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Tiromed Welcomes the Asian Medical Students’ Association!

Thursday, September 20th, 2007

We’d like to welcome our 7th Association to the Tiromed Community: the the Asian Medical Students’ Association!

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The Asian Medical Students’ Association is an organization of medical students from all over Asia and Australia. AMSA was first established in 1979, and the first conference was held in Mahidol University of Thailand. AMSA’s mission is to promote scientific activity, prepare qualified medical professionals for the future, and build and maintain relationships among AMSA’s counterparts around Asia-Oceania.

AMSA has 10 regional members representing Australia, Thailand, Korea, Japan, Malaysia, Cambodia, Indonesia, Hong Kong, Taiwan, The Philippines, Pakistan, Bangladesh and the United Kingdom. We encourage you to visit the new AMSA page on Tiromed and to show your support by wearing an AMSA badge:

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More About AMSA:

The AMSA Vision is Knowledge, Action and Friendship. Three areas we continuously strive to further in our members and peers and through our organisational Mission:

Knowledge: we promote scientific and medical activities to increase and expand our knowledge whilst training to become the medical professionals of the future.

Action: as medical students, we are concerned for the community around us and endeavour to do things for the benefit and improvement of our fellow citizens.

Friendship:
as future doctors, we aim to build and maintain a good relationship among our colleagues of the Asia-Pacific and beyond.

The Asian Medical Students’ Association is a peak representative organisation for medical students from across Asia, the Asia-Pacific and beyond. Training doctors from 11 Member Nations and 2 Associate Nations combine to share knowledge, undertake activities and social services and create international and trans-continental friendships.

AMSA was officially founded in Manilla, Philippines in 1985 and from this day has been an active, dynamic and exciting student-led, not-for-profit, non-political organisation.

Today, with members and friends spanning the globe AMSA has an active student-exchange program, regularly undertakes national and regional projects, provides humanitarian assistance at times of need, produces quarterly student publications and liaises with the World Health Organisation, the Association of Medical Doctors of Asia and many other international and regional medical student organisations.

Since it was first established in 1979 and the first conference was held in Mahidol University of Thailand the Asian Medical Students’ Conferences have been a key focus for the organisation. Now held biannually in January/February and July/August these events see over 700 students from across the world combine to learn from each other, teach their fellow peers and develop lasting friendships.

-Team Tiromed :)


Tiromed Welcomes the Student Osteopathic Medical Association!

Thursday, September 13th, 2007

We’d like to welcome our 6th Association to the Tiromed Community: the Student Osteopathic Medical Association!

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The purpose of the Student Osteopathic Medical Association, the student affiliate organization of the American Osteopathic Association, is to promote osteopathic ideals and unity within the profession, to educate future osteopathic physicians, and to establish and to maintain lines of communication among healthcare professionals in an ongoing effort to improve the quality of healthcare.

SOMA has over 8200 members and includes 23 national chapters, one at each college of osteopathic medicine and represents nearly 80% of osteopathic medical students in the U.S. The official SOMA website is www.studentdo.com. We encourage everyone to visit the new SOMA profile page: www.tiromed.com/soma, and to show your support by wearing an SOMA badge:

SOMA

-Team Tiromed :)


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