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The International Federation of Medical Students’ Associations (IFMSA) is the premier organization worldwide for medical students interested in making a positive change in their schools, communities and the nations as whole. IFMSA-SA is going about the process of becoming the same for Saudi medical students and to serve as the forum for this national cooperation, and uses its model of Local Member Organizations as its medium to accomplish this.

Understanding the local-national-international setup of IFMSA is important. Medical students join National Member Organizations (e.g., IFMSA-SA); National Member Organizations (NMO) join IFMSA. In this manner, the officers of a NMO serve as a liaison between medical students in their country and the international community. IFMSA-SA adopted a motif of building Local Member Organizations (LMOs) at every medical school in Saudi Arabia. The logic is straightforward: Having active groups at every medical school will allow IFMSA-SA to meet the needs of individual medical students throughout the country in a more efficient manner.

Medical students work together at the local level through their Local Member Organizations (LMOs). The LMO leadership team is consisted of an LMO President, and the local officers of the IFMSA Standing Committees and may be other representatives upon need. Ideally, we would like to establish all four Standing Committees within every LMO; for practical reasons, this is not likely. However, whether a LMO can establish all Standing Committees or only one, there is a place for them in IFMSA-SA!

Each school maintains a LMO Representative and Local Officers for each of the Standing Committees. The LMO Representative works with the National Headquarters, and each Local Standing Committee Officer works with their respective National Officer to bring services to the students through their LMO. LMOs also organize activities, programs, meetings, social events and more for students at their medical school.