGO organisation where members range from Kashmir to Kanyakumari.
The Organization is headquartered in Kolkata. Details can be found on www.imsaindia.org.in.
About the Organization
India today is home to about 260 medical colleges that churn out about 30,000 undergraduate students a year. At any given time, there are a total of about 100,000 undergraduate medical students in India. An urgent need is felt to establish a be-all-and-end-all umbrella organization for all medical students in India. Hence, we come forward with the establishment of the Indian Medical Students' Association.
Mission
"To endow a common platform for representation to all the Medical Students of the Nation irrespective of the University they study in, grades, age, sex, caste, and region they belong to."
This student-governed, national association will act as a common platform for all the medical students across the nation. Such Medical Students' Association in other nations of continents like Australia, Europe, and America exists for the past 40 to 50 years. Although medical professionals are probably the most responsible of all people, they are rarely empowered or inspired, as students, to stand up and fulfill their social commitments.
Aims and Objectives
A. To organize Annual Medical Conventions and other Medical conferences.
B. To promote the interest and welfare of medical students with support from the experienced achievers of medical field.
C. To empower students with soft skills like management, leadership, and conflict management at a young age to ease the transition from student-doctors to medical-professionals.
D. To promote understanding in medical and health problems as well as to share experiences in solving them
E. To uphold humanitarian ideals and medical ethics
F. To create National as well as International contacts among Medical Students and hence, increase networking and encourage cooperation amongst the future doctors.
G. To foster unity and promote profound inter-personal relationships amongst its members
H. To promote research programmes and attitude among medical students.
I. To carry out nationwide mass health campaigns related to health problems like epidemics and natural calamities of the Nation
J. To promote and encourage medical youth to fulfil their duties towards Society by providing Social Service.
K. Helping poor Students for Educational Development through Sponsorship Assistance.
Goal
1. Empowering Medical Students with skills that will help them develop a better INDIA while they become professionals.
2. Promoting the feeling of ONENESS amongst all the medical students.
3. Providing a common platform for their representation irrespective of their University, Grades, Age, Caste, Sex, and Region.
4. Increasing awareness about Global Health and aboriginal health issues.
5. To impart knowledge about how to plan their future by helping them to reshape their vision and perspectives of life and their goals. Medical, being a challenging field has dragged many new admitted students into depression because of ignorance on how to cope up with the social and the mental burden they have to face.
6. Create awareness about the recent job vacancies, admission seats' vacancies, and other such issues.
7. Expose them to all the educational mal practices that are going on thus prevent them from ruining their career.
8. Providing Indian Medical Students with national as well as international contacts. A major aim shared by our founder members is to smooth the transition from student-doctor into medical professional.