The Association of Students of the Medical Faculty (ASMF) in Sarajevo was founded in the year 2000, as a single representative body of all the students of the Medical Faculty. Over the past years, USMF has proved to be a very important factor in the preservation and protection of students’ rights and interests at the Faculty. Of course, ASMF is a non-profit, non-political and non-governmental orga
nization, which is a full member of the Student Parliament of the University of Sarajevo, where students of our faculty have traditionally governed the Department of Health. Association is headed by the President of the Association, and the management structure consists of the President of the Assembly, Executive Board, the General Secretary of the Association, and the Supervisory Board, which aims to control the finances and Association in general. Over the past years we have managed to achieve an outstanding level of democracy, so that today the Assembly is made up of an equal number of delegates from each academic year, and the Assembly itself makes all decisions concerning the association. An important part of the Association consists of departments, in our case Department of International Cooperation, Department of Sport and Department of Scientific Research. Each of these sectors has achieved remarkable results since the founding of the Association to date. Our students, in collaboration with the faculty are part of LIONS exchange program with Austria. Also, the plan is to achieve full membership in some of the international student associations and it should be resolved in the next academic year. Also, our students participate in many sports competitions of medical faculties in the region, and the culmination of that was the organization “Humanijada 2013th”. The Department for Scientific Research, since it was founded, has worked to help our students with writing scientific papers and going to international conferences. Thanks to these activities, our students have won several prestigious awards at regional conferences. The most important project in the history of Association is planned precisely in the area of scientific research. At the beginning of 2015, International Congress of Medical Students (SAMED) is scheduled to take place in Sarajevo, and we hope it will eventually grow into one of the largest student conferences in this part of Europe. Also, the Association has in recent years taken part in number of projects that are aimed at marking important days in health care and health promotion in general. Perhaps the most important part of the Association consists of representatives of years. Each academic year has two representatives who make the representative body. The specificity of our faculty is that one representative from each year is a full-fledged member of the Professors' Council with voting rights, which has the right to participate in all decisions at the University. This is why the Faculty of Medicine at the University is special because it is the only faculty where every year is entitled to vote at the Council of Professors. In addition to membership in the Council, the medical students are full members of all of the governing bodies of the Faculty, as well as the Ethics Committee, Disciplinary Committee, the Committee for Quality Assurance.
