ARTUR CARVALHO CANDIDATE FOR SCOME REGIONAL ASSISTANT FOR THE AMERICAS
MOTIVATIONAL LETTER Dear IFMSA, Americas Region and medical
of Medical Education 2016-2018, a national team of
education lovers,
IFMSA Brazil that works directly with our NOME helping with national e regional work of medical education.
My name is Artur Carvalho, I’m 23 years old and I’m
Through the national work I became closer to the
a fifth year medical student at the Federal
international work and at the start of 2017 I had the
University of Acre (UFAC), located at the city of Rio
chance to go to my first Regional Meeting at Peru, an
Branco (Brazil), I’m the current National Officer on
wonderful moment of sharing experiences, It was such
Medical Education for the term 2017-2018 and it is
an amazing experience that brought me even more
with a great pleasure that I’m here presenting you
motivation to keep working on medical issues until the
my candidature for SCOME RA for Americas.
moment that I applied for and became NOME of IFMSA Brazil, an institution that I’m so grateful for all
Well, my path on IFMSA started back there at the
the opportunities and growing experiences and for
end of 2014 when I started Medical School, even
making me who I am today.
before my classes have started I was already sure that I needed to be part of that federation that a
As NOME I went to my second Regional Meeting at
senior year student talked to me about. The classes
Paraguay, and for me it was totally different from my
started, and I joined the local committee of my
first experience, I noticed how much I had grown as a
university and didn’t take too long for me to fall in
person and as a medical education worker and
love with the Federation, and beyond that, because
because of that I enjoined even more and had been so
of a friend, that showed the whole world of medical
much more participative on the sessions, trying to
education, I fell in love with SCOME ever since.
show the experience and work of IFMSA Brazil on the context of Medical Education and learning with other
Through these years until now I worked with medical
NMOs and their work.
education and student representativity not only on IFMSA Brazil but also in my university as part of
Ok, Artur. But Why are you trying this position?
Academic Council of the course for three terms, always trying to help to improve the quality of my
Well, after all this time, experience and amazing
university in deferent ways. Allying my position on
opportunities that I had trough these years working on
the academic council and my work on IFMSA Brazil I
IFMSA Brazil and as a medical education lover, I think I
had the opportunity to promote a lot of activities
am really prepared to take the next step and help our
that not only lead to my university students
beloved Americas Region to grow even more on
knowledge that wasn’t approached on classes, but
medical education issues. I want to use all the
also the debate about the quality of our university in
experience that I have and If you allow me to, to do
local level.
my best as part of the International Team. All of this because simple because I love Medical Education.
On IFMSA Brazil I worked as LOME, Local President and wanting to share the experience and knowledge that IFMSA brought to me, I also have been NOME Assistant as part of the National Team
With love,
PLAN OF ACTION This plan was build based on the plan of action of the SCOME-D Elect, the LME Elect and on the SCOME Strategy that was approved on the last August Meeting with the intention to be more synchronized with the goals of the international work and also I brought somethings from my own experience working on IFMSA Brazil. Hope It finds You well. It was divided 4 pillars: - Diagnosis - To Capacitate - Collaboration - Regional Team and International Team
Diagnosis
To Capacitate
At first, I’d like to understand better the
- To promote OLMs about the work of
situation of SCOME in each NMO of our
SCOME at the international level, its mission,
region, this can be done by the NMO
vision, strategy and How can NOMEs help to
Report, through the former RA or talking
achieve our goals
directly with NOMEs - To promote the IFMSA Programs, working - Understand what NOMEs/NMOs
together with Programs Coordinators, not
understand about SCOME, what kind of
only talking about how to enroll activities, but
activity they develop (Student
also showing the importance of it for external
Representative Oriented or Project
representation of IFMSA,
Oriented) - To capacitate NOMEs about the process - What are the most important problems
of building a policy document and for what It
they face, what they have well stablished
can be used for, as external representation,
- What do they know about IFMSA
for example.
Programs and how to enroll on it - Show the importance of SCOME work not - Analyze the necessities of workshops
only as project oriented, but also as student
(TMET and AMET) on the NMOs.
representation oriented
Regional Team Collaboration
and International Team
- To stimulate NOMEs to work together on looking for solutions for problems that
- Respect above all things
they have common on their NMOs. It can be also done together with others
- To be committed on team building,
SCOME Ras, because maybe there are
understanding the limits of each member of
NMOs that already have faced the same
the teams and their skills and potentials, and
problem and they can share how they
through that build a collaborative work to
passed through this problem
make sure that the final product of our work will be high quality
- Standing Committee Collaboration – With others RAs and members of the
- To work with the CB IT to stimulate and
Regional Team, to promote policy
promote workshops related to SCOME in
documents and SWGs about topics that
Americas Region, making sure that it will
are important for the IFMSA work
quality.
- To improve communication and
- Develop high quality sessions for the
collaboration between NOMEs, not only
Regional Meeting and work together with
on whatsapp group, but also through e-
others SC to promote joint sessions, showing
mail, OLM and facebook group as well.
the importance of seeing things on different point of views and widening the analyzes.
- To attend the Americas Regional Meeting 2019 and to do my best to attend others important meetings that may have (including GAs)
- With the International Team, work on the update and elaboration of SCOME important documents, always stimulating the participation and inputs of the NMOs
CURRICULUM VITAE Personal Data Name: Artur Carvalho Lima
Age: 23 years old
Date of Birth: September 30rd, 1994 Academic Status: 5th Medical Student at Federal University of Acre (UFAC) Nationality: Brazilian Phone number: +5568999651452 e-mail: arturcal@gmail.com skype: artur_oak Languages: Portuguese (Native) English
Other Experience Class President - 2014 until now
Member of Medical Education Comission of the
Member of Student Council - 2014, 2015, 2016,
Federal Council of Medicine representing IFMSA
2017, 2018
Brazil
Student Associated of the Brazilian Medical
SWG to build SCOME Manual of IFMSA Brazil
Education Association (ABEM)
SWG to build "Events Manual" of IFMSA Brazil Coordinator of "Widening Participation on Medical
IFMSA Events 4 National General Assembly 2 Regional Meeting 1 General Assembly 1 Training New Trainers 2 Regional Assembly of IFMSA Brazil
Education", IFMSA Brazil's Policy Document More than 20 activities onf IFMSA Brazil Facilitator of SCOME Sessions on the 51th NGA Facilitator of SCOME Sessions at the 52th NGA Coordinator and Facilitator of SCOME Sessions at the 53th NGA 1 SCOME-related publications at Brazilian Medical Students (BMS)
IFMSA Experience LOME - 2014-2016 LC President 2016-2017 Member of National Team of Medical Education 2016-2018 NOME 2017-2018
Thank U!