Local Officer on Medical Education (LOME)
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Student representative in a local committee of any National Member Organisation (NMO) of the International Federation of Medical Students' Associations (IFMSA) setting a focus of his/her work on the improvement of medical education at the local level.
The Local Officers on Medical Education (LOMEs) are in charge of local improvement in Medical Education and related activities at the different local medical faculties of a NMO. They are elected locally and are responsible for tackling local problems. They are advised to form local working groups, whose work they co-ordinate. The LOMEs shall communicate with and report to the NOME.
In some NMOs, LOMEs represent students in faculty’s and university’s boards of curricular reform.
