REVENGE Ready For The New Version of Exchange is a Pre-Departure Training

REVENGE stands for Ready For The New Version of Exchange is a Pre-Departure Training with the theme Exchange Knight: Reach Your Dream Across The Ocean by SCOPE CIMSA FK UNPAD to prepare outgoings students from Padjadjaran University that have been accepted to IFMSA Professional Exchange Season 2023/2024. IFMSA Professional Exchange Program is an exchange where outgoings will experience a Clinical clerkship in one department in the destination country’s hospital. The exchange preparation that was previously named PDT: Tintin In TAIPEI was held via an online platform due to the COVID-19 pandemic that was still happening in Indonesia. And just like last year's PDT, this year’s exchange preparation is held via an online platform due to the COVID-19 pandemic that is still happening in Indonesia. REVENGE is held via zoom, on November 26th and 27th 2022.

REVENGE consisted of two zoom meetings: two main sessions on day 1 and one session on day 2. The first session was a presentation by Yasmin Zahrarianti Santosa as LEO from SCOPE CIMSA FK Unpad batch 2022/2023 titled “PreDeparture Training & IFMSA Database 101”. It’s about the exchange program, exchange documents, and exchange conditions that needed to be prepared by the outgoings before departure. Also, especially explanations about IFMSA Database. At the end of the session, the participants were given the opportunity to ask the speaker about stuff related to the exchange so that they could get a clear picture of it.

The second session was training about adaptation and communication skills during the exchange. To accomplish this aim, REVENGE invited the speaker from dr. Putri Azzahra Nur Azrina. She was a former staff of IFMSA Asia-Pacific Regional Team batch 2020 - 2022. In the training, she also shared her exchange experiences and how she will adapt to the environment in order to maximize the exchange opportunity. That’s all for the activities on the first day.

Then on the second day of REVENGE. The last session of the activities is a talk show about the global health system, social determinants of health, and exchange roles in those things by dr. Alvinsyah Pramono, MSCTS, MFarm. We hope that this activity can help outgoings to prepare the knowledge and skills in various matters, such as Global Health Issues, Bioethics, and Intercultural Knowledge that will be useful for the exchange later.

Are you worried about your exchange program? Need help with what to prepare while abroad? Or are you afraid of being unable to adapt to a new environment or culture? REVENGE comes to the rescue!

BY: CIMSA FK