WHAT IS SCOPE? WHAT IS SCORE?

The Standing Committee on Professional Exchange (SCOPE) was founded in 1951 and is one of the first standing committees within IFMSA. It has grown into one of the most extensive student-run exchange programs in the world, with around 13.000 medical students participating every year from more than 100 National Member Organizations (NMOs). The aim of SCOPE is to promote cultural understanding and cooperation amongst medical students and all health professionals, through the facilitation of 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 across the world.

The Standing Committee on Research Exchange (SCORE) was founded in 1991 with the objective of giving students an opportunity of improving their skills in research in other learning settings. Presently, SCORE involves more than 80 active NMOs, offering over 1.600 research projects to provide over 3.000 healthcare students worldwide the opportunity to participate in the IFMSA Research Exchange program and learn the basic principles of medical research such as literature studies, collecting data, scientific writing, lab work, statistics and ethical aspects related to the medicine. The aim of SCORE is to develop both culturally sensitive students and skilled researchers intent on shaping the world of science.

SCOPE and SCORE allow students to participate in a 4-week clerkship or 4-week research project, respectively, in one of the countries that BeMSA has signed a contract with.

For whom?

- SCOPE: medical students starting from 3rd Bachelor of Medicine with at least 45 credits. - SCORE: Medical students and students in the Biomedical Fields according to each Local Committees' rules of the hosting country