#AssociationOfTheWeek – Meeting with ADEMMOOS

Last week, we met with the Association Carabins Montpelliéraine to learn more about student life for medical students. Today, Salomé Duteurtre, the student Vice-Dean, answers our questions!

In a nutshell, what is ADEMMOOS?

ADEMMOOS is the Association of Student Representatives of Montpellier-Nîmes in Medicine, Speech Therapy, Orthoptics, and Midwifery. It brings together nearly 40 elected student representatives from different fields of study. 

We work every day:

• in Interprofessionality : all of the faculty's departments are represented;
• in Intersite, through a collaboration between Montpellier and Nîmes residents;
• for Represent all UFR students to the administration, the faculty, and the university hospital.

What activities or actions do you implement throughout the year? 

Above all, our year is punctuated by our student representation activities.

We are therefore represented on two major committees within the faculty:

• The educational council facilitates consultation between the various stakeholders in the faculty (teachers, administrators, and students) regarding the courses offered by the UFR. In particular, it addresses the methods of knowledge assessment and the re-evaluation of teaching tools. 
• The management board is the faculty's decision-making body, which votes on and revises internal regulations, the budget, agreements entered into by the faculty, and training projects.

 

Our goal is therefore to give students a voice, often through surveys, which allow us to carefully gather students' opinions and positions on various topics that arise during the academic year. 

On the other hand, we are also carrying out multiple projects to improve our training conditions. For example, several of our actions concern health promotion:

• Improving student well-being in all its forms is one of our priorities. In the context of our challenging and demanding courses, some students may find themselves in difficulty: we try to support them and redirect them to resources that can help them.
• We are promoting flu vaccinations to encourage students, who are future healthcare professionals, to get vaccinated. In particular, we organized a vaccination day on campus. 

We also support initiatives aimed at promoting student life on campus. We attend Open Days and European Heritage Days to lead tours and engage with the public. But we also help to design living and working spaces.

We keep students informed about faculty news. For example, during the COVID crisis, we regularly updated them on the situation and changes to our courses.

We support medical interns in choosing their specialties through the Future Intern Forum (FFI), which we organize in conjunction with the Languedoc Roussillon Interns Union.

Finally, we work with all of the faculty's student associations:

• We support student-led support and educational projects: PACES tutoring, tutoring for upper-year medical and midwifery students, iECN preparation conferences, etc.
• We participate in student representation at the local level (AGEM) and at the national level in our respective departmental associations.

What does the association offer students?

Our association promotes several things:

• the support and representation of all students enrolled in the Montpellier-Nîmes Faculty of Medicine at the University of Montpellier;
• promoting improving student living conditions (in terms of the quality of studies and educational offerings) within the UFR by establishing ongoing dialogue between students, their elected representatives, and associations from all disciplines belonging to the UFR;
• the gathering of students from different departments of the UFR, in particular through the development of joint student initiatives, in order to overcome the divisions inherent in different courses of study and to encourage emulation by bringing together different skills.

Furthermore, no financial contribution is required from students. Simply by being enrolled at the university, students can benefit from all the activities offered by our association.

A few words about the 2020-2021 board?

Our association's board is made up of students, whether elected by their faculty or not, who are appointed for a one-year term from October to October to coordinate the team of student representatives.

Renewals for 2020-2021 will begin in the summer: please feel free to contact the current office if you are interested in any of the positions!

Please feel free to contact us with any questions you may have about student representation!

• On Facebook: ADEMMOOS – Elected representatives of the Montpellier-Nîmes Faculty of Medicine
  or Zelda Demmoos
• On Twitter @ademmoos_
• By email: ademmos.elus.etudiants@gmail.com