The IFMSA is an independent, non-political and non-governmental organization that represents medical students' associations, embracing more than 1,000,000 students in 97 countries. It was founded in May 1951 and is run by and for medical students on a non-profit basis.
The IFMSA is officially recognized as a Non Governmental Organization (NGO) within the United Nations (UN), and recognized by the World Health Organization (WHO) as the International Forum for medical students. Its mission statement is
"to offer future physicians a comprehensive introduction to global health issues, to develop culturally sensitive students of medicine, and intent on influencing the transnational inequalities that shape the health of our planet".
LeMSIC.. The World in Your Hand
LeMSIC was founded in the 1960s by active medical students from the American University of Beirut . Unfortunately, with the onset of the Lebanese civil war, all the committee's activities ceased to be reactivated in 1997, with the launching of the Exchange Program and of the IFMSA's 6 th International HIV/AIDS Summer School.
After that milestone-founding year, LeMSIC re-established itself both locally and internationally, and has grown to embrace more than 300 active medical students in its various standing committees:
1. SCOME
2. SCOPE
3. SCOPH
4. SCORA
5. SCORE
6. SCORP
