Candidature for SCOME Regional Assistant for Africa 21/22 Term

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SCOME REGIONAL ASSISTANT FOR AFRICA CANDIDATURE

Simbas and SCOMEdians, Wakanda Forever!

Teachers are trained to teach, hence learners ought to be equipped with the appropriate methodology to optimise their learning experience. Just as teaching is a skill, so is learning.

Healthcare inequities and doctor shortages in the region can be immensely attributed to inadequate capacity in medical education, decreased innovations in medical training, and the inability to retain the doctors once they are trained. This is an impediment to attaining the Health Workforce 2030 Agenda, Universal Health Coverage and Sustainable Development Goal Three in the Region.

I am disappointed in my medical education especially with regards to my learning experience. Interacting with other colleagues in Ghana, Sierra Leone, Burkina Faso and Nigeria, and participating in SCOME sessions, SCORE sessions and Regional sessions during the General Assemblies in March and August 2021, as well as other SCOME and SCORE activities I have participated in, this unpleasant experience cuts across. Most of us are struggling to survive, while some are also planning to seek greener pastures.

Medical training, Capacity Building and Advocacy come with their intricacies in the region but I am positive that learners will build their capacity in medical education systems especially in andragogy, peer assistance and advocacy, so that they can play a major and active role in their self-driven medical education. This is where SCOME Africa should begin with, looking at our inactivity and the disheartening difficulty in advocacy and policy making.

This is the reason I dedicated my time to enriching my skills in analytical learning and critical thinking by both studying at Learner Clinic, Cledor Limited and later becoming a Teaching Assistant to facilitate students to also garner these skills, as well as actively participating in Education activities in my local University such as Health Outreaches, IFMSA Capacity Building Sessions in General Assemblies and Open Space Discussions and Research Education activities and workshops such as the PreAPRM Stream in Research Education; Advancing Development in Youth. I also took my time to gain leadership experience, teamwork and communication skills by being the Head of Publicity and Assistant Officer in Public Relations and Communications in the Health Science Students’ Association in my University (KNUST).

After having a year experience in SCOME as well as SCORE for two years, in my National Member Organisation and IFMSA, getting to know the challenges that SCOME is facing in the Africa Region, some of which include inactivity of SCOME in a number of NMOs and unresponsiveness of some NOMEs, I have developed a plan to get the Africa Region to take charge of their medical education, loving their medical experience and being advocates.

Give me the opportunity to be the next SCOME RA and I will diligently not disappoint you.

PRE APRM READY STREAM

PRE APRM READY STREAM

National General Assembly 21 Constitution Credential Committee

Plan of Action

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Regional Priorities and the Regional Strategy Effective Sustainability and Management Communication, Participation and Representation Member Engagement and Capacity Building External Affairs

REGIONAL PRIORITIES AND THE REGIONAL STRATEGY A number of NMOs do not have active Standing Committees. SCOME being affected the most and it all boils down to the fact that the NMOs are not informed, to some extent, do not know how to manage Standing Committees. Hence, I will work together with the regional team to have a strategy to prioritize the most relevant and efficient ways to get the NMOs active especially in the Standing Committees, SCOME included.

EFFECTIVE SUSTAINABILITY AND MANAGEMENT Looking through the Africa region folder (Wakanda Forever folder), the Standing Committee folder does not elaborate on the work of SCOME in the region. Hence, I will work on organizing the work of SCOME in the region by creating a SCOME-AR Google drive folder which will include members kit, NOMEs kit, Links to the scome google server and the Facebook groups. (All NOMEs must subscribe), SCOME workshops, SCOME’s approach to IFMSA Global Priorities and SCOME’s approach to the Africa Regional Priorities and Strategy which we will work on.

Communication is one of the greatest keys to effective sustainability and management. And so I will make contact with all NOMEs, through the NMOs server (the Presidents) to get their WhatsApp contacts/ social media they are comfortable with and put them in the NOMEs group Baseline Assessment and Needs Assessment of SCOME in the Africa Region. It is important to ascertain if the NOMEs; Have access to internet and laptop inclusive, Have knowledge on use of Google Suite and Zoom (especially the NOMEs) and have established the structure of SCOME in their NMOs. It is important to also orient the NOMEs on SCOME, on their role as NOME, on assisting to build better SCOME structures in their NMOs especially to have a NOMEs email for easy handing over and activity planning.

One of the first things I will do when I am appointed into office is to plan my activities for the term. These are activities will be my main focus: the Africa Regional Meeting, SCOME sessions, more pressing webinars especially on medical education systems and student led action Streams [Online Workshops]

COMMUNICATION, PARTICIPATION AND REPRESENTATION There are thirty NMOs in the Africa Region. Out of these, twenty three are full members, yet only twelve of these NMOs are SCOME active. One of the reasons for this problem is the little knowledge the NMOs have on Standing Committees. Another reason is poor communication between the Regional Assistant and the NOMEs and poorer communication between the NOMEs and the General members in their NMO; the NOMEs do not share opportunities and activities that are shared through the official mail to the general members. During the 20/21 term, a WhatsApp group was created for the NOMEs. I am going to continue with this strategy but in addition to that I will build capacity in the NOMEs in Public Relation using social media- WhatsApp. I am going to organise sessions aimed at helping general members and the NOMEs in understanding and involving in SCOME-led initiatives especially in their NMOs and then enable them to activate SCOME in their NMOs. MEMBER ENGAGEMENT AND CAPACITY BUILDING Member engagement in the Region is going to be a tough one since more than half of the NMOs are not even SCOME active so it is important for the plan to activate these NMOs be as detailed as possible that is why I will create a calendar for Activities, for starters, activities on SCOME awareness [SCOME Awareness Campaign], activities on medical education knowledge, social accountability etc [the SCOME documents] and a TMET if possible.

I am also going to encourage NOMEs to get their members to join the Facebook group and possibly the SCOME server. I will assist the NOMEs to plan their activities for their NMOs for the term and draw a calendar for their activities.

EXTERNAL AFFAIRS The region is lagging behind when it comes to External Affairs and policy implementation. During my term we will work on conducting stakeholder analysis and mapping of agencies working in the field of medical education and start drafting memoranda of understanding.

EYRAM AKU FEGLO GHANAIAN. +233(0) 506077835 eyramakufeglo@gmail.com

_____________________________________________________________________________________ PROFESSIONAL STATEMENT I believe that the basic cause, in human oriented problems, is knowledge and capacity inadequacy. I am dedicated to increasing my knowledge and building my capacity in order to empower young people, and participate effectively in local, national, regional and global development.

LANGUAGE English SKILLS Leadership Strategic Planning Facilitation Secretarial and Management Activity Planning And Project Management

Public Relations EmoEles, Self-Directed Learning System 4MAT Learning System Google Workspace

WORK EXPERIENCE SEPTEMBER 2017 – MARCH 2020

Teaching Assistant for EmoEles Study Program, Cledor Limited, Accra-Ghana LEADERSHIP ROLES OCTOBER 2020 – PRESENT

Head Of the Publicity Committee, The Health Sciences Students’ Association (KNUST) MAY 2021

Leader, Sub Group of the Gold Exploration and Residential Project of the Head of States Awards Scheme (THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL AWARD IN GHANA) FEBRUARY 2021

Leader of the Standing Committee on Youth Empowerment/Engagement Group, Africa Policy Hackathon (IFMSA POLICY AND ADVOCACY CAMPAIGN) INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF MEDICAL STUDENTS’ ASSOCIATION (IFMSA) ACTIVITIES AUGUST 2021

Delegate, Online General Assembly (AUGUST MEETING) SCOME Sessions Africa Regional Sessions JULY 2021

Participant, AMEE (ASSOCIATION FOR MEDICAL EDUCATION IN EUROPE) AND STUDENTS WEBINAR JUNE 2021

Participant, RESEARCH EDUCATION; ADVANCING DEVELOPMENT IN YOUTH (READY) STREAM (Pre ASIA PACIFIC REGIONAL MEETING)

JUNE 2021

Participant, Capacity Building Festival (CB FEST) Open Space Discussion for Capacity Building Representatives

MARCH 2021

Delegate, Online General Assembly (MARCH MEETING) National Member Organization Management Sessions Africa Regional Sessions

JANUARY 2021 - FEBRUARY 2021

Participant, POLICY AND ADVOCACY WEBINAR, IFMSA POLICY AND ADVOCACY CAMPAIGN

EDUCATION SEPTEMBER 2017 – PRESENT

Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery, KWAME NKRUMAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (in progress) Bachelor of Science in Human Biology, KWAME NKRUMAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (June 2020)

SEPTEMBER 2014 - APRIL 2017

WEST AFRICAN SENIOR CERTIFICATE EXAMINATION, ST. ROSE’S HIGH SCHOOL, AKWATIA Program Studied – General Science (BIOLOGY, PHYSICS, CHEMISTRY AND ELECTIVE MATHEMATICS) and Four Core Courses; ENGLISH, CORE MATHEMATICS, INTEGRATED SCIENCE AND SOCIAL STUDIES.

Thank you

JANUARY 2013 – APRIL 2013

STUDENT IN SELF-DRIVEN LEARNING, LEARNER CLINIC, CLEDOR LIMITED