About Us

World Medical Students was founded in 2018 in Dschang, Cameroon, central Africa as a non-profit association of medical professionals (students) and related fields. WMS has a double finality. Firstly, to optimize and facilitate the training of health professionals via the linking of the theoretical courses to practical situations ("knowledge and experience sharing" AND "learning by doing"). Secondly, to fight by all means for the progressive amelioration of the living conditions, and also the life expectancy of local and urban populations in Cameroon, Africa, and worldwide; putting products and services in concordance with our objective at their disposal.

General Objectives

In a general point of view, WMS aims at both facilitating the acquisition of knowledge and the optimization of practical competences in health professional, health actors and actors of the wellbeing in general, so that by the effectiveness of their combined actions, they efficiently and sustainably impact positively the death rate statistics not only at the local level, but also at the international level.

Specific Objectives

• The contribution to the socio-professional insertion (finding an employment or encourage auto employment) of medical students (all levels and specialty) and in a certain extent, candidates to the different entrance exams into medical schools and scholarship programs in medicine.
• The recommendation or placement of medical students in local and international medical schools.
• The promotion and valorisation of primary medicine (prevention) by health actors (professionals and nonprofessional) as well as the personality development and capacity building in health professionals.
• The synergy of the savoir-faire of modern medicine, traditional medicine, environmental sciences, social sciences professionals and that of the populations so as to ameliorate their wellbeing in the physical, mental and social triple plan to reduce the prevalence of public health disasters.
• To participate in environmental protection.
• Fight against social troubles (exploitation and social abuse, deforestation, desertification, environmental pollution and others).
• To represent principally medical students, students of other faculties in general, and also vulnerable populations in the society in front of different entities.
• To become an international standard of non-profit humanitarian organizations, acting for humans’ wellbeing.
• To guarantee a minimum assistance and follow-up to all needy populations, particularly underprivileged ones, and to provide them with health facilities.
• To increase the sanitary coverage as much as possible to solve the problem of medical doctor to patients ratio in developing countries.
• To make sure the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) are attained.
• To implement programs that will reinforce populations’ capacities, not only to induce an active implication in different community health programs but also to favour and facilitate their effective and efficient participation in development and decision making.
• Protect and assist refugees, abandoned children, orphans, internally displaced persons and victims of natural catastrophes.

Our Mission

World Medical Students’ missions are summarise in these words: Inform, promote, train, prevent, assist, ease/facilitate, accompany, notice and denounce. During her existence, WMS Organization will put in place activities with the following key words; Observation, Information, Education, Communication and practical action to protect and assure the fulfilment of our target (joy, happiness, hope and reason for living, longevity).