SCOPE is a abbrevation of Standing Comittee od Professional Exchange.
Before we going for the next explanation., scope is a standing comittee beyond CIMSA. now you guys must be wondering what CIMSA is.
CIMSA aka Centre of Indonesian Medical Student Activities. so its an organization for indonesian medical student to gather and doing many projects and others. and CIMSA has 6 Sco, one of that is SCOPE.
The Standing Committee On Professional Exchange (SCOPE) is the first created IFMSA Standing Committee. It constitutes the largest exchange program within IFMSA and it has been running since the organisation's foundation in 1951.Nowadays, 78 countries are involved in IFMSA SCOPE. In all these countries, there are 1003 Medical schools and 676 of them have IFMSA Local Committee.
The aim of SCOPE is to promote international understanding and co-operation amongst medical students and all health professionals through international exchange of students.
The exchange program offers students unique educational and cultural experience in addition to the regular medical curriculum. It also helps to broaden the students understanding of medical and social conditions in different countries.
Currently over 6 600 international exchanges are made every year, and 78 countries throughout the world are taking part in SCOPE.
There are 11 local scope in Indonesia.one of them is us ! Syiah Kuala University aka Unsyiah! so here we are!
