Koen Demaegd

President 2016-2017

Candidature Package

Dear IFMSA General Assembly,

It is my utmost honor and pleasure to present to you my candidature for President.

After about half a term of telling how things can be done differently, and better, I like to take my

responsibility and volunteer for a function of which is scientifically proven not being good for personal

health (Burgard et al., 2013). Though the Federation and the future of medical students worldwide is for

me worth these sacrifices.

As you will notice further in this candidature, sustainability is my main goal throughout the term. As I

believe one should start with itself, I propose here to begin with making the position of President more

sustainable. Hence, this is a joint candidature with Trixie Paralevo, my soulmate who was secretly working

on my side all the time and will now raise from my shadow. This confession is for me very important, as I

believe that the General Assembly that will vote on me has the right to know this information that will

influence my work. So for the NOREs among you, or all the other people that worked with me, if you ever

saw me working 20h per circadian cycle, I

was not alone, Ms. Paralevo was there to

support me and take over on moments of

despair.

To continue in this openness, here a word

about my background. I was raised by the

fiery ginger of the West and before her by

the divine Dr. Cerdas from the same West.

They believed in a model of development

that consist out of giving support when needed, but elsewhere letting people grow up themselves. With

this independent attitude, I founded SCORE in Belgium in the wonderful year of 2014. Only few people

know it, but that was the start of a new era. If you might wonder why in particular SCORE, the reason is

quite rational. Many say that SCOPE is the fundamental structure of IFMSA, however only few people

realize that 39 years later an optimized version was founded. This SCOPE 2.0 was originally named SCOEE.

Called the Standing Committee on Electives Exchanges, this “Electives” was however too confronting with

the baby-blue souls that were left behind, so it was in 1998 changed to the well-known glorious SCORE.

With this somehow dark-blue narcissistic note, I hope that was made clear that I’m a progressive person,

ready to make a change when ought beneficial. After all, one of the frequently used slogans of our

Exchanges is “Make a change, go on Exchange”.

This change plays also a big deal in my motivation. I started working in about 6 organizations at a time,

now two years ago, because I saw the need for change. My working force follows where my heart sees a

way for improvement, and it’s by this that I got involved in various positions. As positions became more

demanding, I had to select and my blue heart found it’s home. Currently being SCORE Director and as such

member of the Team of Officials, I actively participate and raise voice for the well-being of our beloved

Federation. As will be explained further in my Plan of Action, I have an ambitious vision on the future of

IFMSA. Having in mind the saying “aim for the moon, if you miss you still end up between the stars”, it

would be my pleasure to take you on this journey towards the IFMSA it can become. It’s time for the NeXT

phase of development for IFMSA!

Are you joining?

PLAN OF ACTION

In the following Plan of Action I would like to share with you my vision on IFMSA. This is of course up to

discussion and in case of any questions or remarks, feel free to contact me.

First of all I would like to state that the following plans might be a bit ambitious to achieve in a single

term, therefore I like to present to you the IFMSA 2020 Sustainable Development Strategy. As the names

says, the core value in the entire future IFMSA is sustainability, and this will be reflected in every single

piece of IFMSA, whether matter or antimatter (including dark matter and everything that forms the 96%

of the universe that we currently are missing).

The proposed IFMSA 2020 Sustainable Development Strategy, will be part of the Big 4 Reform 2.0, as to

my humble opinion the current reform could have been more ambitious.

New leadership This might sound a bit familiar, but we all know that a leadership structure with one person having control

and responsibility is more efficient than eternal discussions. However, in order to prevent dictatorship,

the new Emperor of IFMSA would be counterbalanced by a partner with equal veto rights. As mentioned

before, this candidature is a joint candidature with my partner Trixie, shown below.

As you can see, Trixie is a fierce individual that will not hesitate to stop me in any absurd plans, and I will

ensure the same protection mechanism for her desire to power.

The neutral committee, currently known as SupCo, will be formed by the very experienced 2 month old

Albert the hedgehog, who can stop any evil plan by being a collection of the cutest atoms of the universe.

Albert will ensure that no second Ides of March, 44 B.C will happen with our new somehow Roman-

republic like structure. I am absolutely confident that this revolution to empire won’t happen, as long as

we don’t have the power to turn time back with 2060 years. As you can see, Albert is already showing

great understanding of IFMSA.

However, as Trixie can also use her fluffy attack to convince people, the General Assembly would still be

the decision making body of the Federation.

Professionalism Professionalism is crucial in order to be taken serious by partner organizations. Being aware that a non-

humanoid partner-emperor might be damaging for our image, I make up with a visionary plan for our

secretariat.

Currently being based in a cozy city in the Netherlands, we would have a lot more impact with offices in

the dominant cities. Therefore I propose a secretariat in Geneva, with infiltration missions in the WHO

Headquarters, one in Brussels to dominate European policy, one in Dubai just for fun and one in

Washington D.C. to simply gain control over the entire United Nations.

These secretariats would not only be responsible for institutional memory and networking in the

respective decision making bodies, but also construct our publications and take administrative tasks out

of TO’s hands. *clap clap*

Bylaws For the bylaw-loving people that are now scared

that our new policy might not be entirely

coherent with the IFMSA Constitution and

Bylaws, which has to be on its turn in line with

Dutch law, do not fear. The golden solution

would be to create an independent nation called

IFMSA Land, where all IFMSAians can find a

place to relax after a demanding term. This new

land would have its own laws, in accordance

with the new set of Bylaws. The parliament of

IFMSA land would consist out of the General

Assembly.

NMO involvement The first objective is to unite all – like really all- the medical students worldwide, from the smallest island

till the continent-sized countries.

NMO involvement has been a hard to solve subject till now, however the golden solution is coming. By

collaboration with Google X, we would make use of their air balloons and floating servers to ensure that

all IFMSA Members worldwide have internet access.

Till the moment that the automatic conference translation is functional, we would barrow United Nations

translators on our meetings to make sure that everyone can fully take part in the discussions.

Financial Sustainability Having four staffed offices would of course cost boatloads of money, however please note that on short

term they would be replaced by androids and future generations of humanoid robots. This creates a

bunch of advantages, going from less burnouts over not taking holidays to fast learning by machine-

learning algorithms.

The main struggle in our finances is the eternal travel costs. Besides being very expensive, it is absolutely

not sustainable. Therefore our research core priorities will be shifted all towards teleportation. At the

moment we are still a bit struck at the level of quantumteleportation, so until the moment we are able to

effectively teleport people, we would use an IFMSA plane, which would of course get its power from a

combination of solar energy and hydrogen fuel. We will also ask from our partners to triple their efforts

on nuclear fusion, as this will be key in 21st century energy struggles.

As you might have noticed throughout this Strategy proposal, transition measures will be taken.

Endgoal – mission X Once we have accomplished all of the previous steps, our blue planet will be in our hands. We should not

rest however, as the ultimate goal, codename mission X, is to rule the Galaxy. Zaphod Beeblebrox² has

been doing a pretty terrible job till now, so it’s time to send Hitchhikers throughout the galaxy and take

over control of the Milky Way.

Though I am realistic enough to understand that this final goal might be hard to reach by 2020.

Having said all this, there is nothing left than hoping that you’re on board for this bright future.

I am very much looking forward to meeting all of you in Malta. For those that cannot attend the meeting,

as we currently don’t have the IFMSA plane yet, I’m available for questions through email.

Signed,

Koen Demaegd and Trixie Pixie Doo Paralevo

This candidature was AQ Certified by

the Association of living and death organisms.

Note: This candidature is in line with all IFMSA Policy statements. As a result the candidature is available

through open license (Policy on Open access), is sugarfree, not printed & climate-friendly. It also takes

into account our partnerships with the veds by praising animals. Human rights were respected in the

writing and will also be reinstalled when the plan of action is achieved. In line with our values, it's also

irrespective of geographical, social, cultural, religious, racial, sexual and political differences.

Note 2: The author of this work has a particular sick kind of humour, which comes to great advantage in a

discipline as medicine aimed at curing the sick.

References -Burgard et al., 2013: Burgard SA, Lin KY. Bad Jobs, Bad Health? How Work and Working Conditions

Contribute to Health Disparities. The American behavioral scientist.

2013;57(8):10.1177/0002764213487347. doi:10.1177/0002764213487347.

-Zaphod Beeblebrox²: from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams.

PS: This is a joke, please do not take this serious. As you might have noticed, this candidature is not for

president of IFMSA, but to become president of the Universe (in every dimension till at least 126 or the

number that current snare theory proposes).

This candidature has no intention to hurt anyone either physically nor physiologically, and aims to install

peace all-over the world. Any opinion stated here is rising from an absurd mental state and should not

influence the functioning of any members of IFMSA.

PPS: My NOREs and my IT is amazing, I wouldn’t let

them down for any other group of people.

PPS: Thank you for reading this creation. If your mind

is a bit confused now, here is a cute animal: