Projects and Campaigns

	Teddy Bear Hospital – The Teddy Bear Hospital is a public health project for 3-7 year olds. It offers the opportunity for one-to-one consultations with children, increasing confidence for students, whilst reducing childhood anxiety about hospitals and doctors, and promoting child health.
	Crossing Borders - Crossing Borders is a national network of students interested in refugee healthcare issues. We work to improve the health of refugees and asylum seekers through practical action, education, awareness raising and campaigning.
	Marrow – Marrow’s main aim is to give everyone the chance to sign up to the national bone marrow register, and possibly save the life of someone in need of a bone marrow transplant.
	Sexpression - Sexpression educates young people in sex and relationship issues and aims to empower them to make informed choices about their reproductive health.
	Homed - HOMED works with healthcare students to promote understanding of and encourage engagement with issues relating to homelessness and social exclusion, such as drug addiction, prostitution and mental health.
	Open Art Surgery – Open Art Surgery is a project which involves volunteer students going into the Queens Medical Centre paediatrics wards. The volunteers carry out art therapy sessions with the children in which they are given a chance to socialise with each other as well as express themselves through art.
	The Kashmir Appeal In October, 2005 the South Asia Earthquake devastated a whole region and killed over 80000 people. The Kashmir Appeal wishes to support the MDAUK charity, set up by a group of doctors from the East Midlands. The charity aims to improve the rehabilitation and health care of the Asian earthquake victims. They wish to build and run a 30 bed charity based hospital in the worst hit region of the earthquake. Medsin Nottingham aims to help with fundraising for this hospital and to raise awareness amongst students regarding on-going healthcare issues after a natural disaster.
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	IFMSA Exchanges - The IFMSA (International Federation of Medical Students' Associations) is the largest student organisation in the world. The exchange program offers a unique educational and cultural experience giving students insight into medical and social conditions in different countries. It is also a great opportunity to escape from the UK for a month, improve a foreign language maybe and make lots of fun new International friends.
	Heartstart – CPRis aim to teach life saving skills in schools in order to increase the number of people who survive their cardiac arrest in the community each year.
	WaterAid - Water Aid’s mission is to overcome poverty by enabling the world's poorest people to gain access to safe water, sanitation and hygiene education.
	StopAIDs Campaign - Student Stop AIDS Societies aims to stop the HIV and AIDS pandemic through promoting universal access to evidence-based prevention, long term and sustainable treatment and care whilst providing education to reduce stigma and discrimination
	Malaria and neglected diseases Campaign - The Malaria and Neglected Diseases Campaign would like to deliver greater attention to malaria and other neglected diseases amongst students in he UK. We would like to avoid vertical focus and address the issue of R&D for neglected diseases including malaria.