Text: Janna-Lina Kerth, 9th. Aachen; Hendrik Napierala, 5th semester, Berlin
It's still early, it's cold too, we're traveling by train, across Germany, again. You can get around with the bvmd, and Deutsche Bahn does good business with us. We wear red bvmd sweaters and have backpack with us. We have to change trains in Frankfurt. Suddenly we see this red in the crowd, then it stands next to us on the platform. We speak to you. Are you also. . .? Oh yes, the bvmd! We'll have coffee. Do you also know. . .? Oh yes, he's already specialist! You know what. . .? More stories. On the next train we sit next to each other.
Commitment can connect. What at first sounds like nice anecdote about sweaters and coffee is actually much more: The idea of connecting medical students and creating an organization emerged soon after the Second World War and was revolutionary. Erwin Odenwald, the second President of the International Federation of Medical Students' Associations (IFMSA), drove through bombed Germany to Denmark, where he worked on projects with young students from all over Europe. Commitment united. At the beginning of the 1950s, medical students dared to do the almost unthinkable: common Europe, common world, representation for all medical students. Commitment is visionary!
Even today, many years later, commitment in the bvmd is exactly that. The situation in Germany, in Europe, has changed - we travel comfortably by train - but our work is still shaped by the idea of new beginnings. This is what our projects stand for: They are non-commercial, voluntary, ambitious, open to everyone and can be expanded with new interesting initiatives at any time.
The success story
The bvmd ended in May 2004 Medical Conference (FTM) and the German Internship Exchange (dfa). Since then she has been the voice of all medical students in Germany and represents their interests - vis-à-vis universities, medical associations and politics. All interested parties from the bvmd local groups - the student councils - meet three to four times year for the general assembly. It elects the eight-member board that heads the bvmd for one year.
Text: Janna-Lina Kerth, 9th. Aachen; Hendrik Napierala, 5th semester, Berlin
It's still early, it's cold too, we're traveling by train, across Germany, again. You can get around with the bvmd, and Deutsche Bahn does good business with us. We wear red bvmd sweaters and have backpack with us. We have to change trains in Frankfurt. Suddenly we see this red in the crowd, then it stands next to us on the platform. We speak to you. Are you also. . .? Oh yes, the bvmd! We'll have coffee. Do you also know. . .? Oh yes, he's already specialist! You know what. . .? More stories. On the next train we sit next to each other.
Commitment can connect. What at first sounds like nice anecdote about sweaters and coffee is actually much more: The idea of connecting medical students and creating an organization emerged soon after the Second World War and was revolutionary. Erwin Odenwald, the second President of the International Federation of Medical Students' Associations (IFMSA), drove through bombed Germany to Denmark, where he worked on projects with young students from all over Europe. Commitment united. At the beginning of the 1950s, medical students dared to do the almost unthinkable: common Europe, common world, representation for all medical students. Commitment is visionary!
Even today, many years later, commitment in the bvmd is exactly that. The situation in Germany, in Europe, has changed - we travel comfortably by train - but our work is still shaped by the idea of new beginnings. This is what our projects stand for: They are non-commercial, voluntary, ambitious, open to everyone and can be expanded with new interesting initiatives at any time.
The success story
The bvmd ended in May 2004 Medical Conference (FTM) and the German Internship Exchange (dfa). Since then she has been the voice of all medical students in Germany and represents their interests - vis-à-vis universities, medical associations and politics. All interested parties from the bvmd local groups - the student councils - meet three to four times year for the general assembly. It elects the eight-member board that heads the bvmd for one year.
But the bvmd is much more than that! Within the “Standing Committee on Professional Exchange / Research Exchange” of the International Federation of Medical Student Associations, IFMSA, it sends almost 400 medical students abroad for clinical traineeships and research stays and at the same time accepts 350 foreign students at German faculties. It also offers the opportunity to participate in development projects.
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