Medical Students’ Rights Handbook

Name of the activity: Medical Students’ Rights Handbook

Country/NMO: France (ANEMF)

Program: Medical Education Systems

Contact information: [email protected]

Type of the activity: Third Party Activities. Supporting an individual or a group to tackle an issue, either in the form of fundraising (collecting money) or operative work (help with administrative tasks of other organizations or communities).

General description:

The goal of this handbook is to provide knowledge to medical students about their rights and to decrease the number of cases where they’re not respected.

Focus area:

Social accountability

Problem statement:

We wrote this handbook because there are a lot of cases where medical students’ rights are not respected. We hope it will help local representatives to defend students’ rights at hospital.

Target groups:

Medical students, Institutions

Beneficiaries:

Medical students

Objectives and indicators of success:

– Stop situations where medical students’ rights are not respected -> Decrease the number of cases where we’re sought after.

– Increase students knowledge on their rights

Methodology:

Communicate and spread our handbook to a maximum of medical students from all years.

Plans for evaluation:

We send a form to all our local committees so they can rate how much their universities and hospital respect the law and students’ rights.