MM 2013 - USA

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International Peer Education Training Pre GA Workshop

MM 2013, Baltimore, USA
Vision
To offer all youth the opportunity to live healthy lives fully equipped with the knowledge and skills to ensure their own reproductive health and rights.

Short introduction
"The only way to fight AIDS is through prevention, the only way of prevention is through education." Peer education is a known efficient way to reach youth; giving knowledge, tools and guiding towards positive behaviour change. The International Peer Education Training is a 3-day-training to develop Peer Educators, giving medicine students the skills and tools to work with behaviour change peer education. The training will work with facilitation skills, team building, information sharing, attitudes and self awareness, group dynamics, non-judgemental approach, proposing and developing peer education sessions and trainings, theatre based peer education and behaviour change techniques. Different topics will be covered within the field of Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) including HIV/AIDS, gender, contraception, Sexual and Reproductive Rights, stigma and discrimination. At the end of the workshop the participants will be provided with access to manuals and other resources.

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The training will focus on how to approach youth, including vulnerable youth: who might pose as a challenge to reach. To manage this the workshop includes theatrebased education techniques in the agenda, as well as recognized and standardized communication and public speaking skills.

We believe in learning through discussion, sharing and fun. IPET is very interactive, participants will be invited to discuss, share views and ideas and challenge them, and learn and exchange skills with people from all over the world with different and similar experiences.

Objectives of the workshop To improve in the current peer education programmes in IFMSA To improve the training of trainers on a national level within IFMSA and enhance the number of trainers training peer educators To empower medical students to set up and develop a peer education project in their country, focusing on prevention / health promotion in youth. To pose a platform for strengthening a support network among members who are actively involved in peer education and who are working with youth.
Why be a Peer Educator? Apart from peer education being a lot of fun it is also rewarding and you learn a lot from it. The IPET-workshop, the future work as a peer educator and perhaps a trainer of peer educators will strengthen you in your values and attitudes, teach you a lot about sexual and reproductive health (or if you want to practice peer education in another area, teach you a lot within this area) and practice and improve your skills in communication and presentation which will help in your future role as a physician.

Hope to see you at IPET!

Dsire Lichtenstein, SCORA Director. For more info and questions contact scorad@ifmsa.org

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