STANDING COMMITTEE ON

PROFESSIONAL EXCHANGE
Welcome to SCOPE!
  HISTORY
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.
  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.
  AIMS
 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 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 promote tolerance towards differences
and similarities within health and towards
patients regardless of their sex, religion, or
beliefs.
 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
 METHOD OF OPERRATION
Exchange Contracts are signed between
two participating National Member
Organizations and are of two types:

 Bilateral Contracts: where the

participating countries exchange two
students (one from each country)
between themselves.
 Unilateral Contracts: where a single
student participates in the exchange.
NiMSA SCOPE TEAM STRUCTURE

Director
Deputy director
Secretary
PRO
Financial Officer
Project Coordinator
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R TIME!