AMSA UMS stands for the Asian Medical Students’ Association – Universiti Malaysia Sabah. As a student organization based in the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, UMS, our organization dedicates itself in providing a launching platform for student-based activities with other student bodies and acting as a bridge linking our medical students with the outside world, focusing mainly on the international community worldwide while not neglecting the local community. By organizing and participating in various exciting activities including public health events, student exchange programs, international conferences, seminars and talks, this organization provides a platform for students to learn and pick up "outside classroom" knowledge and skills. As the motto of AMSA UMS goes, “Knowledge, Action, Friendship”, we believe in giving back to society, through our public health events; we strive in improving cooperation and understanding between medical students within and outside of Malaysia via student exchange programs and international conferences. And, most importantly, we make friends along the way: in cooperating and collaborating with various medical-related governmental or non-governmental agencies throughout the region. Under the umbrella of AMSA International, a dynamic partner in numerous humanitarian-based projects that liaises with the World Health Organization and other big players, AMSA UMS officially joined AMSA Malaysia in 2006. Besides organizing the International Mental Health Conference in collaboration with AMSA UKM (2010), and the Sabah Adolescent Health Workshop with our faculty counterpart MEDSTAS (2010), it has hosted foreign students from neighboring countries such as Thailand, Philippines, Indonesia and Taiwan in exchange programs since 2010.