The Lebanese Medical Students’ International Committee is an independent, student-run, non-partisan, non-governmental and not-for-profit organization. It is a full National Member Organization (NMO) of the International Federation of Medical Students’ Associations (IFMSA). It is an organization run by medical students, which aims to develop empowered healthcare professionals that will provide Lebanon with a sustainable and healthier future through activities, capacity building, international opportunities, and peer-to-peer education on global health issues.

LeMSIC was founded in 1964 by Lebanese medical students. Unfortunately, with the onset of the Lebanese war, all LeMSIC activities were ceased. LeMSIC was reactivated in 1997 with the establishment of the Exchange Program and the 6th international HIV/AIDS summer school. Since then it has grown to embrace hundreds of medical students in its various standing committees and is making its mark internationally. Several LeMSIC members have held high ranking positions in IFMSA, including President of IFMSA.

The “Let It Brain” project has been launched in the aim of qualifying members with the awareness and knowledge that mental health is in fact brain health and that we, as medical students, have a responsibility to spread that knowledge as to conquer society’s misconceptions and fallacies. It focuses on countless different mental health disorders through various events devised within this term including Mental Health Weekly, Stronger Minds Platform, Brain Camp, Brain Champ, Brain HEAT and much more to come.