Membership
All undergraduates enrolled in the Faculty of Medicine shall automatically (without cost) be members of the society.
Aims
The society aims to foster generally the interests of students enrolled in the Faculty of Medicine, to implement their views and demands with regard to the place of medical students within society and within the faculty, and to cater for their social needs.
Structure
Three persons are elected from each year to act as MUMUS representatives. Together, these representatives form the MUMUS committee, from which is elected the executive, consisting of president, vice-president, secretary and treasurer. MUMUS also fosters the development of subcommittees, whose activities cover a wide variety of interests. Currently these include AMA student representatives, magazine committee and orientation committee. The MUMUS office is on the ground floor adjacent to lecture theatre M3. The telephone number is 905 4329.
Activities
Throughout the year, the MUMUS committee is responsible for varied events, including organisation of orientation activities, the annual cabaret and ball, convivium, and inter-year sporting challenges and barbecues. MUMUS windcheaters are produced annually, and occasionally, ties. There is also a collection of old exams and lecture notes available to all students. MUMUS represents students' views through representatives on faculty board and other faculty committees, including those dealing with selection, exclusion and education. As a student society, MUMUS is affiliated with AMSA (Australian Medical Students' Association), and the committee appoints two delegates to AMSA council, where policies concerning all Australian medical students are decided.
Clinical committee
All fourth, fifth and sixth year students in the Faculty of Medicine are eligible to be members of the clinical committee. The aim of the committee is to organise facilities and activities relating to aspects of students' lives at all teaching hospitals. The clinical committee operates from the Union office located on the lower ground floor, Monash Medical School, Alfred Hospital and is open from 10 am to 2 pm during fourth-year term dates. The telephone number is 276 2356; after hours messages may be recorded on 511 892.
International Medical Student Association
The International Medical Student Association (IMSA), formed by international students, is involved in a variety of educational and social activities and provides valuable support to incoming medical students. All medical students are eligible to join IMSA. The association maintains an office near lecture theatre M3.
The association aims to represent the education and welfare rights of Monash University international medical students and to ensure that the views and opinions of these students are sufficiently represented within the faculty and international student movements. IMSA also aims to increase interaction between international and local students through social activities, working with and alongside MUMUS.
IMSA organises orientation activities, a first-year study support system, information sessions, barbecues, an Asian lunch, an annual dinner and dance and also a sports day with Melbourne University's medical students. Other activities including seminars, talks and forums touching on international medical student issues are also held from time to time.