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Standing Committee on Professional Exchange (SCOPE)

Standing Committee on Research Exchange (SCORE)

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IFMSA runs two types of exchange programs, professional and research exchanges that are both endorsed by the World Federation of Medical Education (WFME). A Professional & Research Exchange Training (PRET) is an international meeting of the IFMSA, where exchange officers and exchange motivated students from a region can meet and participate in trainings, workshops and small working groups. PRETs are organized by an Organizing Committee (OC) within a National Member Organization (NMO) that volunteers to find board and lodging, to coordinate the trainings, Small Working Groups (SWGs) and workshops and to organize a social program for all the participants. The main objective of the program is to improve exchanges in the region.

Incoming Exchange Programs

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SCOPE was the first standing committee within IFMSA in 1951. It started small, beginning with only 8 European countries, but since then has grown into one of the largest student-run exchange programs in the world, with more than 1.5 million medical students from 97 National Member Organizations participating until today. The SCOPE exchange program is a quality educational and cultural experience organized entirely by medical students with the help of their medical faculties.

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The primary mission of SCORE is to provide intensive and focused research projects, which allow medical students to expand their knowledge of specific scientific areas of their choice, while encouraging the formation of professional and social networks abroad. Presently, SCORE involves more than 65 active NMOs, offering over 3000 research projects to provide over 2400 medical students worldwide the opportunity to participate in IFMSA research exchange program and learn the basic principles of medical research such as literature studies, collecting data, scientific writing, lab work, statistics and ethical aspects related to the medicine.

Objectives

  1. To increase the mobility and to widen the horizon of medical students worldwide. 

  2. To provide medical students with the possibility to experience healthcare in another culture with different health and education systems, and to IFMSA Exchanges learn how differences in culture and believes are of influence.

  3. To create possibilities for medical students to learn about global health issues, primary health concerns and basic epidemiology of the host country, and how it differs from their home country.

  4. To contribute to the education of a future health professionals with a global vision and to contribute to medical students’ personal development, self-reliance and openness in becoming future health professionals.

  5. To provide students with the chance to improve their medical knowledge, their vision on medical issues and their practical knowledge depending on the regulations of the host country.

  6. To facilitate the connection of medical students and other health professionals and to provide a platform for future cooperation amongst medical students with each other and with health professionals across the globe. 

  7. To maintain affordable professional exchange tuition through its governing body to ensure that medical students within the National Member Organizations can participate in the exchanges with a minimal financial burden.

  8. To make sure students are aware of the ethical aspects regarding their exchange to assure the burden on society, patients, the recourses and the healthcare system is as limited as possible.

  9. To promote tolerance towards differences and similarities within health and towards patients regardless of their sex, religion, or believes.

Objectives

  1. To provide research projects in medical curricula in order to medical students worldwide to take responsibility for their own curriculum according to their interest and to introduce them to the basic principles of medical research.

  2. To increase the mobility and widen the horizon of medical students worldwide providing them with the possibility to experience different approaches in medical research, education and treatment by partaking in research projects in other countries.

  3. To enhance the academic quality of the medical student curricula and the theoretical knowledge in the field of medical research either on basic science or on clinical science with/without lab work.

  4. To facilitate collaboration and partnership between different medical universities/schools, research institutions and allied medical students across the globe in order to share and spread new achievements in the field of medical research.

  5. To maintain affordable research exchange tuition through its governing body to insure that medical students within the National Member Organizations can participate in the exchanges without any financial burden.

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