Helwan Medical Students’ Association (HMSA), founded in 2017, is a medical students-led, non-governmental, non-profit, non-religious, non-racial, non-gendered, and non-discriminatory organization. HMSA’s fields of work are “medical” and “health-related”.
Our mission is to provide knowledge, skills, and opportunities to enhance and improve both the personality and the careers of rising physicians.
Our aim is to serve society and medical students all over Egypt through our activities by:
I. Empowering medical students in using their knowledge and capacities for the benefit of society.
II. Providing a forum for Helwan University’s medical students to discuss topics related to individual and community health, education, and science–and to formulate policies from such discussions.
III. Promoting and facilitating professional and scientific exchanges as well as projects and extracurricular training for medical students, thereby sensitizing them to other cultures and societies and their health problems.
IV. Providing a link between HMSA’s members, medical students’ associations within Egypt, and international organizations–and to encourage cooperation between them for the ultimate benefit of society.
HMSA pursues its aims without any kind of discrimination among its members, but with transparency, fairness, and respect; is not to advocate for any political or religious groups, but for the autonomy of science, the individuals working in it, and their intellectual property; and is to support medical students and the public as a non-governmental, non-profit students' organization.
HMSA is administratively affiliated with Helwan University’s Faculty of Medicine, being subject to all regulations and provisions set by the Faculty. HMSA seeks to participate actively in the achievement of the faculty's vision and mission through its activities, whose aim is to provide knowledge, skills, and opportunities to enhance and improve both the personality and the careers of rising physicians. For which, HMSA is to collaborate with the faculty's Medical Education Unit and Quality Assurance Unit. All Activities of HMSA are under the patronage of the Faculty’s Dean and its Vice-Dean for Education and Students Affairs.