IFMSA Student

IFMSA Professional Exchange

The IFMSA (International Federation of Medical Students' Associations) brings you the largest student exchange program in the world! With dozens of countries to choose from and hundreds of cities to discover...

The type of SCOPE clerkships


Pre-clinical Clerkship: is defined as the stay of a student working or studying in a pre-clinical department at a medical faculty/school or hospital.

Clinical Clerkship: is defined as the stay of a student in a clinical department of a hospital or clinic, or attached to a general practitioner.








Clerkships can be offered basically in all clinical and pre-clinical fields of medicine.The duration of a clerkship is four weeks. Clerkships are given in English or in the language of the country.Contracts among organizations, members of IFMSA, can be signed on bilateral or unilateral basis.
Bilateral contract

IFMSA member, participated in SCOPE is supposed to host student from another organization for free of charge. The student of hosted country will be also accepted free of charge to his/her desired country.
Bilateral exchanges are the basis of the IFMSA exchange program.

Unilateral contract

Only students from one organization will take part in the program. Special conditions may be specified in the contract form. Student should pay all expenses to the host organization.


For both bilateral and unilateral exchanges students should cover the insurance, travel expenses and pocket money by themselves.At the end of the clerkship after fulfilling all exchange program's conditions, student will obtain the SCOPE IFMSA Certificate.


Structure of National Exchange Program
The basis for exchange is the bilateral exchange contracts that are signed on IFMSA's General Assembly in August between two National Exchange Officers of two different countries, IFMSA National Members Organisations. The contract will decide how many students, units, which will be exchanged during the coming year between the two countries.

The National Exchange Officer (NEO) is responsible for the exchange as a whole on both the national and international level. This means besides signing the bilateral exchange contracts, he/she administrates the application procedure for the students applying for a clerkship from the own country. He/she communicates with the other NEOs of information about acceptance of students for clerkship. The NEO is also the person who communicates with the local organising committee within his/her organization and takes care if exchange program is carried out according to the contract.

The Local Committee receives the exchange students. A local committee usually constitutes one medical school or faculty. Nowadays there are 676 Local committees involved in IFMSA activities. The actual exchange work is carried out here. The Local Exchange Officer (LEO) is in charge of arranging board and lodging for the incoming student, which it given to the student free of charge on a bilateral basis. It means that the students going from this country will be offered the same services for free when they are in their exchange country. The local committee also supplies the student with the appropriate contacts with a supervising doctor at the hospital for the rotation in the ward.


There are several other ways to accommodate the exchangees. Sometimes students live in student dormitories, doctors' homes or in ordinary families. In such cases the registration fee that the national exchange committee charges their outgoing students going abroad helps to cover the expenses that the local committee has for the incoming students.

How to Apply SCOPE IFMSA Professional Exchange ?

• Read the Exchange Condition of Indonesia in this website http://ifmsa.net/public/ecscope.php?id=89
  
• Contact your IFMSA-related organization FIRST. your National exchange officer (NEO) of your country would make an contract with NEO Indonesia in SCOPE IFMSA regulation and bylaws, then, NEO Indonesia will arrange you to do clinical clerkship in Faculty of Medicine, Andalas University/ Dr. M Djamil Central General Hospital
• Prepare all the document and send them to your NEO
• Wait until LEO of SCOPE CIMSA FK UNAND send you Card of Acceptance (CA) and Invitation Letter (IL)
• Then Send Card of Confirmation (CC)
• Prepare for the Clerkship

Fee for your clerkship :

1. Bilateral Contract : Free
2. Unilateral Contract : 280 euro + 50 euro (administration fee). Pay upon arrival

Fee will cover your tuition fee, boarding,lodging, and social program during your 4 weeks of Clerkship


Message from SCOPE IFMSA Director

Pablo Vega

Scope Director 2010-2011

As a future physician, experience in the global community and sensitivity to changes throughout the world helps create a better understanding of the state of health and healthcare in other countries besides our own. This makes futures doctors vectors for change within society. Experience practicing medicine in a foreign country broadens typical conceptions of medical practice, as it demonstrates how common health issues are managed in different cultures and healthcare systems.

IFMSA has been the major exchange facilitator among medical students since 1951. Each year, over 8000 medical students from 81 countries have the opportunity to complete a clinical clerkship abroad. What makes this program so unique? Every aspect of these exchanges are run by students, altogether comprising more than 700 local exchange chapters or committees. Medical students within the Federation play nearly all the key roles in the organization of exchanges, from local representation in each university, to the national officer representing each national member organization (NMO) at general assemblies, to the international team overseeing exchanges on an international level. Together, each of these members play a vital role in the inner workings of the world’s largest student-run exchange program.

In SCOPE, we are aware that medical education is not the same in every country, for that reason we take great care in developing and maintaining the academic quality of the clerkship. In answers to concerns over this matter, we developed and implemented a logbook, in which we standardized clerkship guidelines, including checklists obtained from recognized international medical associations. Because of these efforts, many students are able to receive credit in their home countries for the clerkships completed through SCOPE.

This website is created for you, the students planning to go on exchange. Now you can explore the world of SCOPE exchange and find information on the many different exchange chapters we offer. We try to improve these pages as much and as often as possible.

SCOPE is a cultural and educational experience like no other. It broadens the scope of the medical student education beyond the typical medical curriculum. By providing SCOPE exchanges, we have the power to change the mentalities of exchangees, building culturally competent future physicians. Make a change and go on exchange!

Yours,

Pablo Vega

Scope Director 2010-2011