Mission
According to the organization's website, its threefold mandate seeks:
- To support medical students by representing their voices among the national organizations that direct or influence the policy environment or delivery of medical education in Canada. It also represents medical students in organizations with broader health care mandates. A key function of representation is to undertake political lobbying and advocacy at the Federal level on behalf of medical students.
- To provide services that support the needs of member medical students.
- To communicate national medical education issues of importance to individual medical students and to facilitate communication and interaction of medical students among member schools.
Read more about this topic: Canadian Federation Of Medical Students
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