Word of Isfahan SCOME Officer Word of Vice Officer of Isfahan SCOME Action Plan How I see SCOME, now and then‌ Isf SCOME Album Medical Education is just about every thing Doctor-patient relationship, science or art? Team working Have you ever heard of systematic medicine? Time Management what you will read in our next
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Word of Isfahan SCOME Officer Babak Hoseinzadeh Officer of Isfahan SCOME– IRAN IFMSA
When I first heard about IFMSA I was perfectly attracted to SCOME from the beginning! You might ask why! From first years of college entrance or even when I was a high school student, I always looked for ways to improve education, since I thought education as any other system needs updates if desired to work efficient. Even I became interested to officially start reading about medical education when I find out such a course exists! I was alone since then, doing scattered medical education projects with those few whom I knew! Then I knew about SCOME committee and IFMSA where I could bring my dreams true! In fact there were plenty of eager students who could understand me and helped me work together! Nothing was better than this! SCOME is a place who fulfills needs of challenging students who look for best! They make their objective ideas projects and then they do it and finally get the satisfaction of their own result! Where you can do, learn, teach, work, make friends and finally enjoy a responsible medical student’s life!
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Word of Vice Officer of Isfahan SCOME Sarah Hoseinpoor Vice Officer of Isfahan SCOME—IRAN IFMSA
When I first heard of ―IFMSA‖ , based on what these letters stand for, I thought It should have something to do with medical students training, because as you hear the word ―medical student ― what comes to your mind is education, teaching, and learning. When I knew more, I realized this word was a world! It was just a small part of IFMSA related to medical students training, called SCOME, ―the standing committee on medical education‖. Since I started medicine, I had so much to complain, from why I should go through this compact curriculum to why I have to pass this course and how boring it is to be a passive silent listener who is being lectured all day long, to innocent dreams of how fun it could be if I could teach and searching through ways which could make what I read, stay in my mind! Knowing more about what SCOME is and realizing it would be the place for me. That is why I first joined SCOME. We
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started all by our own motivations! Within this six months of working there as the vice officer of SCOME committee of IFMSA-Isfahan, it was great. We did quite a lot. Getting other students to know about us, inviting them for meeting sessions, getting them more interested to join and starting programs with them, was absolutely what I was looking for! As it passes every day, I get more interested in SCOME activities and become more persuaded that I can make change! You will never know what I say until you join this!
Action Plan What is SCOME about
Health care is changing at an unprecedented rate and at multiple fonts. Technology has revolutionized archaic diagnostic and therapeutic procedures. Medical science has increased our understanding of the body and created an explosion of new information. Patients are increasingly questioning and less trusting their doctors. However, medical schools are not or only slowly introducing changes in our curriculum. Teachers at many medical faculties are not educated to teach, they are doctors and mostly lack knowledge of how to show their skills to their
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students. We question that students educated in a so-called traditional curriculum are able to face the needs of healthcare in a modern society. Scientific data show that modern medical curricula are a lot more likely to teach students in an appropriate way in order to create doctors equipped with various skills and knowledge. Although there are a number of innovative approaches to teaching medicine, partly based on findings of cognitive science, change in medical curricula occurs slowly and at a few medical schools. The need for change is either not recognized or ignored in many universities. As medical students are directly exposed to medical curricula, they should rightfully be assumed to be experts on their educational system and should therefore have an influence on the creation of new curricula. From IFMSA’S experience, it is often the medical students who are the strongest proponents for adapting their education to needs of their community. Here SCOME enters the game. We try to promote modern medical education. Convinced by many positive examples we go on that mission by teaching and training students, teachers and professors, exchanging experience and spreading information. As a global grassroots organization of medical students locally active in more than 94 countries worldwide, IFMSA has made meaningful contribution to improve medical education over the last decades. Our action plan is categorized in three fields:
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Locally: Providing some additional courses useful for medical students Facilitate discussions between students and faculty Participating in the evaluating process Improve medical education Contribute to SCOME projects and start new national ones Collect local students’ opinions and try to implement them Represent local students in faculty and university boards International projects: Database projects: The main objective of these projects is to collect information about curricula, residencies and so on to make it available for all medical students Research in medical education: Therefore we work together with the scientific students’ conferences where we initiate medical education sessions and provide workshops. Furthermore we have our own research projects. Training: To improve our knowledge and skills we organize training workshops on the topics of implementation of the BOLOGNA process in medical education.
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Courses: After students find a lack of a special topic in their curriculum, they initiate courses. Students also invite guest speakers and experts themselves. If these courses lead to success and interests of students is high enough, the medical school will accept to integrate them in the curriculum eventually. There are also many courses run by students as peer educators. International lobby: We cooperate with international organizations dealing with medical education and we represent opinions and visions of medical students’ worldwide. Internationally this is mainly done through IFMSA’S Liaison officer on medical education issues who is the student member of the executive boards of world federation for medical education (WFME) and the association for medical education in Europe (AMEE). NOMEs should work in a similar way on a national level with their national associations for medical education.
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How I see SCOME, now and then… Afshin Najafi Public Relations Unit Supervisor of Isfahan SCOME-IRAN IFMSA
For the first time I was told about "SCOME ―, I thought it stands for standard center for money earning! Then when first Isfahan IFMSA conference was hold in our collage, I knew it was about medical educations .I searched over web, asked friends and what it was all about made me interested to join! Joining SCOME made me realize how easy it is to learn more, even teach and make a step to start a change! A personal experience of mine was presenting a clinical case in anatomy class of first year medical students to give them the satisfaction and joy of how necessary it is to pass basic sciences for a better clinical insight and patient management. It was absolutely fun! At the end of the story I would tell you this, I would tell you what SCOME has told me, I will tell you what SCOME is trying to tell every medical student ―attack your fears to make a change, share your thoughts, your glowing night dreams will come true!‖
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Medical Education is just about every thing Reyhaneh Montazeri Member of Isfahan SCOME— IRAN IFMSA
Medical ethics is a system of moral principles that apply values and judgments to the practice of medicine. Historically, Western medical ethics may be traced to guidelines on the duty of physicians in antiquity, such as the Hippocratic Oath. General Medical Council provides clear overall modern guidance in the form of its 'Good Medical Practice' statement. Other organizations such as the Medical Protection Society and a number of university department, are often consulted by British doctors regarding issues relating to ethics. Euthanasia is a demanding subject of medical ethics! Euthanasia known as assisted suicide, physician-assisted suicide (dying) , doctor-assisted dying (suicide) , and more loosely termed mercy killing, basically means to take a deliberate action with the express intention of ending a life to relieve intractable (persistent, unstoppable) suffering. Some interpret euthanasia as the practice of ending a life in a painless manner… SCOME is here to help you know and learn more about your occupational ethics, a tool to make you a more resourceful professional physician to help! Isn’t this exactly why you choose to study medicine?!
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Doctor-patient relationship, science or art? Erfan Parvaneh Member of Isfahan SCOME—IRAN IFMSA
Doctor-patient relationship starts from admitting of a patient in a hospital or office and ends when he or she is dismissed. It is a fact that this relationship can affect cure of a patient. Medicine is a combination of science and art. It is true that managemen of a patient needs a good base of science but needs a perfect soul connection between the patient and his/ her physician. Talking to a patient about his or her cancer, who also has a history of MI needs policy. So as medical students, not only we need strong scientific bases but also the art and policy to deal with our patients, giving them the power to fight their disease. This also why IFMSA has designed SCOME to help medical students being train to be what they have to be! Let’s start learning scientific art together, hands in hands, in SCOME, standing committee on medical education!
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Team working Pegah Fatehi Member of Isfahan SCOME—IRAN IFMSA We appeared because of the zygosis of two cells called sperm and egg and now we exist because of different organs working together. Each of our organs is made of million cells and has a specific duty. We have a heart to pump the blood, a brain to think and control other organs, kidneys to filtrate the blood and two eyes to see everything happening around us. Exactly the same pattern exists in the universe. Humans with the same attitude, inspiration and talent gather together and build a team and start working to catch a goal. We as a human are a part of the universe and because of the conscious decision we have made to become a doctor, now we are a part of the medical community. The medical community acts like the heart in the body. If the heart does not work properly, the whole body suffers from weakness. Similarly if the medical community does not work well, all human beings suffer! So, we as the heart’s cells of the society should work as a Syncytium. I mean we should hold each other’s hands and help patients gain their health again and it would not be accessible except with working in a team. This is pretty why IFMSA has designed SCOME, standing committee on medical education with the hope of us, gathering together help to achieve a better quality of education, not only for us as medical students, also for people who see us as their hope and key to safe and sound life! So lets kindly shake hands and work for the best!
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Have you ever heard of systematic medicine? Hamid reza Jafari Member of Isfahan SCOME— IRAN IFMSA
From more than 1000 years ago, every human soul looked for eternity which some believed was health and they believed sickness brought darkness in their lives. Now, it is myth among medical practitioners that they choose this path to do some good which is giving patients back their lost treasure. Really, what the life would be if it were full of pain and anxiety. After reading all those medical books and passing exams, here we are in front of a patient who seeks information and treatment. This time it is real and we alone should decide this person’s destiny. What will be your first move? Systematic medicine, a new term of medical approach, is an arranged algorithm that helps new medical students reach a diagnosis not only in less time but also more efficiently. This way, patients don’t have to pay huge amount of money on expensive unnecessary approaches. These are all new medical techniques we are not being learnt in our medical schools. We need to look for new sources and more up dated data bases to go through to learn more. This is not possible if we are alone. That’s why educational committees like SCOME are designed to bring us together to do more. Let’s do our best, so reach the best of what our education deservs!
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Time management: Rana Saleh Member of Isfahan SCOME—IRAN IFMSA Time management is the art of arranging, organizing, scheduling, and budgeting one’s time for the purpose of generating more effective work and productivity . as a medical student This is surely not necessary to mention how important it is to get the best benefit of your time, as medical students usually complain how they are always in short of time! management is Time management may be aided by a range of skills, tools, and techniques used to manage handling what you first need to do and what to postpone which professionally is called priority. Here is where SCOME enters the game by teaching you life skills of a medical student including timing! Why use time management skills? It's important that you develop effective strategies for managing your time to balance the conflicting demands of time for study, leisure, earning money and jobhunting. Time management skills are valuable in jobhunting, but also in many other aspects of life: from revising for examinations to working in a vacation job. Sometimes it may seem that there isn't enough time to do eve-
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rything that you need to. This can lead to a build up of stress. When revising for examinations, or during your final year when you have to combine the pressures of intensive study with finding time to apply for jobs good management of your time can be particularly important. Once we have identified ways in which we can improve the management of our time, we can begin to adjust our routines and patterns of behaviour to reduce any time-related stress in our lives. You can use these techniques to improve your time management skills: 1. Be Clear about Goals and Objective Before you set out get clarity on your goals and objectives. 2. Schedule your Time If you want to have good time management skills, the first thing you will need is a calendar. Stuff has to get scheduled. If you don’t use a calendar then the dreaded jobs will never get done. 3. Delegate When Possible If you find after doing up your schedule that there isn’t much time left over, then think about delegating work. If you work alone, get a virtual assistant. 4. Monitor How you Spend Your Time you should start to monitor your time and see how you are spending it daily. 5. Avoid Multitasking
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Human beings can’t multitask (no, not even women). Our brains have become good at task switching, but cannot actually focus on two things at once. If we try to do more than one thing at the same time we lose time refocusing on the new task. 6. Do a Regular Mind Sweep Do a regular mind sweep where you get a piece of paper and write down everything you need to do. Don’t categorize it. Just dump it all onto a piece of paper. 7. Exercise Get regular exercise to give you energy, reduce your stress and help you to focus. 8. Eat Healthily 9. Slow down and breathe Lack of oxygen will make you slow and sluggish, which will affect your performance. The more you rush about from task to task the less you will achieve.
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Imprint Editor in Chief Sarah Hoseinpoor Layout / Design Afshin Najafi Authors Babak Hoseinzadeh Sarah Hoseinpoor Afshin Najafi Reyhaneh Montazeri Erfan Parvaneh Pegah Fatehi Hamid reza Jafari Rana Saleh
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