MedSIN-KMSA Magazine Issue 2 Issue 2: May 21- January 22
MedSIN-Sudan KMSA
MedSIN-KMSA Publication
Contents Meet the Creators! ............. 1 MedSIN-KMSA Tour ............. 2 MedSIN-Sudan SNGA2021.. 4 Executive Board .................. 9 SCOPH .................................. 22 SCOME ................................. 30 SCORA .................................. 40 SCORP .................................. 58 SCORE .................................. 70 SCOPE .................................. 84 TSD ........................................ 98 PNTSD ................................... 106
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“You need to be aware of what others are doing, applaud their efforts, acknowledge their successes, and encourage them in their pursuits. When we all help one another, everybody wins.”
– Jim Stovall
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Meet Your Creators
Azahir Ibrahim | MedSIN-KMSA PNTSDD Batch 97 | Magazine Designer
Mohamed Ismail | PNTSDD GA Batch 97 | Magazine Translator
Islam Abdulmalik El-naeim Batch 97 | Magazine Translator
Fatima Omer Mohamed Batch 98 | Magazine Translator
* For more details about the SWG work check page number 111.
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MedSIN-KMSA Tour
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• To welcome our newest members in batch 98 and show them what MedSIN-KMSA is all about, we conducted MedSIN-KMSA Tour on the 13th and 15th September. As the name suggests, this activity was a series of sessions about our various standing committees, support divisions and executive board, hence taking the participants on an interactive tour. Thank you to all those who attended - it was a pleasure to have you!
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MedSIN-Sudan September National General Assembly 2021
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After one year since the last MedSIN-Sudan Regular General assembly, the excitement for this national general assembly was really something different. In order to ensure that our members are involved in this General assembly as much as they can, we started by sharing the call of the organizing committees with members and then sharing the call for the Session team, Support persons and Plenary team and in addition to that the call for the KMSA delegation. Delegation selection process by the means of interviews conducted by the acting president and two expert members. The total number of delegates was 27 members listed here. The general assembly started on the 8th of october in the grand holiday villa with the sponsorship of the world health organization and under theme COVID 19 Effect on SRHR and ended on 12th of october.
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As a leading LMO with such a legacy it was our responsibility to make this legacy continue and am talking about safe water supply sanitation and hygiene - WASH - and sudan tropical exchange program STEP so we applied to endorse those two project again under MedSIN-Sudan, Unfortunately only the first one got adopted but it’s a chance for improving and apply the project again after reevaluate it. You can find the two project proposals here.
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After the end of the general assembly and in order to strengthen the friendships and the spirit of being united one strong family we saw that having little fun with a reunion will raise the spirit after many circumstances that happened after the end of the general assemblly. A day out was spent and memories were made, Special thanks to Omer Abdalziz and Abubakr Abdallah (External affairs secretary for the last term) for organizing the day out <3.
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Executive Board
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The President
“Life is about accepting the challenges along the way, choosing to keep moving forward, and savoring the journey. Roy T. Bennett “ After being president since last april i can say that being president day by day become a lifestyle not only a position that you hold. Everyday facing many problems, conflicts and having new tasks to be done. Yet in those few months I can say that I became a totally different person with many new skills, knowledge and memories. I want to say that being a president for such great organization is an honor for me and a something that i should be proud of till my last day.
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Local Projects
• Since that we are planning to have a long term impact and a systemic impact and activities the need of having projects increased day by day. • Finalization of the Local Projects Regulations which was drafted by a working group Coordinated by me and Ayah.You can read the final regulations here here.. • After that we opened a call for project proposals in which we received a total of five project proposals. You can find them here. • The call for PPRC also opened and we elected 5 members to be the first ever KMSA PPRC. PPRC consist of,
Reem Imadeldin | 95 (Coordinator) Hassan Omer | 95
Rayan Mohamed | 96
Ashraf Asim | 95
Eyad Khalid | 97
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MedSIN- KMSA strategy:
MedSIN - KMSA has been dreaming by having a long term strategy to guide the next generation to the path that our successor started and i can say that this dream became true this term. After many internal discussions with other executive board members we agreed to start the work on a strategy. A call was open for other members to be part of the strategy team and the overall group was:
Ibrahim Mutasim (Coordinator)
Mohamed Hisham (Vice Coordinator)
Amr Kamal
Baraa Amin
Rawan Hassan
Razan Mohmmed
Nabta Seifelyazal
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After the group was appointed we started our work and with each day going on the feelings in the group became more excited to see the final draft and we are writing history. Thankfully the draft was shared you can find it here. Special thanks to the strategy team and their efforts.
External Representation and Opportunities:
• Since May I have been working to ensure the participation of MedSINKMSA Members in all external events. A total of 59 Support letters on different aspects such as National team support letters, National General assembly support letters and international opportunities. • Representing MedSIN-KMSA at National council meetings and official/ unofficial discussions. • Helping new LMOs that are taking their first steps in the Organization and facilitating introductory sessions for them. • Drafting and discussing the MOUs With external partners.
MedSIN - KMSA trimester report:
In order to maintain our voting right during each general assembly a trimester report should be delivered including all the activities and training that happened in the LMOs in order to evaluate it. You can find September to April reports here, and July to October reports here.
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Secretary General Achievements:
Name a better duo, we’ll wait... • Following our initial unofficial introductory meeting, we conducted our first official meeting on the 24th May as Secretary General and Secretary General Monitoring Assistant. Full House! • Since the beginning of May, interviews corresponding to the second call for assistants were conducted, followed by the coordination of a third and fourth call for assistants. • Thankfully, we now have 43 experienced and qualified people on our team - AKA 43 people in the right place at the right time doing the right thing. <3 Evaluation is • Mohamed has established a scoring and evaluation system to quantitatively and qualitatively assess each local officer and support division director’s monthly report, to improve their overall quality and make sure their content is comprehensive and well-written. Projects, Projects, Projects • We both continued working alongside some of the other officials in drafting MedSIN-KMSA’s Local Projects Regulations. • After collecting inputs on the regulations, the finalised MedSIN-KMSA Local Projects Regulations were adopted in an official Team of Officials Meeting on the 30th July. Yay! • Since then, we have received our first ever project proposal submissions and formed our first ever PPRC, which has worked very hard to review these proposals and provide recommendations on which ones should be adopted! We are also working on sharing infographics about our projects so as to make sure all our members are oriented about the process.
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MedSIN-KMSA Blacklist
• Throughout the second half of June, we worked on drafting MedSINKMSA’s Blacklist Regulations [Link] with Nabta Seifalyazal (SCORE 1st GA) and Ebtihal Nagi (Treasurer GA). • The purpose of these regulations is to ensure that all members are committed to attending activities once they have been selected, and that they abide by any other important guidelines as determined by the activity coordinator. Mental Health Matters • During early June, the first round of Mental Health Calls with each of KMSA’s officials was successfully carried out to check up on their mental health, assess how we can assist in managing their workload in the upcoming period of time and to generally provide emotional support. Representing KMSA • Ayah attended MedSIN-Sudan’s Urgent May 2021 General Assembly as a KMSA representative as well as Head of Delegation. • She has also represented KMSA in a total of five national council meetings over the past months. National Council meetings bring together LMO representatives (usually LMO Presidents) to discuss MedSIN-Sudan’s ongoing issues and possible ways forwards.
Half-Term Report [Link [Link]]
• A Half-Term Report that describes all of MedSIN-KMSA’s achievements, activities, obstacles and future plans since the beginning of the term up until July was created and shared in the hopes of fulfilling our goal of improving KMSA’s level of transparency and we hope you all learnt something new from reading it. • We also shared an evaluation form with the report that allowed us to conduct a Half-Term Evaluation and assess the progress we have made so far.
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Strategy
• Mohamed has been coordinating the MedSIN-KMSA Strategy SWG along with KMSA President, Ibrahim.
Code of Conduct
• MedSIN-KMSA’s existing Code of Conduct has been analysed and reviewed to evaluate potential areas of improvement. • We envision a CoC that will make MedSIN-KMSA activities an enjoyable experience for absolutely everyone. A draft of the CoC [Link] has been created and shared, so we’re almost there! This draft is currently being reviewed to make sure it aligns with all of KMSA’s other regulations.
External Partners Database
• Along with the Treasurer and his General Assistants, we have been working on contacting previous KMSA officials and creating a database that contains details on all of our LMO’s collaborations in preparation for setting up sustainable partnerships in future terms.
Members Folder [Link [Link]]
• In collaboration with the rest of the Local Team, KMSA Members’ Folder has been updated and shared. This folder includes all the important documents and resources related to our activities as well as other documents related to each standing committee and support division’s work.
More TOMs :)
• As you can imagine, this past period has been filled with Team of Officials Meetings - TOMs (7) up to (18) to be exact. Ayah was responsible for writing minutes for each of these meetings and it was a pleasure to open calls for observers for TOMs (10), (11), (12), (13) and (18). It was lovely to meet some of you and have you at our meetings!
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Nothing Interesting Here
• A lot of regular work was done over the past few months, such as reviewing, providing feedback on and approving activity proposals and attending Executive Board and External Affairs Secretary meetings.
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Treasurer
“Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is a success” ~Henry Ford. The past period up to the moment I wrote the text you are reading right now was a very hectic but exciting period that taught me a lot. I can’t describe the amount of experience and skills that I gained and the connections that I made. I couldn’t do what’s written below without the help of my assistants -Ebtihal & Samar- and the fellow EB. It was my honor to serve you and work as the first ever Treasurer for KMSA. Enjoy reading!
Achievements:
Preparing the base: In order to start well and have smooth financial operations: • Ebtihal Nagi and Sammar Elwasila were appointed as General Assistants. • Financial Reports` templates were created for the sake of good and clear documentation. • Financial Guidelines were drafted to be implemented at all MedSIN-KMSA activities and programs to organize their financial status and needs. External Partners Database: External partners database was created to ensure a sustainable relationship in MedSIN-KMSA future. It contains all the donors and sponsors who supported the LT during the past years, and the other organizations that the LT made collaborations with. The work in creating this database was done in collaboration with the SecGen through reviewing the old documents and reports, and contacting the current and old Officials to collect their data, shout-out to them.
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Grants Manual:
Establishment of grants` manual to insure a good base for MedSIN KMSA local team members in applying for grants. It’s a booklet that contains IFMSA and any other international and national grants details such as their dates, criteria, required documents and other information. This Manual also contains some tips regarding the grants applications. This manual was done with the coordination of Ebtihal and consultation of some experts.
Financial week:
Preparation of financial week proposal , which is a workshop in different topics related to finances to raise the members’ capacity in the different financial aspects in collaboration with the TSD. Unfortunately due to the unstable situation, it’s postponed to be conducted in the next term.
Regular financial follow-up:
It’s supposed to be the simplest part of the work, but actually here is where most of the problems, action and drama happen. It’s not “regular” at all !! • Reviewing the budget for each activity to ensure that it’s reasonable and applicable. • Following up and monitoring financial status of all KMSA activities to get out with the highest quality, and insure that all operations are aligned with the approved budget. • Clearance of all completed activities with their coordinators to ensure an excellent monitoring process for all incomes and expenses that belong to different standing committees and support divisions. The last thing you can wish for is someone losing some receipts! • Monitoring the fundraising process for ongoing activities, helping the fundraising letters issuing, and providing support whenever is needed. • Coordination of the financial committees for some activities and collaborations.
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External representation:
I worked on signing an Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for activity collaboration, following up with this activity and connecting the partners. Moreover, as part of the EB, I attended a lot of external meetings to represent our LMO whether NCs or other discussions.
KMSA Tour:
I coordinated KMSA tour activity for the new batch to orient them about the local team and how to get involved.
Meetings:
Probably you are now wondering why I put the meetings in the achievements part. But I’m going to tell you that steadfastness after attending a TOM every 3 weeks (sometimes more), monthly National Council meetings, random meetings with the assistants, almost weekly Secretariat meetings and DAILY EB meetings is indeed an achievement.
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• Interviewing and selecting KMSA delegation to MedSIN-Sudan September National GA. • Preparing the LMO half term report submitted to National EB. • Finalizating the end term report for documentation of the treasurer team’s work throughout the term. I want y’all to know that you’re more than welcome to approach each one of us at any time you have questions or queries, and we’ll do all the possible and some imposibles to help! On Behalf of the Treasurer’s Team, Ahmed Rifaat Ali, MedSIN-KMSA LT Treasurer 2020/21. Email address: medsin.kmsa.treasurer@gmail.com Personal contact info: rifaatahmd@gmail.com / +249919790109
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Ibrahim Mutasim | MedSIN-KMSA Presidant Batch 95
Ahmed Rifaat| MedSIN-KMSA Treasurer Batch 96
Ayah Suliman | MedSIN-KMSA SecGen Batch 95
Ebtihal Naji | Treasurer GA Batch 97
Sammar Elwasila | Treasurer GA Batch 95
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Mohamed Hisham | SecGen MA Batch 96
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There’s no human endeavor outside the realm of public health” - William Bill Foege “Good day ladies and gentlemen, you’re reading to us; MedSINKMSA SCOPH LT on MedSIN-KMSA Magazine 2nd issue, anddd the headlines:” Achievements:
Since the last issue of MedSIN-KMSA’s magazine a couple of incredibly interesting things happened in our standing committee; MOST interestingly, We have the following:
Fully-assembled Orange Phamily!!
Starting off with the completion of our AMAZING team by the appointment of: ◦ Duaa Elshafey as LPO’s 1st General Assistant ◦ Neelya Nour as LPO’s Publication Assistant
Commit to Quit?
• And right after we worked on organizing our very first activity of the term celebrating in it the World No Tobacco Day under the theme: “Commit Commit to Quit”, it was held over two days including: Quit
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◦ An introductory session on Monday the 7th of June 2021, facilitated by: Mohamed Osman, SCOPH Director. ◦ A debate on Wednesday 9th of June of 2021 Coordinated by: Sami Eltalib, Doctor & Public Health Activist.
World Blood Donor’s Day!!
• sOOn after, it was time to celebrate World Blood Donor day, day under the WHO’s Slogan; Give Blood & Keep the World Beating. ◦ We did this by sending various infographics and videos regarding Blood Donation in our SCOPHeroes 2020/2021 Whatsapp Group all throughout Monday, June the 14th 2021.
Just to fire things up more, Thanks to the team’s efforts both activities; Commit to Quit & World Blood Donor Day were ENROLLED under SCOPH’s International Projects of Noncommunicable Diseases & Health Systems respectively.
Newcomers? A Tour?
Mid September, we welcomed our 2021 freshmen and of course we had to introduce them to the Phamily, as a part of MedSIN-KMSA newcomers tour, Baraa & Neelya amazingly co-facilitated an introductory session giving batch 98 a tour in SCOPH, and we’ve harvested a lot of fruits as many of the newcomers showed interest in SCOPH and participated in its activities.
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Maximize the impact? Local Projects.
Upon finalizing the work on the Local Projects IOGs we’ve told you about in the previous issue, it was finally time to establish a SWG to involve our HEROES in writing marvelous local projects proposals, spicing things a bit more, we actually established not one but 2 SWGs who wrote 2 PROJECTS PROPOSALS, all over December! And both proposals were submitted to the EB. SWGs structure: ◦ Activity Coordinator: Shahd Abouda (LPO) ◦ SWG A Supervisor: Shahd Abouda. Head: Mohamed Hisham. Members: Lina Abdeen | Lujain Almutaz | Omer Adil. ◦ SWG B Supervisor: Duaa El-Shafey. Supervisor: Shahd Abouda. Head: Baraa Amin. Head Members: Baraa Mamoun | Neelya Nour | Ahmed Abulatti.
What could be a better term-ending rather than an ORANGE WEEK?
Being the core of our work, having a CB is an inevitable activity of every term. Accordingly we kept the best for the last and organized a series of capacity building sessions and training over the pace of five days targeting all our members whether basic or advanced. Other LESS interesting things took place as well: ◦ Formulation and official adoption of our MedSIN-KMSA SCOPH IOGs for the term. ◦ Preparation of the SCOPHeroes Database, which includes the Names, Batches, E-mail Addresses and Phone Numbers of all the registered MedSIN-KMSA SCOPH members of the term. ◦ Establishment of Buddy Groups, In a unique initiative, we’ve divided our lovely members into four Buddy Groups each supervised by an assistant and all coordinated by the LPO to enhance participation, ease evaluation and strengthen relationships.
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Concluding our achievements with the LEAST interesting; ◦ Attending TOMs over and over. ◦ Arranging Monthly LT Meetings as well as Urgent Meetings. ◦ Helding a Second Members Meeting on Saturday the 5th of June 2021. ◦ Submitting Reports.
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SCOPH Best Members Selection & Announcement!!
During the past period, we’ve been tracking our members’ commitment, dedication and enthusiasm, and accordingly we’ve announced our FIVE BEST MEMBERS for July and August based on their meetings and activities attendance, responsiveness and representation, and they were, in no specific order.
DRUM ROLLS:
Eyad Kahlid | Nuha Faroug | Hashim El-tahir | Sarah Omer | Mohammed Eldirdiri.
External Representation:
We could never let you down, indoors and outdoors, externally your LPO has represented you outstandingly on various occasions, most importantly the SNGA!
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Wrapping this up, It saddens and at the same time delightens us to inform you that our term is coming to an end, it has been amazing having you all throughout this term, we’ve truly enjoyed every bit of it sweet and sour, and we can’t wait to give the space for new heroes to lead another outstanding term where SCOPH stays up and above! At the end we would love to emphasize the fact all that we do with you is for you! So, never hesitate to stay in touch with us. Till next time… Much LoPH & God Bless, MedSIN-KMSA SCOPH LT 2020/2021.
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Shahad Abouda | MedSIN-KMSA LPO Batch 96
Duaa Alshafey | LPO 1st GA Batch 95
Lina Abdeen | LPO 2nd GA Batch 96
Baraa Mamoun| LPO DA Batch 97
Neleyaa NoorEldaim| LPO PA Batch 97
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“It is left to your judgement to choose what to write in the opening paragraph. I wrote a quote last time, any nice piece of text will do.” - Shima when Mohamed asked her what he should write in the opening paragraph. Achievements:
Much has been achieved in the past months, the office has prospered with the completion of the appointment of the local team. Of our proudest achievements in the past months: • The enrollment of three local activities: Career Pathway Manual SWG, SCOME Manual SWG and SCOME Library SWG under the medical education systems program. Many thanks to Mustafa (our Second General Assistant) and Abrar Abdelmohaimin (our Development Assistant) for their combined efforts in helping out with the enrollment process. • Our second members’ meeting was held via Whatsapp. • We have held 9 official SCOME local team meetings.
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• We have opened a call for inputs for the members and discussed the outcomes of the call in a SCOME local team meeting. Needless to say, work was carried out according to our members’ needs and aspirations in the previous months. • We have managed to hold our first ever physical activity of the term, SCOME 101 in July. • We held a collaboration with SCORP and another with the TSD. • We have formulated the SCOME members database, a spreadsheet of all SCOME members, their contact information and the activities each one has participated in for the term. • We have established our members folder. • Our PA, Mohammed, is currently working on designing Medutopia Newsletter. • A call for inputs has been opened for the members to send their inputs on the Students’ Health project proposal. A discussion meeting was held as well and the Students’ Health project has been submitted to MedSIN KMSA’s EB as well KMSA’s external affairs secretary. Activities: • Career Pathway Manual SWG The idea behind the activity? Choosing a medical specialty is no easy task and dependent upon many factors of which the suitability to fit a medical student’s interests, abilities and personality.That’s why we are planning to produce a manual that aims to provide our LMO’s members with the guidance they need to choose a medical specialty with insights of each specialty and inputs from competent doctors who pursued each path.
SWG members: Eithar Abdallah | Baraa Mamoun | Maab Ahmed | Nihal Elmubarak | Shima Abdelfatah (SWG Coordinator).
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Sabrein Elzain | Eisraa Habib Razan Mohamed (Head of SWG)
• Progress made so far? Contact information for doctors was collected, and almost all interviews have been conducted. The materials collected for the manual were paraphrased and edited, all SWG members made comments on each other’s drafts, and each one was asked to resolve comments and make the appropriate suggested changes. The LOME is currently revising and editing the manual. The manual will late be designed by our PA and released by the end of the month (if Allah wills). • SCOME Manual SWG The idea behind the activity? SCOME is one of the very first standing committees ever founded with a wide range of focus areas and contributions. However, on a local level, members joining SCOME may not have a solid clear idea as to what SCOME is all about. An Inclusive document has been assembled. The participants in the SWG conducted several meetings and a capacity building session before constructing the final draft. This draft has been proofread and revised by the LOME and later sent to MedSIN-KMSA and SCOME experts.
SWG members: Yassir Albadawi | Raheeg Emad | Sahar Ahmed | Abrar Abd Elmohaimin | Rua Azhary | Abrar Esmat (SWG Coordinator) | Shima Abdelfatah (SWG Coordinator).
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• SCOME Library SWG The idea behind the activity? This SWG aimed to form a sustained source of materials about basic and advanced SCOME topics that Medical Education and SCOME facilitators and enthusiasts will find gathered in one place, easing the process of acquiring knowledge and facilitating sessions. The SWG has worked compassionately and wholeheartedly from June till September. Session’s objectives were set and the materials was collected from different resources. Each of the SWG coordinators took turns in the process of revising and editing the library to ensure that the Library will meet our members’ expectations. MedSIN KMSA SCOME Library.
SWG members: Nihal Elmubark | Sahar Ahmed | Aliaa Mohammed | Aseel Hatim Maab Ahmed | Mohammed Yousif | Rua azhary | Raheeg Emad Shaima ShamsAldeen | Shima Abdelfatah (member and coordinator) Abrar AbdulMohaimin (member and coordinator) | Mustafa Mahmoud (member and coordinator).
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• SCOME 101 SCOME 101 is an activity which aims to introduce new KMSA SCOME members to IFMSA, MedSIN-Sudan and SCOME in depth, and capacitate old and new members on three of the basic medical education topics which are; Accreditation & Quality Assurance, Social Accountability, and Advocacy in Medical Education. This activity also served as a graduation for the SCOME facilitator’s camp. This three day activity took place in the period between 04/07/2021-06/07/2021 and it was held physically on campus. Special thanks to our Registration Coordinators (Shifo and Tintin) for their amazing work.
Rua Azhary, | SCOME 101 Registration OC- 97. |
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Mohamed Elsharif, SCOME 101 Registration OC- 96.
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• Bamboo Workshop (7th- 9th of September 2021)
Bamboo Workshop is a collaborative workshop between KMSA SCORP and SCOME. It was a three-day, six-hour physical activity focusing on Human Rights in Medical Practice and Medical Ethics Principles. A wide range of medical ethics topics have been discussed including but not limited to patient confidentiality, informed consent, disclosing medical errors, and beginning and end-of-life issues.
• Project Summit Workshop (2nd - 7th of January 2022)
Project Summit is a workshop containing a series of sessions that provide the participantswith the knowledge and skills needed to design or translate their ideas into reality (From Idea to Impact). This local workshop was 6 days long, a session per day, held online via Google Meet. It targeted the general assembly and specifically the members who aspire to be part of the local projects teams. The sessions are (Written Communication, Teamwork, Public Relations and Communication, Financial Management and Fundraising,
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• Project Management (101) and Project Management(102)).
SCOME Local Team Capacity Building (May 2021 – December 2021) Capacity building is fundamentally about improving effectiveness, at the micro and macro organizational levels. Through capacity building, the SCOME Local Team was able to improve their performance and enhance their ability to function and continue to stay relevant within a relatively rapidly changing field of medical education. The SCOME local team worked on designing sessions on the different medical education topics and soft skills. The topics are determined based on the needs assessment form which was filled out by the assistants. The sessions were facilitated by the SCOME local team members.
Last but most certainly not least, nothing we did, do, or will do would be possible without the love and dedication from our fellow SCOMEdians. To them, we extend our deepest love and admiration. - SCOME Local Team.
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Shima Abdalfatah | MedSIN-KMSA LOME Batch 95
Abrar Ismat | LOME 1st GA Batch 96
Mustafa Mahmoud | LOME 2nd GA Batch 95
Abrar AbdulMohaimin | LOME DA
Mohammed Seifuldin | LOME PA Batch 97
Batch 96
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Hello our dearest KMSA members and SRHR enthusiasts in your favorite part ^_^. Just want to tell you that here in KMSA SCORA we focus on our members and community at the same time, capacitate and train fully committed and responsible members to serve the community, as well as teach the community and make them ready to receive the services of our members and collaborators by removing stigma and taboo from SRHR issues that we’re advocate for. Everything that we’ve done is documented here for you, as well as our upcoming activities. Enjoy Reading^_^.
Achievements: 1. Local Projects IOGs • Finalization of the Local Projects Internal Operational Guidelines which was started at the beginning of the term by Me, President, SecretaryGeneral, Sec-Gen Monitoring and Evaluation Assistant, LOME & LPO. 2. Full house (Yeeeeeeeeeyyyyyyy) • Thankfully, 5 highly qualified and committed team members, Yusr Malik – LORA Developmental Assistant , and Reem Sowar Aldahab – LORA Publication Assistant have been in our Red Family. 3. KMSA SCORA IOGs • Finalized KMSA SCORA Internal Operational guidelines for the term 2020/2021. And the members’ IOGs were adopted by SCORA members in the first members’ meeting. The IOGs is ready to be adopted in one of the upcoming TOMs by the whole Team of Officials and the EB. 4. Sexual Assault Awareness Members’ articles • Submitting pieces for KMSA Magazine allows our members to showcase their creativity, thoughts, and experience while simultaneously providing beneficial information to the community.
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The subject of the article was Rape and Sexual Assault. The movement to end sexual violence around the world relies on people who have made a choice to do something, to make a change. Sexual violence often seems inevitable, but the choice to do something and get involved has made incredible changes in national and global conversations about it. In recent decades, these changing conversations have expanded support for survivors and led to substantial innovation in the work of preventing sexual violence. There are many ways you can become involved in the work of changing conversations about sexual violence, supporting survivors, and preventing sexual violence before it ever happens - but in order to do so one has to be aware of what sexual violence is and what does sexual assault awareness stands for. The article was submitted by Leena Yousif – LORA General Assistant 2020/2021. 5. Comprehensive Sexuality Education Articles Submitting pieces for KMSA Magazine allows our members to showcase their creativity, thoughts, and experience while simultaneously providing beneficial information to the community. The subject of the August article was Comprehensive Sexuality Education. CSE enables young people to protect their health, well-being and dignity. And because this program is based on human rights principles, they advance gender equality, rights and empowerment of young people. The article was submitted by Yusr Malik - SCORA Developmental Assistant 2020/2021 6. Welcoming our Newcomers Batch 98 has recently started their first semester as freshmen, an activity introducing them to MedSIN-KMSA and it’s standing committees. SCORA session introduce SCORA history, focus areas, workshops and trainings, our main partners and external opportunities
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7. External Partners Database: A database documenting all SCORA collaborations, partnerships and sponsors, and they have been selected based on their identity and interest collaborating with us. This database will be done and ready to share with you by the beginning of the next term and we will not be tired searching for partners to help us. 8. As we promised you in the 1st issue, it was finally time to write KMSA MSA SCORA 1st Local Projects Proposal maximizing our standing committee impacts and efforts on Gender-Based Violence on the local and even the national level. STAY TUNED FOR IT ^_^
Activities:
1. Red Round Table 3 • Red Round Table is the name of our KMSA SCORA Discussion Club, SCORA club is a platform for all SCORAngels from different levels at Khartoum university to share their knowledge, opinions , skills and to further discuss different SRHR topics; the discussion is very important in SCORA because members come from different backgrounds, different cultures and have different opinions regarding sexual and reproductive health and rights topics, we emphasis on the importance of providing a safe space that’s free from stigma and discrimination for our member ,somewhere they can reflect on their personal experiences and opinions in a culturally respected fashion , hence we came up with the Idea of discussion clubs . • The club was about child maltreatment: child abuse, child trafficking, child labor and child marriage discussing the mental and social effects of child maltreatment, how to stop child maltreatment as health care providers and policy makers.
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• The discussion was in collaboration with KMSA SCORP where both Local Teams were responsible to keep the flow of the discussion going while also shedding light on the topic. • It was divided into two sessions; the first one was about child abuse and child marriage and the second was about child trafficking and child labor. • The discussion facilitators were
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2. Medical student’s forum on sexual and reproductive health and rights • Since 2016 SCORA committee through the MedSIN-Sudan worked in collaboration of the WHO in advocating against FGM and its medicalization. MedSIN and accomplished the Anti FGM campaigns including safe motherhood campaign and delivered trainings in alignment with national movement to abandon the FGM. In continuity to this movement, medical students also participated in the advocacy work by health professional against the de-medicalization in Northern state that resulted in issuing the state law against FGM. MedSIN presented an impressive overview on best practice and lessons learnt during the previous period reflecting high impact on medical students through social mobilization and the increase of knowledge. Medical Students as youth are also motivated to contribute to advocacy work on addressing the gender norm issues as they share the same root causes as family planning and gender-based violence. As they played the main role leading the recent political change in Sudan, their enthusiasm is now the lead stimulus to effectively increase their participation in social responsibility towards their peers and communities. The activity was In House forum, Medical Students Forum on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights. The event took place on 10th, 11th, and 12th of July 2021 respectively in Grand Holiday Villa. The event focused on the root causes and gaps, as well as ways and means to address them and re-energize the commitment of all participants to combat gender inequality and scale up prevention and response to the most common types of GBV in Sudan.
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• Program Agenda Content: • Day One: Orientation on Gender, Types of GBV and Sexual Violence in specific. • Day Two: FGM, Family Planning and Child Marriage. • Day Three: 1. Experience share 2. WHO session, discussion of WHO joint plan 3. Recommendation from the attendees. • Speakers: • Dr. Maisoon Elamin - Women Reproductive Health Officer/WHO • Dr. Areej Abd Elmajed - The Former Regional Assistant for Africa 2019/2020 • Dr. Ahmed Eisawi - WHO representative • Osama Ali Adam - MedSIN-Sudan National Officer on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights 2016/2017 • Abu Bakr Ali Adam - MedSIN-Sudan National Officer on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights 2019/2020 • Aisha Adil - Khartoum Medical Student Association Local Officer on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights 2019/2020 • Moatasim - Kordofan Medical Student Association Local Officer on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights 2018/2019.
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This Camp is designed especially for the newcomers, batch 98, 97 and so, who are passionate about SRHR and want to go in depth of SRHR issues.-SCORA 101 camp is an activity tackling different topics and different focus areas in SCORA such as: GBV, Maternal health and SRHR in gender. Considering these topics as major issues to be discussed and to raise the awareness in these areas in the community specially among the medical students. Sexual and reproductive health and rights “SRHR” are fundamental human rights that are currently being denied or restricted in many part in the world. SRHR includes issues like lrimination, and stigma, and more. Achieving SRHR for all supports equality, contributes to women, girls, and others who are discriminated against living the lives they want, and helps build communities that are healthy, safe, just, and thriving. It’s a crucial part of people’s life whether they are sexually active or not. This enables them to make more informed discussion regarding their own sexual and reproductive health and rights. • Sessions provided: ▫ SCORA 101 session. ▫ SRHR in depth. ▫ Gender-based violence. ▫ Maternal health. ▫ Female genital mutilation. ▫ Advocacy for SRHR training session. • Facilitators/Speakers: ▫ SCORA 101: Maram Karam – KMSA LORA. ▫ SRHR: Eahaa Mohammed and Esraa Habib. ▫ GBV: Leena Yousif - Reem Sowar al Dahab. ▫ FGM: Sara Abdullatif - Yusra Malik. ▫ Maternal health: Sara Eahab - Leena Yousif. ▫ Advocacy in SRHR: Abu Bakr Ali (MedSIN-Sudan NORA 19/20) – Shaza Altayeb (GBV trainer).
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4.Breast Cancer SWG
• During the last term, an international small working group was created to design a whole campaign about breast cancer. Over a month, this SWG has managed to create a successful educational and awareness program for the Breast Cancer Awareness Month, gathered resources, and provided us with training aids, awareness and educational materials. All these outcomes were gathered in an online content, sessions and workshop that was provided on the international level. Although the outcomes of the SWG were great, they were not applied to our community and our members; firstly, because there was no participation from our members and that we need to refine the content as it fits our situation as a developing country and standardize its content. • It’s our role as medical students and SCORA members to spread awareness about the breast cancer in the month of October in our community, so this small working group supposed to be responsible for designing a successful and complete campaign about breast cancer throughout whole October, but unfortunately they had to stop their work due to the country situation and will continue their work the next term. • The SWG members had been selected through a call based on their availability and motivation to work. • The SWG gathered resources based on specific outlines and objectives set by the SWG coordinators to ensure the quality of the campaign.
5. 16 Days of Activism Online Campaign:
16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence is an annual international campaign that kicks off on 25 November, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, and runs until 10 December, the Human Rights Day. Many infographics and posts were shared to help raise awareness, Many KMSA Members joined the movement and showed their support! And the report of this our campaign was shared in WHO-Sudan Regional Report. The Campaign Coordinators: • Maram Karam - KMSA LORA 20/21. • Reem Sowar Aldahab - KMSA LORA PA 20/21.
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General Achievements:
1. Start activities enrollment process We have started the enrollment process by filling the Enrollment Candidature Forms for: Women Health and Rights Symposium, Red Round Table 3 and Medical Students Forum on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights. 2. External Representation: • The 1st National Meeting : The LORA represented KMSA SCORA in the first national meeting, which was conducted in our university on 17th August 2021. • Meetings with WHO: Represent KMSA SCORA on several meetings to discuss the joint plan and activities that are going to be in collaboration. • September National General Assembly Your LORA had represented you perfectly in the SNGA and and other occasions 4. External Participation: KMSA SCORA 16 Days of Activism Online Campaign and its report was shared with World Health Organization - Sudan Annual Riognal Report.
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Other Tasks:
1. More TOMs 2. Arranging Monthly LT Meetings as well as Urgent Meetings. 3. Submitting Reports. Wait!!! We have a surprise for you! We will conclude this term by collaboration with the WHO and the Ministry of Health providing Social Norms Change Training, will see the lights soon. This training is for the most 20 motivated members and aims to give the tools and skills to understand, measure and change collective practices using social norms perspective to guide the selection of an appropriate mix of strategies and activities most conducive to self-sustained social change. The participants will be trained on how to diagnose social norms, and how to distinguish them from other social constructs, like customs or conventions. These distinctions are crucial for effective policy interventions aimed to create new, beneficial norms or eliminate harmful ones. Also will be trained how to measure social norms and the expectations that support them, and how to decide whether they cause specific behaviors.
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National Updates: 1. MedSIN-Sudan Acting NORA has been appointed 2. MedSIN-Sudan SCORA National Team have been appointed 3. MedSIN-Sudan SCORA Regulation was established by the SCORA National Team.
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Guess what!!! We have something for you^-^ KMSA’s LORAs are heeeeeeeeerrrreeee!!
RED HUGSSS and God Bless Maram Karam - KMSA LORA 20/21
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Comprehensive Sexuality Education Members’ articles Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE) First of all, what is Comprehensive Sexuality Education? CSE is regarded as an important means of informing young people about their rights and sexual health, improving public health outcomes and contributing to sustainable development. In some countries it is usually taught to teenagers in schools as a part of their curriculum which in my opinion is a very important means of advocacy. How is CSE important? Studies have demonstrated that comprehensive sexuality education programs reduce the rates of sexual activity, sexual risk behaviors (eg, number of partners and unprotected intercourse), sexually transmitted infections, and adolescent pregnancy. Although sexuality education remains controversial, there is growing evidence that good quality CSE has positive effects on sexual knowledge, attitudes, communication skills and certain sexual behavior. For example it helps prevent teen pregnancy by teaching teenagers about the various contraceptive methods, and teaches them about sexuality in general and how to know more about their own bodies and how to be more comfortable speaking about these topics. Advocating for CSE in Sudan In Sudan, since talking about sexuality and sex education is highly stigmatized and treated as a hush topic, CSE isn’t taught in schools, so we as medical students and SCORAngels take it upon ourselves to advocate about this issue.
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What are some of the topics included in CSE? 1. Scientifically accurate information about human development 2. Human anatomy 3. Reproductive health 4. Contraception 5. Childbirth 6. Sexually transmitted infections (STIs), including HIV What are some ways we can help advocate for and educate people about CSE? 1. Workshops 2. Sessions 3. Trainings 4. Community outreach 5. Non-official ways like generally chatting with your family, friends and acquaintances Finally, I came across those 2 quotes that i think are really interesting: ● “Our schools teach only the most basic principles of human reproduction: naming and identifying the sexual organs and a simple explanation of how the sperm fertilizes the ovum. If mathematics was taught in the same cursory manner as human sexuality, when children learned to count they would be considered masters of the subject.” ● “Most children just take Sex Education class as a big joke, with girls looking embarrassed and boys jeering at sexual innuendos. I mean can we grow up and talk about sex like it is a normal thing and crush all that taboo attached to it?” Written by: Yusr Malk - Batch 95.
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Maram Abd El-Kareem | MedSIN-KMSA LORA Batch 96
Leena Yousif | LORA GA Batch 95
LDina Abdalrahim | LORA FA Batch 95
Yusr Malik | LORA DA Batch 95
Reem Fadul | LORA PA Batch 95
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Activities: • Green Light: SCORP Intro week local capacity building activity by KMSA SCORP LT and the Facilitation Camp Graduates 2019/2020. It took place over the course of four consecutive days (21/5-24/5) and consisted of four basic online SCORP sessions- an introductory session and three SCORP focus area sessions. These sessions were aimed towards new members since they were beginners’ based. • Red Round Table3:Child maltreatment discussions (Collaboration with KMSA SCORA) The discussions are very important to our members because members come from different backgrounds, different cultures and have different opinions regarding different SCORA and SCORP topics. We emphasis on the importance of providing a safe space that is free of stigma and discrimination for our members, hence we came up with the Idea of these discussion clubs. This term’s club was about child maltreatment: child abuse, child trafficking, child labour and child marriage. It tackled the mental and social effects of child maltreatment, and how to stop child maltreatment as health care providers and policy makers.The discussions took place on the 21st and 22nd of June on Google Meet. • World Refugee Day online campaign: It was a local online activity centering on refugees rights, their history and current status, both globally and locally. It took place in the form of online posts, recordings and infographics posted on KMSA SCORP social media accounts and WhatsApp group in addition to a Wrap Up session presented by SCORP Director for this term, Ana Paula.
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• Bamboo Workshop
Bamboo Workshop is a collaborative workshop between KMSA SCORP and SCOME. It was a three-day, six-hour physical activity focusing on Human Rights in Medical Practice and Medical Ethics Principles. A wide range of medical ethics topics will be discussed such as patient confidentiality, informed consent, disclosing medical errors, beginning and end-of-life issues and more Sessions provided: 1. Ethics and Human Rights in Health. 2. Important Clinical Situations. 3. Recognizing and Documenting Abuse. 4. Patient-Doctor Communication and Relationship. 5. Cultural Differences in dealing with patients. Trainers: 1. Ahmed safwan/ medical education trainer. 2. Shaza alTayeb/ GBV trainer. 3. Enas Osama/ ITHRE tainer.
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• Peek into SCORP A Peek Into SCORP is a local online activity tailored towards batch 98 as they did not have a proper introduction to the Standing Committee. It consist of one online session (through Google Meet) giving a brief description of the SC’s history, focus areas, global priorities , core concepts and more
General Achievements:
• Start activities enrollment process: we have started with the enrollment process of our activities (child maltreatment ,WRD and Bamboo workshop) by filling the CFs • Members meetings: As we stated in our IOGs, we must regularly conduct meetings with our members, to keep them up to date on the happenings of the standing committee whether on an international, national or local level and to take the inputs of their members into 1. First members meeting on 22nd April. 2. Second members meeting on 16th July. 3. Third members meeting on 7th October .
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• Members Tracking sheet: A members tracking sheet was created by our DA which include all members’ necessary information and also members’ attendance for all activities during the term to ensure proper tracking and assessment for the term • SCORP IOGs: The team prepared and agreed on the IOGs, presented and discussed them with the members during the first official members’ meeting (on the 16th of July) before adopting them. And were finally adopted on TOM (12). • Call for inputs. • Other regular tasks: 1. Monthly Reports 2. TOMs 3. Local team meetings
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Members’ articles Racism has existed in human society since the dawn of time. When someone discusses racism, what often comes to mind is slander or stereotyping a certain group of people so the concept of environmental racism is overlooked. Environmental racism is a type of institutional racism, which means it is a “system of structures that have procedures or processes that disadvantage people-ofcolour” This form of racism encompasses any environmental policy, practice or directive that disproportionately disadvantages people-of-colour by burdening them with health hazards. This could be done by anything from dumping industrial waste in proximity to neighbourhoods that house non-white people or polluting the water source of non-white families. Many of these problems face low-income communities as a whole but race plays an important factor as people-of-colour complaints are either disregarded or they lack the resources to raise awareness or fight a costly legal battle to demand their rights. So what is being done? The environmental justice movement is working hard to raise awareness of the struggles of vulnerable groups through academics, media pressure and campaigns. Some nations also spoke up about the environmental plights of non-white people. For instance, the European Union, where most cases of environmental racism affect Romani people, has funded initiatives like the Environmental Justice Foundation that brought scientists and policy makers from 20 countries to advance the case of environmental justice. In the end, as medical students and human beings, it is our responsibility to familiarize ourselves with the concept of environmental racism if we want to provide safe and prosperous surroundings to all humans, including people-ofcolour.
ENVIRONMENTAL RACISM: A CORRUPTED SYSTEM by Sarah Omer, Batch 96.
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“On our long journey, my friend, there was one thing always saw it, something that I thought about long and often; it was an injustice. The world is full of injustice”. - Che Guevara We follow the news daily; Wars, murder, displacement and crimes as in Guevara’s saying..... The world is full of injustice. Are we always going to be watchers? Surrender to our helplessness and wait for the world to change overnight? Without effort and effort, without any cost? The concept of human rights crystallized as a result of the devastation that befell the world during the Second World War, although the concept was originally found much earlier, but the devastation caused by the war ... sounded the alarm that finally the ears were heard. Human rights are rights that are inherent to every person simply because he or she is a human being, and they are inherent to them regardless of who they are, where they are, language, religion, ethnic origin or any other status. However, the essence of human rights is in their comprehensiveness; However, it is violated in many countries of the world.... Racial discrimination “ethnic origin”, violations of women’s rights “their gender”, violations of the rights of the Rohingya in Burma, “their religion”... and other violations. Some may ask, so what is the use of human rights if they are not followed? The response may seem a bit dreamy, but! If we go back in time we see many changes that our ancestors did not even dream of happening! We must not lose hope, we must rise from the comfortable viewing chair of Change Square, we are responsible for the future of future generations, responsible for their rights that will be taken away, responsible for every simple concession we made that led to the dropping of one of their rights and ours before they were theirs! Start changing, don’t wait for a superhero to change the world, be the hero of your little community, speak up! The word has a mighty power not to be underestimated! Show stories, share your knowledge, put faith in the heart of everyone you can that deserves it! It is not a kindness from anyone, it is simply his right to be a human being...
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If Hell Existed on Earth.. “I thought my country was the best, as I grew knowing nothing about the outside world besides China, South Korea, and the United States of America, as our enemies. At seven years old, I saw my first public execution. In 1995, my family received a letter from a friend saying: by the time you receive this letter, we will be gone, as we have not eaten for three weeks, waiting desperately for our death. My family and I never faced hunger, unlike other people who barely survived the famine by eating grass, bugs, and tree bark”. said Hyeonseon Lee. “During those difficult times I was sent to China to live with relatives, but somehow I ended up living alone. It was terrifying to live there alone, where refugees were considered illegal migrants”. She sadly continued “I ended up in South Korea, decided to get to university, while working, in order to help my family back there. Unfortunately, North Korea authorities intercepted some of the money I was sending to my family, and they forced my family to move to an isolated place in the countryside. Quickly I had to think of a way to help them escape. After many bribes and fines, we managed to reunite together after fourteen years”. One story was told, one family managed to survive, imagining the amount of untold stories, separated families since the division of North and South Korea. You might be asking yourself why I bother to choose such a country in the other half of the world? Well, the same question posed to my head, after knowing what North Korean citizens face and have to go through, from human crosses, human right violation in its simplest form, not having the right to choose you religion, actually no religion is allowed, no one follows a belief, they all live for Jongun Kim. Not to mention the reasons for horrible executions without a proper trial. On the other hand, you might conclude that North Korea citizens choose to live such a life, after all it is their country’s choice. Speaking of which is not actually a choice because there are sequences for escaping or having the courage to change a thing if you can’t pick a haircut out of the twenty eight choices you have.
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Individuals at their homes in constant supervision, on what conversation they hold, what has been watched on television as they have three channels to watch, with a remarkable wage if you ever been caught watching foreigners shows and series. The peremptory action of the Korean government led to the death of Otto Warmbier an American student, after planning a prank, trying to mess up with the guards and putting down a wall sign in 2016, he was sentenced for fifteen years of hard labour. In 2017, he was brought home, in a coma and posed away two days later. Post-mortem revealed remarkable brain damage. Unfortunately, I can not continue in this horrific incident. The appreciation we need to feel for small details in our-lives, after those tiny violations to what we know as Humans Rights. Pages will not be enough to describe how terrible the dictatorship is, and what we can do as a world is nothing but pray hard for North Koreans, for those who believe in freedom, the right to choose what to watch or dress, and to speak out loud with zero worries about unimaginable executions.
by Firdous W. Osman, Batch 96.
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[Best KMSA SCORP for the term 2020/21] As you all know, you are the foundation of our organization so we are so proud to announce the best KMSA SCORP members of the term 2020/21 , who gave life to our activities. We are thrilled to have you as part of our Standing Committee for this term
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Lujain Almutaz
Maad Montaser
Leena Abdelnasser
Fardous Wail
Fatima Moammer
Magrebia Abdelrahman
Malaz Abdelgalil
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Roaa Omer | MedSIN-KMSA LORP Batch 97
Awab Esam |LORP 1st GA Batch 95
Mohamed Kamal | LORP 2nd GA Batch 97
Sarah Omer | LORP DA Batch 96
Reem Omer | EX- LORP PA Batch 96
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Create, explore, expand, conquer.
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hoot hoot SCOREowls who? are we? SCOREpublics who? are we? SCOREmarkable who? are we? SCOREfreshing research research 🧬 issssss... FUNNN :D
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Alright now, let’s go!
SCORE LOVE: BROKE THE SCALE! - but?
Our SCORE family has been growing little by little (throwback to when it was only me *yikes*) up until May when 2 astonishing individuals joined our family, completing it. (YAYYY so blissful <33333) Ladies and gentlemen, without further ado, let me introduce you to: 1. Amr Kamaleldeen: LORE Developmental Assistant and 2. Mohamed Mahmoud: LORE Publication Assistant By this, the SCORE team had been completed and it was time to BRING THE ACTION! (wonderful family, so much love, full enthusiasm, outstanding work... happily ever after)
Ever after? Did someone say, ever after? jokes on you Sadly, our PA resigned in July and our 2nd GA has moved abroad recently, diminishing our family to 4. SCORE family thanks them for their work and wishes them the best of luck in their academic and professional life, may the odds be ever in their favor <3
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• Project Hunt
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Research Projects are the core of the IFMSA Research Exchange program. They are designed to deepen the medical student’s knowledge in the various medical fields while introducing them to different approaches to clinical investigation, medical education and ethical research standards. esearch project with the name “Use of molecular markers in forecasting the intensity of transmission and the effect of drug pressure of Plasmodium falciparum towards better control of malaria in Eastern Sudan”, has been successfully added to our projects. This project was a great addition to KMSA SCORE, not only because of its quality, but also because of the astounding relationship established with the Tropical Medicine Research Institute - National Center for Research. (huge thanks for all the support and help provided!) Another project form with the name “Placental malaria in blue nile, Sudan” has been submitted and is waiting for approval (keeping our fingers crossed) Our hunt for projects is still on as our Academic Assistant, Jalal Elturabi is approaching research institutes seeking for a collaboration.
• Let’s talk IOGs!
Each committee’s local set IOGs are of great significance, but iss it the only thing that matters for SCORE? Throughout the month of June, we have worked in collaboration with SCOPE LT in a SWG to produce IOGs for coordinating the Pre-Exchange and Upon Arrival Training (PET and UAT respectively). The PET plays an important role in filling the gap that happens due to lack of knowledge and awareness. By conducting it we ensure to send not only motivated, but also highly qualified students. On the other hand, the UAT provides students with a solid introduction to their host country’s way of approaching medicine, research and healthcare in order to be able to integrate themselves smoothly into this new system.
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Thereby, setting guidelines for their coordination was of utmost importance as they are one of the most important steps in the academic quality of our exchanges. The PET/UAT IOGs SWG was coordinated by Nabta Seifelyazal (SCORE 1st GA) and all of Rayan Mohamed (SCOPE 1st GA), Ethar Khalid (SCOPE DA) and Amr Kamal (SCORE DA) were members of it.
• EPP: Exchange Preparatory Package
The Exchange Preparatory Package, AKA EPP, was an exchange focused capacity building activity that aimed to help bridge the gap in experience and sufficient skills that our members are lacking due to the significant decline of exchanges during the last few terms. It was a local event targeting KMSA members and focusing on academic quality, educational activities and contact persons. EPP was a 5-day hybrid activity conducted during the period between the 20th and 29th of June and was divided into two sections: A. The first section; preliminary sessions, that took place online on Google Meet highlighting the knowledge related to AQ, its steps and importance, the educational activities related to the exchange program, its importance and benefits to the exchange students. • Academic Quality session facilitated by Rayan Mohammed (SCOPE 1st GA) and Nabta Seifalyazal (SCORE 1st GA) . • Educational Activities (SCOPE) facilitated by Eyad Khalid (SCOPE AA). • Educational Activities (SCORE) facilitated by Jalal Elturabi (SCORE AA). B. The last three days were in the form of a workshop about Contact Persons. This workshop took place in a physical setting in the University of Khartoum, Faculty of Medicine. The sessions presented in the workshop were:
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• Day one: - Introduction to Contact Persons/Exchange OCs in which attendees were highlighted about CPs/ OCs task descriptions in addition to the history of exchanges in KMSA. It was facilitated by Zainab Bakri [KMSA LORE] & Amjad Mohamed [KMSA LEO]. - The second session was Sudan 101 highlighting the basic information about the country, epidemiology of the country and the country’s health care systems, presented by Amr Kamal [LORE DA] and Ethar Khalid [LEO DA]. • Day two: - Intercultural Learning session presented by Khalid Tarig [Ex-LORE] and Nabta Seifelyazal [LORE 1st GA]. - Ethics in Exchanges facilitated by Awab Hisham [Ex-LEO] and Rayan Mohamed [LEO 1st GA]. • Day three: - External representation session conducted by Khalid Tarig and Zainab Bakri.
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• Hi, July
July was an exciting month filled with work, challenges and achievements. Coming out on top, we had the chance to host our first incoming student this term, Andrea Higuera (and the first exchangee KMSA has hosted postcovid!!) • July Upon Arrival Training Conducted on the 3rd of July, the Upon Arrival Training (UAT) presented by 2 outstanding facilitators- Mohamed Khalid Aljack (Ex NEO-IN) and Mohamed Azhari (NEO-OUT) - discussed various topics with the incomings, including but not limited to, Sudan’s healthcare system, its epidemiology, research and clerkship, and all the various unique laws and cultural highlights in Sudan. The incomings were nothing short of fascinated by the numerous differences encountered throughout the training.
• July Exchange program
As is known, MedSIN-KMSA has been sending and receiving exchange students for years as part of its association within MedSIN-Sudan, SCORE and IFMSA. Hosting incoming students is part of a bilateral relationship between Sudan and the other countries of the world with their different universities and medical students’ associations. We facilitate each exchange program for incoming exchange students in collaboration with SCOPE team (usually) through focusing on 4 aspects where we provide a scientific program, a social program, accommodation and transportation. KMSA has hosted 1 SCORE incoming and 2 SCOPE incomings in July from Spain, Finland and Brazil respectively. The academic program of the SCORE incoming was in the form of a research project focusing on Malaria diagnosis along with other educational activities all organized by the Tropical Medicine Department - National Center for Research, along with working days at the Institute of Endemic Diseases. This amazing program was organized by a wonderful team of 15 dedicated individuals (including me hahah). Check the SCOPE section for the JEP committee <333
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“Sudan welcomes you wholeheartedly and with open arms” “Sudan arms” - An excerpt from our Invitation Booklet (AKA SCORE Survival Kit) This Invitation Booklet was issued in July by amazing SCORE members under the supervision of SCORE LT so as to be sent regularly by the LORE / responsible Contact Person to KMSA SCORE’s incomings before their arrival in order to give them an overview about what they should expect their experience in Sudan to be like, tips and some guidelines. - The SWG members were: ■ Nabta Seifelyazal (Batch 96) - SWG Coordinator (SCORE 1st GA). ■ Ebtihal Nagi (Batch 97) - General Member. ■ Ahmed Mohamed (Batch 98) - General Member. ■ Mohamed Almustafa (Batch 95) - Publication Member. You can find the published booklet: HERE (Enjoy it!)
More Exchanges?
August Exchange Program: Program Our 2nd exchange program this term! We hosted a total of 5 incomings, 3 SCORE and 2 SCOPE from all of Germany, Romania, Czech Republic, Austria and Slovenia. The SCORE scientific program was similar to that of July but with more educational activities. Organizing committee members can be found on the SCOPE section, big blue hugs <3 More and more exchanges with the September Exchange Program! All I could say about the months July to September is that it was a thrilling period, that taught us a lot, left us with new opportunities and contacts, and offered us exposure to share our work. But most importantly, thanks to these programs we got to meet many people who shared our vision and inspired us to continue stronger than ever. Thank you for your support!
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• OGs in the house The Pre-Exchange Training (PDT/PET) is a training to prepare the outgoing students for their exchange program. It contains and provides the students with all the information about the process starting from basic information about the exchange process itself (how to fill the Logbook, how to get a certificate, who to contact, deadlines, etc), some travel tips, intercultural awareness, until basics about research/clinical work. In addition, it is a way to increase the Academic Quality of our exchanges by ensuring a better preparation of the outgoings. This training has been conducted as a 3-day session in collaboration with SCOPE. (check the SCOPE section for further details about the sessions).
• Ruby Newbie
SCORE Start-Up; an activity introducing new members (specifically those of batch 98) to IFMSA, SCORE and Research Exchanges as a whole. The main goals of this activity were focused on member recruitment, strengthening SCORE basics and increasing the involvement of newbies in future exchange-related activities. 1. IFMSA and SCORE by Khalid Tarig. 2. SCORE in Depth by Amr Kamal.
Huge shoutout to Amr Kamaleldin and Mohamed Ikrima for their outstanding work in coordinating this activity <3
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4 lucky students from batch 94 had the chance to go on a research exchange program, let’s hear about their experience! Omar Aljaili - Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Romania Hello everyone this is Omar a fourth year medical student. Last December I was one of the few lucky students who were able to conduct their exchange program I had my SCORE contract to Romania which I really didn’t know much about in terms of many things so I was a little bit hesitant but eventually it turned out to be one of the most memorable trips of my life. I had a chance to experience things that I never thought it would be handy in this level like conducting DNA isolation, working with flow cytometry and observe a bone marrow transplantation, also beside the scientific part i was fortunate enough to meet with a lot of wonderful people whom will always be in my memory and really get the chance to integrate into the Romanian culture and visit places that I would be able to see if I traveled there by my own.
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Taqwa Hafiz - University of Ferrara, Italy My exchange experience in Italy was marvelous and wonderful, getting to discover Italy ,the culture and food "mama mia" besides meeting people from different parts of the world, my exchange colleague and joining one of the best universities, participating in an amazing research project, I learnt a lot.
Eiman Bushra - University of Ferrara, Italy I was given the opportunity to travel to Italy and participate in a research project they had going on there, in the field of Neuroscience. I’ve always been interested in this field, so I was beyond excited for this experience. Throughout my stay there, I was exposed to not only eye-opening and interesting research methods, but also to their different cultures and traditions. Seeing a different approach to the one i was accustomed to made me even more curious. Thankfully i was introduced to doctors as well as other students that were more than eager to help and teach me. This was truly an amazing experience, and I was lucky enough to learn a lot, as well as make friends and memories that I hope to keep forever.
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Because every news matters.. ■ Representing KMSA SCORE in a meeting with the MedSIN-Sudan Reform Committee with our LMO to discuss various matters including the identity and structure of the organization, relations and communications, monitoring and evaluation, along with other topics, was our 1st GA, Nabta Seifelyazal. ■ 3 outgoing students are expected to depart in March. ■ LORE and AA are now also NORE 1st GA and NORE DA. ■ 1st GA is now also MedSIN-Sudan SecGen M&E Assistant. ■ Discussions and work on the contracts distribution process for the exchange seasons 22/23 has been initiated.
Food for your mind
Open Science for Climate Action - Credits to the United Nations Dag Hammarskjöld Library.
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Zainab Bakri | MedSIN-KMSA LORE Batch 95
Nabta Seifelyazal | LORE 1st GA Batch 96
Mohammed Ikrima | LORE 2nd GA Batch 96
Amr Kamaleldin | LORE DA Batch 97
Galal Eldeen | LORE AA Batch 95
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Break limits, widen horizons.
Achievements:
• The Exchange Preparatory Package (EPP): A CB activity in collaboration with KMSA SCORE. Its main aim is to give members the skill and knowledge required to work as Exchange Program OCs and Contact Persons. On the 10th of June a call was opened and 22 participants attended the whole activity. which took place from the 20th to 29th of June. Prior to the workshop a preliminary sessions were held online including [academic quality and educational activities] followed by CP workshop included these sessions:, introduction to a CP, Sudan 101, Intercultural learning, Ethics in exchange and external representation training sessions.
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• July Exchange Program:
Due to the pandemic and Sudanese revolution, exchange programs in KMSA haven’t seen the light in 2 years. Now, and as a continuation of KMSA’s legacy of welcoming and sending students. SCOPE and SCORE supervised and organized the July Exchange Program. We had two incomings from Finland (Vanessa Ekman) and Brazil (Barbara Hoffman). By 31st of June accommodation was fully prepared, in the meanwhile transportation was provided by the faculty in the first days. The Scientific Program was prepared by the Head of Internal Medicine, a group of doctors serving in Soba University Hospital, and KMSA SCOPE LT. There also was a social program was held by the social program committee and included (welcoming party, NFDP (National Foods and Drinks Party), trips to UofK central campus, Sofia, Omdurman Market, Sudan national museum, Marshall Reserve, sabloga, and bajrawiah).By the end of the scientific program, incomings filled their evaluation forms and were handed their certificates. July Exchange Program Committee:
Special thanks for the amazing organizing committee!
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Bajrawia
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Uof K , Central Campus
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Marshal Animal Reserve
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• July Upon Arrival Training (UAT):
You can imagine being new to a country with a different culture and environment, with tons of questions you need an answer for. This training mainly aims for answering those questions . As it was a critical necessity, information about the country, it’s epidemiology, social norms and scientific/social programs details were shared with our beloved incoming students. Due to the difference in arrival dates of incomings, two training sessions were held. The first one was on the 3rd of July which was facilitated by Mohammed Khalid Eljack (Ex NEO-IN) and The second one took place on the 6th of July which was facilitated by Mohammed Azhari (currently serving as NEO-OUT). The presented topics were: background about the country, healthcare and medical educational systems, safety, basic epidemiology of the country, clerkship and research in Sudan.
• August Exchange Program:
The second exchange program in our term! This time we had two incomings from Slovenia (Janja Kobal) and Austria (Kristina Steininger). Scientific program was prepared on the 28th of July in soba hospital, department of Obs/Gyne was the department of choice for our incoming students in August. August Exchange Program Committee:
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Special thanks for the amazing organizing committee!
Scientific Program
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● PDT/PET IOGs SWG:
PDT stands for: Pre-departure training, and PET stands for: Pre-exchange training. Both of which are trainings conducted for outgoing students to give them necessary information to excel their exchange programs. The SWG established concrete guidelines to ensure quality of those training throughout June. Check SCORE’s section for more details!
● Blue Birds Campaign:
An online CB activity targeting our amazing, enthusiastic newcomers! The sessions of the event were SCOPE 101 on the 20th of September, facilitated by Rayan Mohammed 1st GA. The second session was SCOPE 102 on the 22nd of September Mohammed Azhari, the current NEO-OUT.
● Pre-Departure Training
In order for our outgoing students to get the best out of their exchange programs, a lot of things must be known and considered by them. This is the utmost goal for the Pre-Departure Training conducted on 23rd, 25th, and 27th of September in collaboration with KMSA SCORE. Our outgoing students were capacitated with the following topics: 1. 23rd of September | Exchange Regulations | by Mohammed Eljack. 2. 25th of September | Ethics and Intercultural Learning | by Nabta Seif and Ethar Khalid. 3. 27th of September | External Representation |by Khalid Tarig and Amr Kamal.
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• Outgoings Manual SWG:
In order to further ease the application process for our outgoing students, a manual containing inclusive instructions is under work. It will contain all aspects of the process including guidelines, how to prepare documents/where it can be issued, and more. The SWG is coordinated by Rayan Mohammed, LEO 1st GA, and the Vice-Coordinator is Mohammed Almustafa, LEO PA in addition to 4 of our most active, enthusiastic, and hard-working members: Mouyed Abdalftah, (batch 97) Mohammed Al Mubarak (batch 97), Ahmed Abdelraf (batch 98), Mohammed Ali (batch 98).
• KMSA SCOPE External Affairs Folder:
Exchange programs utilize a lot of funds for preparation of high quality exchange programs. Mainly, funds are provided by university/college administration in this term and previous terms. Although we have support from our stakeholders, we need to acquire more resources in order to raise the quality and impact of our exchanges furthermore. This folder provides a means of better approach to new stakeholders, bringing materials needed for the matter like presentations, statistics on students mobility, documentation of exchange programs, flyers, and more. It also documents our transactions with stakeholders and who we should contact or not. This marks the first step in our strategy to widen the spectrum of stakeholders, which by default leads us to better quality exchange programs.
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KMSA SCOPE External Representation: • Exchange gallery, SNGA 2021 SCOPE sessions: - Exchange gallery is an activity in which each LMO presents their exchange program and it’s contents. Here you can find KMSA SCOPE video that was presented in SCOPE sessions of SNGA 2021. • Meeting with MedSIN-Sudan Reform Committee: - MedSIN-Sudan Reform Committee had meetings with every LMO to assess the impact of the reform on each LMO’s exchanges. Our amazing 1st GA Rayan Mohammed represented KMSA SCOPE in the meeting with the committee.
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We saved the best for the last part: ● KMSA SCOPE Outgoings for the term 2021/22 For the first time since 2020, KMSA SCOPE has successfully sent 3 outgoing students, all of them are in batch 93:
• Month: October. • Had her clerkship in: /NMO: Carl de Gustay University - Dresden, Germany.
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• Month: October. • Had her clerkship in: /NMO: Carl de Gustay University - Dresden, Germany.
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• • Month: September. • Had her clerkship in: /NMO: Università U Cattolica del Sacro Cuore / italy-SISM.
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Amjad Mohammed| MedSIN-KMSA LEO Batch 95
Rayan Mohamed | LEO 1st GA Batch 96
Bakri Mohamed | LEO 2nd GA Batch 97
Ethar Khalid | LEO DA Batch 97
Eyad Khalid| LEO AA Batch 97
Mohamed Almustafa | LEO PA Batch 95
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Training Support Division (TSD)
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“None of us, including me, ever do great things. But we can all do small things, with great love, and together we can do something wonderful.” – Mother Teresa Completing the TSD team members by appointing the Developmental Assistant (Rama osman) and Publication Assistant(areej el tayeb) was the biggest achievement which was the actual beginning of a lot of work and achievements that will be done throughout the term. Achievements: • CB rocket activity: It was an activity that aimed to fill the gap of knowledge and skills that every member in the local team will definitely need to be able to fulfill his/her job description and increase their performance. It was a six days activity (online and physical) focusing on different aspects and also aiming to build a strong relationships between all local team members, the thing that will create a friendly and lovely work environment. ▫ Day one(14th of June): Written communication Online session which was facilitated by Razan mohammed “Ex LOME”. ▫ Day two(15th of June): Activity management Physical session conducted by Mohammed Saifaldin “IFMSA trainer, ex NPO 2nd GA and health systems program coordinator”. ◦ Day three(16th of August): 1. Team work skills physical session was facilitated by Hassan Omer “IFMSA trainer and ex NPO 2nd GA”. 2. Public Relation and Communication physical session was facilitated by Mohamed Adam Ajbna “IFMSA trainer and ex NPO PA”. ◦ Day four(19th of August) : Financial management physician session which was facilitated by Ibrahim Maysara “ MedSIN Sudan VPI and ex MedSIN KMSA Acting President “and Ahmed Rifaat “MesSIN KMSA treasurer”.
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A social program was held as a finishing to the physical part. part It was a wonderful and engaging game and the members enjoyed it. ◦Day five and six; IFMSA, MedSIN-Sudan and MedSIN-KMSA Overview online session which was facilitated by our amazing KMSA SecGen Ayah Omer Suliman.
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• TSD weekly message SWG: ▫ It was an activity aimed to prepare a detailed timeline and proposal to the TSD weekly message activity that will take part every week throughout the term.The SWG finished the work in one week and a great and detailed proposal was made and approved. ▫ SWG Participants: Ebtihal Naji |Omnia Abdallah | Rama and TSD team (Ashraf, Sahar and Wathig). • TSD weekly message: ▫ It is a local activity -that is going to be in a period of 21 weeks (including breaks and assessment and evaluation weeks)-in the form of weekly messages that is shared with the members to capacitate them with different topics about IFMSA, MedSIN-Sudan and the TSD, these topics organized in 3 levels (basic, intermediate and advanced) and sent accordingly. ▫ The content is conducted through different methods (infographics, voice notes,etc…) according to the topic of the week. A telegram channel to save the message and a whatsapp group for discussion were made. ▫ 15 messages were conducted successfully , one online discussion was held, 84 participants in whatsapp group and 77 subscribers in the telegram channel. • CB Fest activity: It was a capacity building event targeting KMSA members generally and the newcomers (batch 98) specifically, to capacitate them with the required soft skills, knowledge that will strongly enrich their abilities and make them able to develop themselves in different fields .the activity was in form of two national trainings(stress management on the 7th facilitated by mohammed adam Agbna from ISMSA and public speaking facilitated by Rawa abbas from RMSA 14th of July) and one local session (time management facilitated by Rwan Ali from ZAMSA on 12th of July).
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• Leadership Campaign: ▫ It was a national campaign in collaboration with RMSA (Ribat Medical student association ), aimed to improve the participants’ leading skills in-order to have them helping the LT in conducting future activities (work as head/ vice head of activities’ committees) or even hold positions. It was consisting of 4 different trainings under the theme of leadership, conducted in 4 days, two of which was hosted by RMSA and the other two by KMSA. The topics were: Leadership skills, communication skills, teamwork and team building and conflict management. • ▫
TRT phase”1”: It was an activity organized by SAMER team aimed to graduate research trainers. It consisted of many phases. TSD team conducted phase (1) which was a facilitation skills package and the topics were: session design, facilitation skills and online facilitation, facilitation interpersonal skills and session evaluation and feedback.
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• Project Summit workshop: Project Summit was a workshop containing a series of sessions that provided the participants with the knowledge and skills needed to design or translate their ideas into reality (From Idea to Impact). The activity duration was 6 days with a session per day. It was online via Google Meet targeting the general assembly and specifically the members who aspire to be part of the local projects teams. The session’s topics were (Written Communication, Teamwork, Public Relations and Communication, Financial Management and Fundraising, Project Management (101) and Project Management(102).
• Successors’ camp:
It was a physical local activity that aimed to capacitate and create qualified successors for all local team positions by providing members sessions packages focused on different aspects that are necessary for every local team member work. It was held in the form of four phases. “Phase (1): activity management and written skills, phase (2):application process , phase (3) : offices related knowledge and Phase (4): officials’ reflection space”. Other achievements: • TSD members database and needs assessment: A Google form contains members' database information and a needs assessment was designed and sent to members on the 26th of May. then the needs assessment was used for choosing the different trainings that will be conducted throughout the term • TSD IOGs: IOG was prepared, amended and adopted in order to organize the work of the team.
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• Conversion process: From the previous term , TSD team was planning to step forward and to upgrade the division to a higher level by conversion process . This term the idea was continued by conducting many meetings with different local team members in order to shape the conversion according to KMSA needs and that was what happened. TSD position will be converted to VPCB (vice president of capacity building) and all the paper and official preparations are in progress. • Facilitation camp graduation: It was a local activity to capacitate facilitators for different SCs in the previous term. Most of the graduation process takes part this term and KMSA got a batch of qualified and motivated facilitators for different standing committees.
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Ashraf Asim | MedSIN-KMSA TSDD Batch 95
Sahar Ayoub | TSDD 1st GA Batch 95
Mohammed Al Wathiq | TSDD 2nd GA Batch 95
Rama Osman | TSDD DA Batch 97
Areej Eltayeb |TSDD PA Batch 97
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Publication & New Technologies Support Division (PNTSD)
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• Achievements: 1. Appointment of Mohamed Ismail, Batch 97 as PNTSDD General Assistant. 2. Designed the new profile picture for our official FB page and YouTube channel.
3. Designed all needed posters for TOM observers and support letters. 4. The adoption of the PNTSD Internal Organization Guidelines took place in TOM (10). 5. Publication Guideline: These are Guidelines that organize the publication work in terms of logo usage, fonts, official documents, procedures, etc. It has been activated and adopted in TOM (10), and it could be amended according to the need and work development generally.
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6. Make “Meet your TOs & LT” Posters. Meet Your Local Team posters are designs prepared especially to let KMSA members know their Local Team Officials & Assistants, and get to know who are behind the scenes and appreciate and consider their efforts. Each SC/SD and the EB get to select a theme for their design. (Here) you can find “MUL” designs in better quality. Special Thank for Mohamed Al mustafa “LEO LEO PA” for Designing SCOPE LT POSTER.
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7. Stampped With Creativity (SWC) • Stamped With Creativity is a PRC online workshop that aims to lead the members in the road of Publication and Public Relations and Communication. The activity contained 4 sessions that introduced the participants to public relations, marketing, graphic designing, and color usage in general, as well as video editing tips. It took place from 3/5/2021 to 7/5/2021. Also, there were follow-up tasks, they were 6 tasks, one per week, to see how they would implement the knowledge that they learned.The follow up weeks took place from 24/5/2021 to 20/8/2021 including Eid Adha and Exams vacations. The sessions were as follows: ■ PR 101 Introduction to public relations and communication also talked about marketing, advertising and PR Tools. Facilitated by Azahir Ibrahim [KMSA PNTSDD 2020/2021] and Mohamed Agabna [Former NPO PA 2019/2020 ] on the 3rd of May 2021. ■ PR 102 It was an introduction to graphic design, the principles and the building Blocks of Graphic Design. It was facilitated by Rahegda Jamal [EMSA PNTSDD 2020/2021] and Mohammed Arbab [Former National PNTSDD 2019/2020] on the 4th of May 2021. ■ COLOUR YOUR OWN WAY It was about color theories and colors psychology, and how to apply them in our designs. It was facilitated by Abdelrahim Mutasim [Former ZAMSA PNTSDD] on the 6th of May 2021. ■ PR TIPS AND TRICKS It was about tips and tricks on video editing and designing. Facilitated by Rahegda Jamal [EMSA PNTSDD 2020/2021] and Azahir Ibrahim [KMSA PNTSDD 2020/2021] on the 7th of May 2021.
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8. SWC Follow Up Weeks As MedSIN-KMSA PNTSDD I decided to do a follow up weeks for KMSA participants. There were six tasks, one for each week. Tasks were about designing different types of things. The tasks were as follows: 1. Redesigning one of KMSA Posters in their own way. 2. Design a book cover with “Community of Lights” title. 3. Bakery Advertisement. 4. shoes commercial advertisement. 5. & 6. Restaurant Menu and a cover for the Menu. • The feedback system was by sending the PNTSDD all the participants designs, then the PNTSDD shares all the designs without referring to the designer, and then the participants start to give feedback and comment about each other designs. The feedback was given according to: ▫ Balance. ▫ Alignment. ▫ White space using. ▫ Font. ▫ color usage.
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▫ MedSIN-Sudan KMSA account in ISSUU ISSUU is a very simple, easy to use and easy to understand platform which is refreshing, it also can ensure users engagement on different types of devices. In order to offer you all these beautiful features and let you experience this refreshing experience, having all the valuable publications of our LMO together in one platform we are very glad to activate “MedSIN-Sudan KMSA Account” in ISSUU digital publishing platform. ▫ MedSIN-KMSA Magazine SWG This Small Working Group was made to help in preparing the 2nd issue of MedSIN-KMSA Magazine in terms of; designing the layout, reviewing the whole content, as well as translating it as we were planning to produce an Arabic version for it, the 2nd issue of the magazine was not released due to many reasons (Technical & situational), but the work of the SWG is terminated, and the rest of the work will be done by the PNTSDD as it is decided to merge the 2nd 3rd issues of the magazine. Also due to many obstacles regarding the arabic version, it is decided to post the english version only. ▫ ‘‘How to be an official’’ Posts Since our term in MedSIN-KMSA LT is came to the end, we decided to offer an open space for our members to ask any question that may come to their mind about being an official in the Local Team generally on both personal and professional aspects. (Here) you can find all of the “How to be an official” posts.
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PNTSD Team 2020/2021
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