You have elected Yasemin Kaya, Yesim Kaya and Mahrukh Akhtar to represent you in the FHML Council for the academic year 2022-2023. Cheers to a year of improving student welfare!
Read the manifesto of our elected candidates for the 2022-2023
Education Quality
- Ensure uniformity between tutorial groups through bullet points given by the course coordinator while promoting independent learning
- Reevaluate EPASS as the leading tool for formulating individual learning goals and be involved in this process to ensure the needs of students are being met
- Create a more inviting and stimulating learning environment in the FHML library
- Providing recorded lectures to students for both bachelor and master students to create equal learning opportunities
- Enhance the student’s knowledge about anatomy to increase the quality of the medicine programme at FHML
Employability and Extracurricular Skills and Learning
- Facilitate more skill learning opportunities through collaborations with other faculties, workshops by students for students and promoting already existing initiatives
- Offering guidance for students who wish to start new initiatives
- Encouraging student association members to take on more board responsibilities by allowing flexibility within the students’ timetable and deadlines
- Make the FHML internships webpage more user friendly and create an overview of current research projects in and outside of Maastricht
Diversity
- Work with more divers PBL cases and ensure that stereotypes are not further stimulated
- Increase diverse course material (e.g. skills and CORE sessions) on how diagnosis, treatment and patient contact can differ between religions, cultures, gender and sexualities
- Improve the diversity training of student advisors and mentors
- Raise awareness on neurodivergence within FHML and ensure that the students are being helped adequately
Student well being
- Make student wellbeing a priority again
- Train mentors to recognize issues faced by students
- Increase the accessibility by creating an overview of UM (mental) health facilities
- Implement reflection weeks/days after exam periods
- Give students the opportunity to manage unrealistic expectations with the help of a mentor/student advisor (e.g. help reduce workload, setting priorities)
- Improve the communication between course coordinators to better distribute deadlines and the workload
Internationalism
- More diverse events at INKOM focused on the different background of students to encourage an intercultural exchange such as learning traditional dances from different cultures
- Improving the FHML marketing strategy and encouraging new ways to reach prospective students for the European Public Health bachelor’s and master’s Program
- Make students associations more accessible for Master students