Introduction

SCOPE (Standing Committee on Professional Exchange) facilitates international medical exchanges for students to explore diverse health systems and cultures across more than 90 countries. Each year, over 13,000 students enhance their global health knowledge and intercultural understanding through this program. As IFMSA believes, these exchanges are key promoters of intercultural understanding and cooperation among medical students and health professionals, which are essential in today’s globalized world.

Goals

• To increase the mobility and to widen the horizon of medical students worldwide.
• To provide medical students with the possibility to experience healthcare in another culture with different health and education systems, and to learn how differences in culture and believes are of influence.
• 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.
• 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.
• To provide students with the chance to improve their medical knowledge, their practical knowledge depending on the regulations of the host country.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• To promote tolerance towards differences and similarities within health and towards patients regardless of their sex, religion, or believes.

Mission Statement

To promote cultural understanding and cooperation amongst medical students and all health professionals by facilitating international student exchanges. SCOPE aims to allow all students to learn about global health and attains this partly by having its exchanges accredited by medical faculties worldwide.

Field of Work

• Incoming Hosting and Outgoing Sending
• Exchange promotion
• Global Health Awareness and Cultural Understanding