Incoming Program

Our incoming program is offered for foreign clinical students only. We do not accept pre-clinical students doing their clinical clerkship in our hospital. our program offers 4 weeks for intensive clinical practice and training for incoming students. Attendance is COMPULSORY. if your work hours less than 4 weeks, Dean of Faculty of Medicine, Andalas University and IFMSA will not give you the certificate as a proof that you had finished your clinical clerkship in The Central General Hospital Dr.M.Djamil (RSUP Dr.M.Djamil)

We offer you 4 Departments as you can choose what department you desired. Internal Medicine (General or Tropical Disease and others subspecialties), Surgery (General), Pediatrics (General), and Ophtalmology are 4 departments that you can choose. For Surgery, there might be night shift for incoming students for giving them more exploration to patients.

An incoming Students assists medical procedure under supervision of attending doctor

As Incoming Students, you will be given opportunities as big as possible to explore your medical knowledges and clinical skills to diagnose and to give treatment to your patients. You will have a chance to dig in patient's history, do physical examination, and make a diagnosis from clinical symptoms and manifestations, and decide the best treatments for your patients. You will get the opportunities to give presentation about your patient's case in front of attending doctors, resident, and clinical students and discuss about that with them.

An incoming student is taking BP on patient

English is not widely spoken in Indonesia. We used to speak in Indonesian and dialect language (in this case, West Sumatra people used to speak both in Indonesian and Minang Language). But you don't have to be afraid. Translation would usually made by partners (other Indonesia clinical students or resident) and supervisor (attending doctors). Please do not hesitate to approach them if you have something to ask. for your safety, Health Insurance is strictly required.

Incoming Students take patient's history

Board and Lodging for Incoming Students

Most of Incoming students will be placed in host family ( usually in an doctor's family) or live in student houses with Indonesian med student, depends on the local's arrangement. You could give your preference about Board and Lodging to Local Exchange Officer (LEO) For incoming SCOPE CIMSA FK UNAND. Living with Indonesian family or Indonesian student are designed in order to give you real pictures of Indonesian's way of living. You will study about Indonesian'cultures and can take a benefit from them.

an incoming student spent spare time by playing piano in host family's house

Meals will be provided twice a day, Breakfast and Dinner, and your host family will be served you on breakfast and dinner. It would be better if you can have breakfast and dinner with your host family regularly so you can mingle with them and get acquaintanced with your host family. in another times, you will have a dinner with SCOPE officer in restaurant and cafe. The officer will give you timetable about the regular dinner with SCOPE officer.

Lunch will be provided in Hospital's Cafetaria (near Department of Pediatrics in RSUP Dr.M.DJamil). SCOPE officer will arrange with cafetaria so you could have a lunch everyday with no charge.

Hospital Cafetaria

During exchange time, Incoming students are required to present about their health system, medical education and medical practice in their own country, to med students in Faculty of Medicine, Andalas University, so we can share about our system and take benefit from each others.

Finally, Please take your exchange time seriously. It's one month for a chance to study bunch of unique disease that might only can see in developed countries such as Indonesia. and you will not regret to choose Indonesia especially Padang as your desired country and city. Have a nice and incredible clinical clerkship in our teaching hospital!

Incoming Students with residents and Indonesian clinical student

Have a incredible clerkship!