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PROFESSIONAL EXCHANGE
SCOPE

We, JAMSA’s Standing Committee on Professional Exchange (SCOPE), welcomes you to the Faculty of Medical Sciences (FMS) here at the UWI Mona Campus! There are many things to see & do here which will enhance your medical career, starting with SCOPE. We operate through the International Federation of Medical Students Associations (IFMSA), which is a student-run organization that engages a network of 1.3 million medical students in 116 countries around the world. SCOPE promotes cultural understanding in a medical setting and allows students to be exposed to various medical systems

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OUR MISSION

The aim of SCOPE is to promote cultural understanding and co-operation amongst medical students and all health professionals, through the facilitation of international student exchanges. SCOPE aims to give all students the opportunity to learn about global health, and attains this partly by having its exchanges accredited by medical faculties across the world.

OUR HISTORY

The Standing Committee on Professional Exchange (SCOPE) was founded in 1951 and is one of the first standing committees within IFMSA. 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 around 13.000 medical students participating every year from more than 100 National Member Organizations.

 The SCOPE exchange program is a quality educational and cultural experience organized entirely by medical students with the help of their medical faculties.

OUR VISION

All students have the opportunity to learn about global health and attain this partly by having its exchanges accredited by medical faculties across the world.

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OUR MAIN TOPICS

  • To increase the mobility and to widen the horizon of medical students worldwide;

  • To provide equal chances to medical students to participate in a professional exchange, regardless of subjective, geographical, political, financial, sexual, cultural or religious backgrounds;

  • 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 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 vision on medical issues and their practical knowledge depending on the regulations of the host country;

  • To facilitate the connection between 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 resources 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 beliefs.

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