Two standing committee are concerned with student exchange, SCOPE and SCORE
SCOPE
The Standing Committee On Professional Exchange (SCOPE) is the first created IFMSA Standing Committee. It constitutes the largest exchange program within IFMSA and it has been running since the organization's foundation in 1951.
SCOPE is the most effective mechanism through which medical students can study internationally through IFMSA.
SCOPE has been in operation since IFMSA's founding, and it has always been the backbone of IFMSA since its foundation. After World War II, there was a common feeling among medical students on surpassing borders; this was the main reason to set up this exchange program, which has been the core and the backbone of IFMSA since its beginning.
The aim of SCOPE is to promote international understanding and co-operation amongst medical students and all health professionals through international exchange of medical students.
The exchange program offers medical students unique educational and cultural experience in addition to the regular medical curriculum. It also helps to broaden the students understanding of medical and social conditions in different countries.
Currently over 8600 international exchanges are made every year, and 78 countries around the 6 continents around the world are taking part in SCOPE.
The Professional Exchange is defined and regulated in the Standing Orders of SCOPE. A professional means an exchange of a medical student who undergoes a medical practice in a hospital abroad. This practice, named clerkship, is purely educational for the student and he/she will not receive a salary for it.
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SCORE
Research exchange is a 1-6 month program available all year round in 37 different countries. Research Exchange offers you the opportunity to participate in a focused and personalized research program in order to expand your knowledge in a specific area. You'll be able to earn credits, to interact with other cultures and form social and professional networks.
The Standing Committee on Research Exchange (SCORE) is one of the six standing committees of the International Federation of Medical Students' Associations (IFMSA). This standing committee was founded in 1991 as the Standing Committee on Electives Exchange (SCOEE). Because the name “Electives” was too confusing, SCOEE decided to change the name to SCORE in 1998.
SCORE provides the medical students with a unique possibility to experience a clinical or pre-clinical research in a foreign country. The student is incorporated in a research team and conducts a research work under the supervision of a certain tutor. The student will be guided through the basic principles of research, such as literature studies, collecting information, scientific writing, laboratory work, statistics and ethical aspects. At the end of the project, the student might be expected to write a short essay about his/her results and achievements.
The research project itself deepens the specific knowledge in the field of the student's interest. The possibility of doing the research abroad contributes to the broadening of the students' professional and human horizon; it introduces a different approach to research, medical education, health care and ethics to the student. Through this international exchange programme, SCORE hopes to contribute to the international co-operation and understanding between the medical faculties, research institutes and – last but not least – among the students and health care professionals as the human beings.
Marwa Fouad Negm
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