UNR student to head professional exchange studies

By Emmanuel Mungwarakarama IN SOUTHERN PROVINCE
Tuesday, 24 October 2006
JanvierYubahwe, 26, a medical student of the National University of Rwanda (NUR), has been nominated by the International Federation of Medical Students Association (IFMSA) to take charge of the medical students’ professional exchange programmes in the member countries.IFMSA, whose headquarters are based in Amsterdam, Holland, opreates in over 100 countries worldwide and conducts medical students’ professional exchange, involving exchange of students in search of new knowledge especially in human medicine.Yubahwe, who is also the president of medical students association of the National University of Rwanda (MEDSAR), will start work his international duty on January 1, 2007 for a one year tenure when the body elects another person.Medical students at the national university of Rwanda have previously benefited from the professional exchange programme in Germany and Denmark while ten more students are slated to go to Holland next month for a two-month medical teaching practice.The Rwanda medical students association is currently involved in rural and community development activities like teaching and sensitising people on family planning and reproductive health in partnership with the Danish youth Associations. MEDSAR also has working partnership on HIV/Aids prevention, counseling and testing with their Scottish counterparts. The Rwanda village concept project (RVCP) carries out health sensitisation programmes on HIV/Aids, Malaria and Tuberculosis every year under the partnership with the ministry of health and other IFMSA member countries. Sensitization on rabbit rearing and keeping is also another rural development activity being conducted.