Americas RM 2016 Survival Kit - English

MontevideoJanuary 17th-22nd

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Content EditorsIgnacia Alvarez - ChileManuel Mendive - UruguayLucia Laborda - Uruguay

ProofreadingDiego Mendoza - MexicoFrancisco Parra - MexicoLucas Rodriguez - BrazilFilipe Levy - BrazilCarlos Acosta - BrazilRodrigo Roa - BrazilAline D. Khatchikian - CanadaMauro Henrique - Brazil

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Invitation LetterRegional Director for the Americas

Regional TeamMeet the Americas Team

Organizing CommitteeMeet the amazing Organizing Committee

Montevideo, UruguayAll you should know about Uruguay

Pre - Regional MeetingJanuary 14th - 17th

Regional MeetingJanuary 17th - 22nd

Accomodation & VenueWhere it all happens

TransportationMove around Montevideo

Social ProgramWhen the sun comes down...

Theme EventHealth Equity in the Americas

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Dear IFMSA Friends,

It is with great pleasure that I am inviting you all to go through the survival kit for our Americas Regional Meeting 2016, Montevideo, Uruguay. This survival kit is the outcome of great cooperation between your Americas Regional Team led by your Regional Director, Ignacia Alvarez. Going through the following pages will support you deliver the best representation of your National Member Organization in our Regional Meeting.

The countdown has started to the beginning of our Regional Meeting and your incredible Regional Team along with the extraordinary Organizing Committee members are sparing no time nor effort in preparing you a lifetime experience. Pack your luggage, book your tickets and get excited because we can’t wait to meet you soon.

With the best wishes for safe trips and an extremely productive meeting.

Karim M. Abuzied IFMSA President 2015-2016

Karim M. AbuziedIFMSA President2015 - [email protected]

Invitation Letter

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Invitation Letter

Amazing IFMSA friends

It is amazing for me to have the opportunity to invite you all to our Regional Meeting, the main and most important event of our amazing region of the Americas.

Since the moment I joined IFMSA (a while ago…) I immediately fell in love with our region and its great potential. I believe that our region is a great mix of cultures, variety, ideas, people and backgrounds, and that gives us a unique distinction within the IFMSA.

Our region has gone so far in the last couple of years: having a larger representation in our broad American geography, building strong connection between our members and creating for them a special sense of identity, an identity that makes me really proud.

Our Regional Meeting will be the instance to gather, meet and share around our great passion, for our region and for the IFMSA. This will be an opportunity to connect and build long lasting friendships, to learn, and to give something back to your national member organizations once back home.

Therefore, I invite you to enjoy every second of the Regional Meeting, a meeting prepared with so much love and passion by the Organizing Committee, the Regional team and the IFMSA Team of Officials.

I’m very excited to meet you there!

Ignacia Alvarez Argaluza Americas Regional Director

On behalf of the Americas team

Ignacia Alvarez ArgaluzaAmericas Regional Director2015 - [email protected]

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Meet your Regional Team

Ignacia Alvarez ArgaluzaAmericas Regional [email protected]

Diego Mendoza DíazInvolvement Assistant

[email protected]

Joel Rondón RodríguezGeneral [email protected]

Ivan Carnaval DiazInternal Development Assistant

[email protected]

Francisco ParraCapacity Building Regional [email protected]

NMO: IFMSA-ChileFavorite Food: Empanadas, SushiFavorite Colour: PurpleHobbies: Naps and travelling

NMO: APEMH-PeruFavorite Food: Chifa (Mix of Peruvian and Chinese food)Favorite Colour: BlueHobbies: Web design and travelling

NMO: IFMSA-MexicoFavorite Food: EnchiladasFavorite Colour: BlueHobbies: Camping

NMO: IFMSA-MexicoFavorite Food: Discada, Tacos al PastorFavorite Colour: BlueHobbies: Biking, reading, watching movies and sleepping

NMO: IFMSA-PeruFavorite Food: Ceviche de MeroFavorite Colour: PurpleHobbies: Travelling, reading and inter cultural learning

NMO: IFMSA-BrazilFavorite Food: LasagnaFavorite Colour: White and blueHobbies: Cooking

NMO: DENEM-BrazilFavorite Food: Arepas and AjiacoFavorite Colour: Yellow, SCORA redHobbies: Guitar, dancing, drink coffee, sin-ging in the shower, looking the stars, crying in romantic comedy/romance films and reading

NMO: IFMSA-QuebecFavorite Food: Khorovatz and tabbou-leh (Armenian food)Favorite Colour: PurpleHobbies: Discovering new brunch restaurants, films, TV, chilling in my pjs at home with my family

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Lucas RodriguesSCOME Regional [email protected]

Filipe LevySCORP Regional Assistant

[email protected]

Carlos Andres AcostaSCORA Regional [email protected]

Rodrigo Enrique RoaSCOPE Regional Assistant

[email protected]

Aline D. KhatchikianSCOPH Regional [email protected]

Mauro Henrique CamachoSCORE Regional Assistant

[email protected]

NMO: IFMSA-MexicoFavorite Food: Discada, Tacos al PastorFavorite Colour: BlueHobbies: Biking, reading, watching movies and sleepping

NMO: IFMSA-PeruFavorite Food: Ceviche de MeroFavorite Colour: PurpleHobbies: Travelling, reading and inter cultural learning

NMO: IFMSA-BrazilFavorite Food: Feijoada, Maria IsabelFavorite Colour: Blue, green, white, redHobbies: Play the guitar, dancing and do nothing

NMO: IFMSA-BrazilFavorite Food: ArepasFavorite Colour: Green, SCOPE blueHobbies: Playing football, and nowa-days, IFMSA work

NMO: IFMSA-BrazilFavorite Food: All foodFavorite Colour: Blue (50% of his T-shirts are blue)Hobbies: Travelling, being judgmental

NMO: IFMSA-BrazilFavorite Food: LasagnaFavorite Colour: White and blueHobbies: Cooking

NMO: DENEM-BrazilFavorite Food: Arepas and AjiacoFavorite Colour: Yellow, SCORA redHobbies: Guitar, dancing, drink coffee, sin-ging in the shower, looking the stars, crying in romantic comedy/romance films and reading

NMO: IFMSA-QuebecFavorite Food: Khorovatz and tabbou-leh (Armenian food)Favorite Colour: PurpleHobbies: Discovering new brunch restaurants, films, TV, chilling in my pjs at home with my family 07

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Lucía Laborda

Chair [email protected] Tel: +598 96 41 78 21

Álvaro Dendi

Vice Chair [email protected]

Joaquín Lainés

Secretary General [email protected]

Tamara Melián

Pre- RM Coordinator [email protected]

Fiorella Vuan

RM Coordinator [email protected]

Ignacio Cardozo

Treasurer [email protected] Tel: +598 94 54 72 88

Manuel Mendive & Santiago Arrotcharen Logistics [email protected] Tel: +598 96 90 00 06

Sabrina Damonte

Registrations & Visa Coordinator [email protected]

Ignacio Jabib

Social Program Coordinator [email protected]

Nicolás Requena

Publicity Coordinator [email protected]

Meet the Organizing Committee

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Uruguay awaits for you!

Officially the Eastern Republic of Uruguay (Spanish: República Oriental del Uruguay), is a country in the southeastern region of South America. It is bordered by Argentina to its west and Brazil to its north and east, with the Atlantic Ocean to the south and southeast.

Uruguay is home to 3.3 million people, of whom 1.8 million live in the metropolitan area of its capital and largest city, Montevideo.

Uruguay is ranked first in Latin America in democracy, peace, lack of corruption, quality of living, e-Government and equality. Uruguay is the first in South America when it comes to press freedom, size of the middle class, prosperity and security.

On a per capita basis, Uruguay contributes more troops to United Nations peacekeeping missions than any other country.

The Economist named Uruguay “country of the year” in 2013, acknowledging the innovative policy of legalizing the production, sale and consumption of cannabis. Same-sex marriage and abortion are also legal, leading Uruguay to be regarded as one of the most liberal nations in the world, and one of the most socially developed, outstanding regionally and performing well globally on personal rights, tolerance and inclusion issues.

About Uruguay

Uruguay’s entire population is the same as central London’s.

Uruguay has the longest anthem in the world.

The name ‘Uruguay’ comes from the Uruguay River, which is thought to mean ‘river of the painted birds’ in the Guarani language.

Uruguay is the only country whose name in English has the same letter three times in its first five.

Uruguay is the only country in Latin America, which is entirely outside the tropics.

Uruguay is the only country that keeps track of 100 per cent of its cattle.

In December 2013, Uruguay became the world’s first country to legalize the marijuana trade.

Uruguay won the first FIFA World Cup in 1930 defeating Argentina 4-2 in the final.

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UYU Uruguayan

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1 US Dolar (USD) = 27.092 UYU

1 Euro (EUR) = 32.250 UYU

1 Argentine Peso(ARS) = 3.058 UYU

1 Brazilian Real (BRL) = 7.896 UYU

1 Chilean Peso (CLP) = 0.0423 UYU

1 Mexican Peso(MXN) = 1.770 UYU

Currency

More Currencies on http://finance.yahoo.com/currency-converter

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Banknote Colors Obverse Reverse Watermark

20 pesos Uruguayos

Dark green and violet

Juan Zorilla de San Martín

Allegory “Legend of the Fatherland”

José Gervasio Artigas

50 pesos Uruguayos

Black, red and violet

José Pedro VarelaVarela monument in Montevideo


100 pesos Uruguayos

Purple and dark brown

Eduardo Fabini God PanJosé Gervasio Artigas

200 pesos Uruguayos

Dark brown and violet

Pedro Figari“Baile Anntiguo” (Old Dance)


500 pesos Uruguayos

Blue-gray, violet and pale red

Alfredo Vázquez Acevedo

University of the Repu-blic in Montevideo


1000 pesos Uruguayos

Brown and olive-green

Juana de Ibarbourou IbarbourouJosé Gervasio Artigas

2000 pesos Uruguayos

Gray and light olive-green

Damaso Antonio Larrañaga

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About Uruguay

Average price of items

Water bottle average price (0.33 Lt): 31 UYU Coke average price (600 ml): 35 UYU Big Mac average price: 140 UYU Domestic beer average price: 80 UYU Cappuccino average price: 77 UYU

Important facts

Smoke Free Places

Smoking is prohibited in all enclosed public places, enclosed workplaces, and public transportation. In addition, smoking is forbidden within the outdoor premises of health and educational institutions. The hotel rooms and public spaces are smoke free. You will only be able to smoke on outdoors, designated areas.

Note: Even though we strongly recommend having a non-smoker Regional Meeting, if your informed decision is to do so, we would like to remind you that tobacco prices in Uruguay are very expensive due to high taxes placed by the Government to reduce tobacco consumption.

Marijuana in Uruguay

Uruguayan citizens and registered residents living here for at least two years will be able to buy up to 40g of marijuana per month from the pharmacy (not available for tourists). Personal use of cannabis has been decriminalizzed in Uruguay as far back as 1974. Selling is illegal. If you are wondering, Uruguay’s marijuana laws regarding public consumption are similar to the tobacco laws.

Electricity plugs

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Pre - Regional MeetingJanuary 14th -17th

Pre-RM Agenda

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Training Old Trainers (TOT)

Gustavo Fitas Vice-President for Capacity Building 2015-16 [email protected]

From an objective point of view, a person who has already undergone a TNT, a trainer, can develop his training capacity through two different ways. The first is simply to increase the non-formal education knowledge. This can be done with his peers (other trainers which have undergone different training experiences) or by involving an external - like a training company or a professional trainer. On the other hand, a trainer can expand his training capacity by learning how to do something himself. In the TOT the idea is to focus the energy on directly on the second developing way and, to indirectly promote the first developing way. With this strategy, we can assure that all participants end up with a satisfactory experience.

The idea is to have specific TOT topics, such as TOT on Advocacy, Project Management, Leadership, and so on.

Pre-RM Workshops

Training New Trainers (TNT)

Francisco Parra Americas Capacity Building Regional Assistant [email protected]

TNT is focused for IFMSA members with the interest of knowing the “how” of a process. Most people with an idea of a project for example know what they want to do and they might even know why exactly they want to do it. Through non-formal education, the idea is reach the tools of how to do it. In the case of Trainers, at the end of a TNT not only should they have a vast knowledge on that “how”, but, most importantly, they should know how to retransmit that knowledge to participants in a training session.

The workshop is achieved in three days; time in which the participants will have the time to complete approximately 13 training sessions with all types of content. Besides pure non-formal education material, the aim is also to help the participant develop themselves and understand the Training philosophy. To ensure the achievement of this last point, the TNT participants will also be put in direct contact with the TOT participants; so as to learn from them

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Maternal Health and Safe Abortion

Carles Pericas SCORA Director [email protected]

Michalina Drejza Liaison Officer for Sexual and reproductive health issues, [email protected]

Carlos Acosta SCORA Regional Assistant [email protected]

This workshop seeks to build on the successful trainings we have had on Maternal Health and Safe Abortion in many of the regional meetings and previous General Assemblies. The workshop is modeled on the training that the SCORA International Team and Americas’ medical students have previously received, and is focused on expanding the number of IFMSA members who are trained on delivering the curriculum IFMSA developed with Ipas. The focus of this workshop is to advance the development of a network of safe abortion trainers and advocates within the Federation.

The training covers several related topics; such as: human, sexual and reproductive rights; abortion laws and policies; barriers to access care, including stigma; safe abortion methods; and identification and referral of women with abortion-related complications. The curriculum also includes information and activities on values clarification for abortion attitude.

Public Health Training

Skander Essafi Liason Officer for Public Health issues [email protected]

Aline D. Khatchikian SCOPH Regional Assistant [email protected]

The IFMSA Americas Region is a growing region with many Public Health problems that Medical Students are addressing from different perspectives. The faces of health and disease are rapidly changing with each passing year and solutions to tackle this new and ever changing challenges should change innovatively following the same pace. This can only be done by strong leadership and appropriate knowledge.

We, as medical students, present current and future health leaders and as such we must be equipped with right tools and posses right knowledge to successfully lead our fellow medical students, as well as the general population.

As we said it’s a necessity for medical students to have knowledge about public health, solutions to public health issues, but also to be equipped with right leadership skills to tackle growing health problems ¬ locally, nationally and globally. Unfortunately, this is rarely taught in medical schools and as such it is our duty to bring the issues we face in Public Health to our fellow medical students and equip

them with right tools to tackle them.

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Global health within Exchanges

Omar Cherkaoui SCOPE Director [email protected]

Mauro Henrique Camacho SCORE Regional Assistant [email protected]

This year SCOPE and SCORE joined forces once more to bring a workshop related to the exchanges for the Pre-Regional Meeting. For the Americas Regional Meeting, we are proposing a workshop on “Global Health within Exchanges”, after its clear success in the Asia-Pacific Regional Meeting this year. Also, as a similar workshop was held last year in Colombia, we would like to propose this one to offer more capacity building for new members.

Having this workshop for the preRM provides us with the unique opportunity to improve the workflow in our Standing Committees as well as to train new members. Throughout the past terms, SCOPE & SCORE Regional Assistants have had the same feeling: A need for a training on Exchanges in the region is becoming more and more important and urgent. We, as Exchange Directors focusing this year on Capacity Building and Academic Quality, would like to reach exchange officers at the local level, propose them this training to improve their capacity of handling a perfect exchange program, with a real focus on the academic quality of it.

One of the biggest problems we face in the exchanges is a lack of continuity and evaluation. SCOPE and SCORE are both highly professional organizations- we are basically running an international business, but still we are losing an incredible majority of ideas, projects and even defined plans through the constant handovers we are facing. If we count it, almost every month

happens a transition at a point in a country- if it is a LEO/LORE or a NEO/NORE- or even just a contact person.

All of these issues can be included in one topic/project that can be implemented to every NMOs before the departure of the students in order for them to have the proper knowledge and preparation within these areas, which is the Pre-Departure Training/Pre-Exchange Training. Therefore, we would like to raise the PDT/PET itself during the preRM.

LEAD (Leadership, Empowerment , Advocacy and Development)

Elias Ortega Americas Regional Coordinator 2013-14 [email protected]

Maria Jose Cisneros Americas Regional Coordinator 2014-15

LEAD is an innovative 3 day workshop directed to IFMSA national and regional leaders. It is based on working on 4 main streams of skills (Leadership skills, Empowerment of members, Advocacy and Development of LCs & NMOs) in order to improve the capacity of those members in leading their local committees and NMOs.

The Goals and objectives: are to strengthen NMO leadership within IFMSA and Empower NMO leaders in: Decision making, Conflict & team Management, Project management, External Representation, Learn Advocacy skills and strategies, it also aims to provide tools to help develop new and experienced NMOs.

Rodrigo Roa SCOPE Regional Assistant

[email protected]

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Regional Meeting 2016January 17th -22nd

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Check in

Every delegate will go through a Check in process with the Organizing Committee (OC), from here, they will check if everything is correct with the payments and the registration. No delegate will be able to check in if finances are not solved with the OC treasurer. The room keys and name badges will be given during this process.

What not to forget: Your identification will be asked during this process, to make everything faster and easier for the delegates and the OC, we recommend having a “head of delegation” that will collect all IDs, and distribute the keys and badges to the delegations.

Open Ceremony

The Open Ceremony will be the inauguration of our Regional Meeting, it will be held in the main salon of the Dazzler Hotel, and there we will officially start the Americas Regional Meeting.

The recommended attire is formal clothes.

What not to forget: Remember to bring your National or National Member Organization flag to take awesome pictures and long lasting memories with other delegations and delegates. Punctuality is a must since we will have external invites in the event.

Transportation to Venue

The venue and the hotel are close to each other, but they are not in the same place. The OC will provide transportation from and to the venue everyday on selected times, if you miss the bus, there are other alternatives to get to the venue, they are described in the “transportation” item of this survival kit

What not to forget: Punctuality. We want to start all sessions on time, so we strongly recommend delegations to have “time keepers” to check if everyone from the delegation

is ready for the sessions on time. We also recommend some nice funny punishments to be done during the NMO hours for those who arrive early! Remember you are representing your country and organization.

SC/President sessions

This stands for Standing Committee and President sessions. During this time, there will be parallel sessions for each committee. They will all be in the main venue, the SMU. If you are not sure what sessions to attend, make sure to discuss it with your delegation beforehand. We do recommend you to stay in the same sessions during the Regional Meeting, since several sessions are divided into different days.

What not to forget: In IFMSA we have 6 standing committees; SCORA, SCOPH, SCORP, SCOPE, SCORE, and SCOME. During IFMSA events, Presidents sessions are usually held. If you are still unsure about the content of the sessions, or you haven’t decided which one to attend, we strongly recommend you to read the session’s survival kits that will be sent during the first week of January.

Americas’ team meeting/NMO hours

The agenda provides this space for all delegations to gather and discuss the daily activities. We recommend you to use this time to discuss your sessions, plan the daily events ahead and divide tasks within your delegations. The Americas team also reunites during this time.

If you want to have any member of the Team of Officials or the Regional Team in your NMO hour someday, make sure to contact us beforehand so we can plan that out.

What not to forget: Settle the exact time and place with your delegates during day one. Please notice, Internet is sometimes limited during IFMSA events because of large amount of connected devices.

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Training Sessions

The Capacity Building team of the Regional meeting, together with the TNT and TOT participants will prepare awesome training sessions for the regional meeting attendees. The topics will be published during the Regional meeting, and participants will have to register on the sessions. We strongly recommend you to attend this sessions, since they will provide invaluable knowledge and skills to the participants. IFMSA considers capacity building a key topic.

What not to forget: Don’t forget to register early and on time, since the sessions usually have limited spots. Make sure to save yours in your favorite session by registering early.

Theme event

The theme event for our Regional Meeting is Health Equity, a very relevant topic for our region, one of the region with the highest inequity rates of the world. As Medical students, we need to take a strong stance in this matter and actively engage in the efforts to make our region a healthier, more equitable one. As medical students, and future young doctors, it is our duty to learn and participate in all regional efforts to make this topic a regional priority. We will be sharing the list of speakers and externals in the following weeks. We really hope you enjoy, and actively participate in these sessions, which are a relevant part of the Regional Meeting

What not to forget: All sessions of the meeting will be in English, since that’s the official language of the Federation. Make sure to prepare questions and actively engage in the discussions.

Joint sessions

Joint sessions will be an opportunity to share a session with a parallel standing committee.

Use this opportunity to learn a bit more about other Standing Committees of IFMSA, and how all our committees can work together on different topics. The topics of these sessions will be shared on the session’s survival kits that will be sent on the first week of January.

Activities Fair

The activities fair is your chance to share your National activities with the rest of the region. Present your best activities, projects and ideas with the rest of the Americas members, to collect ideas and replicate your activity in other Americas countries. There will be a “Best activity fair stand of the region” , “The most original activity”, and some other prices that will be announced on spot, The winners will be selected by a jury of selected International IFMSA representatives. Each NMO is free to present several activities, but please notice you will need to apply for the “activities fair call” that will be sent by the IFMSA Vice President for Activities.

What not to forget: Make your stand rock! you will have a table and space to present a poster, and you may bring stickers, a laptop with slides or whatever you feel like adding to your stand to make your activity stand out!

Activities Presentation

Do you have a national activity that you love and you wished all regional presidents heard about it? Use this opportunity to present your activity in the regional plenary, in front of the region. There will be limited spots, and those activities with great national and regional impact will be selected to be presented. The best presented activity will win the “Best activity of the region” price. Each NMO will only be able to present one activity, make sure is the one that makes your NMO proud

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What not to forget: The same activity can be presented in both, the activities fair and the activities presentation, but remember that the modality is different. The first one is with a stand, in a fair with several other activities being presented simultaneously, and the second one will be an exposition, in front of the regional plenary.

Poster Fair

The poster fair will be the chance of America’s members to create a poster to present your national reality of a topic related to the Regional meeting theme event: Health Equity. Please notice there will also be a call for the poster fair, and interested members will have to apply for it. The theme event topic is very broad, so we are providing plenty of opportunities for participants to expose a national reality related to , Health Equity: Indigenous health? Medical curriculum? Health systems? Trade agreements impact on our region? you go for it, and the region will be there to see your poster and engage in active discussions with other regional members. Please notice we will also have a jury, and a “best poster fair” price.

What not to forget: Please make sure to bring your posters from home since we won’t have any printing device available for participants.

Plenary

The regional plenary will be the opportunity for all presidents and delegations to get together discuss and and make decisions for our region. Our plenary is normed under our Internal Operating Guidelines (IOGs), and even though it’s not officially a plenary, since the only binding plenary IFMSA has take place the General Assemblies, we consider this an excellent opportunity to rehearse plenary dynamics to get involved with other presidents from the region.

What not to forget: Bring your flags! and make sure your complete delegation is there to participate in this amazing opportunity. Make sure to discuss how a plenary is conducted during your NMO hours, discuss whats a procedural motion is, and when to place them, what’s a statement, a point of information and a point of order! make sure to ask for the help of the regional team, we will be glad to give you a plenary 101 on the NMO hours.

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Accomodation & VenueWe are waiting for you

Accomodation

All participants will be accommodated in the Dazzler Montevideo Hotel.

Featuring an outdoor swimming pool, a fitness centre, and a spa, Dazzler Montevideo offers free WiFi and buffet breakfasts in Montevideo. The property is located in the neighbourhood of Punta Carretas and is surrounded by a commercial area, including restaurants and cultural attractions. The Oceanside boulevard is 500 m away and the historic centre is 3 km from the property.

Providing a tranquil environment, rooms at Dazzler Montevideo are fitted with a flat-screen TV, a minibar, air conditioning, central heating, a wardrobe and a safe. Private bathrooms are completed with a bathtub and a hairdryer. Some accommodations are pet-friendly.

Spa facilities at Dazzler Montevideo include a Scottish shower, sauna, Turkish bath, and bathtub. Massage sessions and Pilates lessons can be arranged for an extra fee.

The Dazzler features a nice garden and a business centre. Room service is available and laundry services can be arranged upon request.

Dazzler Montevideo is 2,1 km from the city centre and 19 km from Carrasco International Airport. Parking is possible for an extra charge and subject to availability.

Punta Carretas is a great choice for travellers interested in local food, great for wineand food.

Dazzler Montevideo Hotel21 de Setiembre 2752Montevideo 11300, UruguayTel (+598) 2716 0000

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Venue

The venue for all sessions will be at the Sindicato Medico del Uruguay (SMU), the headquarters of the Uruguay’s Medical Association. The venue will provide wide and comfortable rooms for all participants, with WIFI, and air conditioning. The organizing committee will provide coffee breaks and transportation from, and to the venue everyday. Please notice that the venue is a smoke-free zone.

Sindicato Médico del Uruguay (SMU)Bulevar General Artigas 1565Montevideo, 11200 - UruguayTel (+598) 2401 4701

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TransportationMove around Montevideo

Transportation

Airport Transportation

Transportation between Airport and Hotel will not be provided by the Organizing Committee. The OC recommends to use the official Airport Taxi Service. This company offers two options for transportation:

Taxi - Limo Service

This taxi service is composed of first class Mercedes Benz, all of them equipped with free WiFi, radio control and cell phones allowing fluid communication and providing current location information for passenger’s safety.

Taxi – Limo Service: UYU 1180 (USD 39) *Fee per taxi

Vans - Micro Buses

The company also counts with Mercedes Benz Vans, to transport up to 12 passengers.

Vans: UYU 350 (USD 11.6) *Fee per passenger

Hotel - Venue Transportation

Transportation will be provided by the OC with no extra charge from the hotel to the venue during the mornings, then back to the hotel and also to social programs. The time schedule will be shared with the RM participants in due time.

Other Means of Transportation

Taxi (8-10 min)

A taxi between the hotel-venue costs around UYU 80-90 (USD 2.6 - 3)

Public Bus

Local bus tickets costs UYU 26 (USD 0.86) *One way trip

From hotel to venue - Walk down to General Artigas Boulevard

bus stop. - Take either line 300 or 174. - Drop off at Hospital Pereira Rossell bus stop.

From venue to hotel - Take either the 174 or 300 bus line. - Drop off at the 21 de Setiembre and Blv.

General Artigas bus stop. - Walk down the 21 de Setiembre street.

Walking (30 min)

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Social ProgramAnd when the Sun comes down ...

Social Program

Opening Ceremony January 17th

Get ready, because the Regional meeting is about to start! The opening ceremony will be the inaugural event for our regional meeting. Dinner and party will come afterwards. Formal Dress code.

Maldonado Bar January 18th

This bar is located at the Palermo Neighborhood, home to the Arts and Trades School and the Mercosur Building, seat of the parliament of the Mercosur member countries. Come and spend a pleasant night with friends!

Carnival Museum January 19th

Experience a night of Carnival! Get ready to tour the museum, join the musical workshop with carnival professionals, witness the rehearsal of a “murga” and dine the typical menu of “Night at the Tablado”!

Asado Night January 20th

Uruguay is famous for its excellent beef and barbecues, come and enjoy one of the traditionals Uruguay’s Barbecues “Asados” and taste the tradition of only country with more cattle that actual people!

National Food & Drink Party (NFDP) January 21st

IFMSA is famous for the National Food and Drinks party, prepare your national stands with your national and traditional dishes and snacks, also share some of your national beverages. If you want to wear your traditional clothes, this is your opportunity. The awesome part? Get to try the food and beverages from all the delegations! have the real American experience, all in one party.

The Organizing committee it’s preparing exciting activities for you to enjoy the nightlife and cuisine of Uruguay. Each night will come with a different activity for all participants. Please remember that the social program fee is not included in the general participant fee. If you wish to participate in the activities you will need to pay the social program fee during the check-in.

Social Program Fees

Pre-RM fee

25 USD

RM fee

25 USDSchedule

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Montevideo, Uruguay

January 2016

Theme Event

“The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) in October 2014 adopted a regional Strategy for Universal Access to Health and Universal Health Coverage, which expresses the commitment of PAHO Member States to strengthen health systems, expand access to comprehensive quality health services, provide financial protection, and adopt integrated, comprehensive policies to address the social determinants of health and health inequities.”

Universal health coverage has been at the center of the global public health agenda in recent years. As one of the key goals of health systems, universal health coverage provides countries a way to fight against unmet needs and health inequities.

Did you know that the Latin American region faces the greatest socioeconomic and health inequalities in the world? Despite the improvement in the recent years, there are still many differences among people’s health depending on their gender, where they live, their level of education, and whether they are rich or poor, etc.

Health equity, universal health coverage and social determinants of health have been a major topic of the global health in the last years. Multiple stakeholders in the field of public health have been advocating the examination of policies and initiatives aimed at achieving health equity and universal health coverage.

IFMSA, as the biggest medical students’ organization worldwide, must be part of the process. Our Theme Event will introduce professionals with vast experience in the field of public health, giving the attendants the opportunity to acquire a deep outlook on the subject.

The theme event will be in charge of the Uruguayan Physicians Union (SMU) and the National Academy of Medicine.

Health Equity in the

Americas

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Montevideo, Uruguay

January 2016

Theme EventHealth Equity in the Americas

Documents

Americas RM 2016 Survival Kit - English