Activities
In the fifties various Student International Clinical Conferences (SICC) were organized by IFMSA in different countries. In 1963, the first IFMSA summer schools were organized in Scandinavia, United Kingdom (in tropical medicine) and Denmark (preclinical students). In the same year IFMSA promoted a Blood Donation Week and a Book Appeal for students from developing countries (organized by FRG). later on many summer schools were organized, the most inportant of which were the series of international summer schools on stop AIDS which started in 1995. The seventies witnessed the worldwide broadening of IFMSA, the promotion of many conferences on all aspects of regional and international items, but also the raising of a number of organizational problems like communication, financial constraints, and politicization of IFMSA policies. Conferences on items such as selection methods for admission to medical schools, practical clinical training in medical education and the problem of drugs (experimentation, production and use) took place.