„Wouldn’t it be great to be able to experience how medical students live a few hundred miles away? To improve general health not only in your own city or country but all over Europe?“
Sofia Ribeiro, EMSA European Integration Director 2010 – 2011

INTRODUCTION TO INTEGRATION:

Wouldn’t it be great to have a good working interaction between medical students within Europe?

We do! - and therefore that is what we are working on:

To bring medical students closer together, to educate or inform people about important

knowledge and skills in life and to improve public health through different manners.

To have a look at a students’ life somewhere else, gives students the opportunity to experience

another environment with a different culture and different habits. The opportunity to have a

look at a students’ life somewhere else, to experience another environment with a different

culture and different habits, enables them to learn from it, or see the good aspects others have

in their curriculum and may think of integrating these aspects within their own university.

They can experience another culture, other traditions and another social life as well. This helps

them to develop themselves not only on educational level, but also on a social one.

Two groups of students live together during a weeks in a co-city and one week in their own

with the chance to experience each other’s lives. Every person has a comrade from the other

city, his or her twin. They stay at their place and have the honor to be their host in return. The

entire group goes on interesting excursions and gets the chance to enrich their life.

Always wanted a life without tobacco? Informing local people about the carbon monoxide

level in their blood along with, giving them some tips on how to quit smoking, is something

our students can do as well. Through the EU campaign „HELP! – For a life without tobacco“,

our members are developing statements and attending international meetings to think further

and enact the ideas that have been developed. In numerous ways, we try to prevent smoking

or help people to quit.

As you can see, EMSA has developed, and is continuingly improving the branch European Integration, to cross more borders!

PROJECTS:

TWINNING PROJECT - exchange program of two weeks, with a group of 20-30 students

Help! - The European Commission tobacco control campaign targeting smoking prevention, cessation and passive smoking

ERASMUS MEDICUS - help in study exchange

HEALTHY ERASMUS - staying healthy during a longer period abroad