PERISCOPE, 4th Edition: Vol. 1

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preface from MCC+Team

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ello PeriSCOPEOPLE all over Indonesia! How are you?

Finally, our first PeriSCOPE for this period has been released. We would like to thank to God, our contributors, NEC-LEOs and SCOPEOPLE who had helped until this magazine can be done.

As we know, PeriSCOPE is such a tight junction between the cells. The issue of this edition is “Medical Students’ Contribution Beyond 2015: MDGs Evaluation and The Next Global Agenda”.

PeriSCOPE brings you some articles regarding it.

We also had reports for you who want to know how fun AM 2014 Taiwan and APRM 2014 Bangladesh. In project corner, we have ‘Guwe Gembel’ from SCOPE UNAND as the elected project.

There is a special news for SCOPEOPLE that we hold a photo competition! Just go read for details.

Lastly, we hope PeriSCOPE will always be the magazine SCOPEOPLE waiting for. Enjoy reading!

Fahmi Kurniawan | Andi Muhammad Rizqi | Nadhila Shafira Fitri Media and Communication Coordinator + Team

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CONTRIBUTORS Andhika Citra Buana SCOPE UIN 2013 Rismita Saldeni Afida Razuna Ave Freddy Chandra N. Nadia Oktarina R. Agara Haryo P.P Sefrina Trisadi Armalya Pritazahra

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preface from NEOs

To the beloved SCOPEople, This is our very first PeriSCOPE along with the new team of NEC, and this gets us all nervous yet excited! As we are now entering the end of 2014, we are one year closer to the target date of Millennium Development Goals in 2015. In this moment, we need to trace back our attempts working on this MDGs program in order to compile the next strategies. We need to constantly remember that medical students have significant role on actualizing the goals, therefore we gather in Yogyakarta, the heart of Java, the travelers paradise and the students base, to attend October Meeting 2014 themed ‘Medical Students’ Contribution Beyond 2015: MDGs’ Evaluation and The Next Global Agenda’.

Armalya Pritazahra | R. Taqiyya Zahra Wathoni

National Exchange Officer for Outgoing & Incoming CIMSA 2014-2015

Along with the theme, we have main focus on empowering medical students to contribute more in improving nation’s health through trainings, discussions, grand lecture and student panel and of course, the most awaited agenda in every October Meeting, Parallel Session!! In this OM we have 11 hours of SCOPE Session with full of content yet enlightened agendas.

Last but not least, we praise God for the strengths and miracles He gave us to finish this PeriSCOPE and every preparation for October Meeting. The highest appreciation is given to the contributors of this captivating PeriSCOPE and everyone who dedicated their thoughts, energies and times for this October Meeting.

Happy reading! :)

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WHAT WILL HAPPEN AFTER 2015?

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he Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) consist of 8 points which was declared at The Millennium Declaration in New York in 2000.

The aims of it are to accelerate human’s development and to end poverty.

We have already known that 8 points of MDGs are targeted to be fulfilled in 2015. However, there are

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many aspects of MDGs to be evaluated. For example, the MDGs’ achievement of each country is different. Moreover, MDGs don’t include points of human rights, equity, democracy, and government.

In 2012, there was held a United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development in Rio de Janerio, Brazil (Rio +20 Conference).

It produced a document called “The Future we want”.

After that, The United Nations made some task teams consist of UN bodies, international organization, and country member of UN suit to its issues: economic, health, social, and so on in progress of arranging PostMDGs development goals.

Then, it called Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

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for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels, 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the global partnership for sustainable development So, with those points of SDGs, what can we do as medical students in contributing for health post 2015? Actually, being medical students is a big opportunity for us to contribute. We can divide our contributions in three points. There are learn, discuss, and act. First, we can learn topics which are related to health post 2015 and much information regarding it. Second, to make a highlight and an optimal knowledge, we can hold a discussion with our friends, expert, and anyone regarding it. We also can discuss about evaluation of MDGs and what can we do next. Third, after we have concluded some results, we can act in improving health. Our actions are easy to be implemented such as being a healthy person, joining health activities in our campus, and helping others with their health.

Perhaps our contributions now are not big.

But as anonymous said, never stop doing the little things, because maybe those little things occupy the biggest part of others’ heart. Go contribute!

Reference: Primastuti PA. Post MDG. Jakarta: WHO Indonesia; 2014

SDGs consist of 17 goals as follows: 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere, 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition, and promote sustainable agriculture, 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages, 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote life-long learning opportunities for all, 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls, 6. Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all, 7. Ensure access to affordable, reliable, sustainable, and modern energy for all , 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all , 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation , 10.

Reduce inequality within and among countries, 11. Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable, 12. Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns, 13. Take urgent action to combat climate changes and its impacts, 14. Conserve and sustainably use of the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development, 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss, 16. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies

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What Can We Do as MedICAL StudENTS?

“if you want to reach the big, you must do the small”

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he Millennium Declaration (UN, 2000) was quoted in countless speeches, reports and articles for several months. But after a while, the attention started to fade. It was then that the idea arose to lift selected targets verbatim from the text and to place them into a free-standing list in order to keep them in the limelight for a longer period.

In this sense, the MDGs have been quite successful. (Jan Vandermoortele, 2012).

MDGs formulation that declarated in the first of this century is coming to an end in 2015. Every government in this earth is now focusing on evaluating and start to think, what next after MDGs? If we can make some review for MDGs evaluation that were doing by UN (United Nations), we can take some points which are the problems why goals for MDGs are still cannot be achieved by some countries because some of MDGs goal are not realistic for some countries in this earth.

From that point of evaluating, UN is go-

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ing to make some points in post-MDGs 2015 can be achieved by all countries in this world.

As medical students, actually we can do something to support MDGs. Because we cannot always give this job for government, we as part of Indonesian citizens and medical students must help the government for the goal of MDGs. If we cannot do big thing, we can do the small thing that make some bigger impacts in the future.

CIMSA has been doing something for Indonesia, especially about healthy in the first time. We help government with “Empowering medical student and improving the nations health”.

So the point is, as medical students we can give our dedication for this country, with our activities in CIMSA, we can help the government to reach the goals of MDGs. Our hope is whatever we do, even the smallest thing for this country, we can make the better future to Indonesia.

References 1. Report submitted to the UN Task Force regarding the post-2015 framework for development: Advancing the UN development agenda post-2015: some practical suggestions.Jan Vandermoortele. Bruges, Belgium, 2012 2. UN system Task Team On The Post-2015 UN Development agenda.The MDGs After 2015:Some Reflections on the Possibilities. Deepak Nayyar. April 2012

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“Road to

Post MDGs 2015: This is it! Are we ready to be a part of the big changes?”

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illenium Development Goals which work in 8 points of issues,from eradicating extreme poverty to promoting global partnership , will finally arrive at its target date—2015. Within these past few years, the programs and campaigns about all the 8 points mentioned in MDGs has bring the systems into the next level.

MDGs has given its contribution in developing many countries worldwide. MDGs programs consist of supporting education, socio-economic opportunities include the development, environment, personal safety and of course, health care.

As the MDGs expires in a few months, UN Development Group promotes and guides countries to set the brand new intergovernmental policy to continue the development and to once again bring people world wide to have a better life. This postMDGs developments agenda is expected to tacke many issues,including ending poverty and hunger,improving health and education,making cities more sustainable, combating climate change and protecting ocean and forests Indonesia is one of the countries who already start the arrangement of post-MDGs agenda by opening the public flatforms and working groups to make the discussions about what we need to do to close the MDGs because we do believe that the con-

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tinuity of MDGs programs will give huge impacts to global development.

As medical students,we have our own duty to contribute and support the MDGs program, especially those that related to health issues.

MDGs’s focuses on health are MDGs point 4 ( Reduce Children Mortality), point 5 (Improve Maternal Health), and point 6 (Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria and other diseases ). The head federation of medical students worldwide, IFMSA or International Federation of Medical Students Associations, has put this post-MDGs agenda as the main focus of efforts with goals to empower the youth, precisely the medical students to contribute and work together for bringing the nations into a better standart of health and living.

The MDGs evalutions on health (point 4, 5 and 6) showed that we already achieved many things within the last few years. It already reduce the rate of mortality of childrens worldwide between the years 1990 to 2015, it also help reduce the maternal mortality ratio by 45% since 1990.

And last but not least, MDGs programs on health also prevent 3.3 million malaria deaths in the span of 12 years and distributed live saving medicines for HIV in 2012.

These achievements mentioned before are not the final line of MDGs programs of

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health because we need to step up and take the post MDGs agenda to continue the health care development, because there is still more than 6 million children die each year before their fifth birthday, only half of women in developing regions receive recommended health care during pregnancy and 50 young women infected with HIV every hour. See? We still got works to do so we really need to step up by now.

As medical students, we have this urgent needs to set our goals to contribute in postMDGs agenda especially in developing better health care for everyone, no matter who they are and where they come from.

We can contribute by joining the flatform or open discussions about healthcare development and start the collaboration with other health workers to create a better health service for everyone.

Be the part of CIMSA is also a very good way to involved and supports the postMDGs agenda into a sustainable development project. We can share the ideas and thoughts about everything that related to nation’s health improvement. We also have to believe that we can make a big change with small little changes around us, example, we can shared the informations about this post-MDGs agenda to friends, family, Reference: www.un.org/milleniumgoals/beyond2015-overview.shtml

neighbors, and everyone around us who can possibly get the information.

And then, to supports the MDGs focus on health, we can also start making a small campaign about health issues and ,example about infectious diseases or about HIV and AIDS. To support MDGs point 4, we can contribute by making a campaign about the importance of vaccines with people who maybe have lower awareness about how vaccines can help prevent the diseases.

To support MDGs number 5, we can make small working groups to help women understand how to protect their health during pregnancy and after giving birth.

This action hopefully can educate and initiate a good move to live a healthy life, and of course help to reduce the rate of the incident locally and inspire people to starts doing the same little step to contribute in making a better health service into reality.

As a future doctors , we will be the ones who taking care of people’s health throughout our lives so that we need to start put our attention on every health issues and monitor the systems that shaped the health system’s frameworks . Get involved, raise our awareness and be the part of the huge change!

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“KNOWING THE SPECIFIC PROBLEM”

by: Freddy Chandra N. SCOPE UB

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s we all already know, the realization of Millenium Development Goals are set until 2015, which is getting nearer.

But there are still a lot of problems related to the goals itself remain nowadays, and the realization of the goals itself is not as easy as it seems, eventhough MDGs are introduced to almost every important organization within the countries over the world.

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As a medical student, we should be involved in the evaluation of the realization of MDGs itself and give real contributions to reach the purpose of MDGs now and in the future, particularly in settling health problems. The evaluation itself is really important because only from

there, we can come to the new ideas of resolving world’s problems in the more specific and measurable ways, so everything that has not achieved yet during MDGs era can be achieved.

First, the main evaluation for The Millenium Development Goals is MDGs specify the outcomes but do not set out the journey. Second, the MDGs are stipulated without any reference to initial conditions, but where a country gets to in any given time horizon depends at least, in part, on where it starts out from.

Global goals meant as norms, but often read as targets, also do not recognize that there may be significant differences in national priori-

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ties. In sum, the MDGs focus on a comparison between an undesirable state and a desirable state, but do not recognize the importance of the process of change, or the transition path, from one state to the other.

This implicit separation of ends and means compounds the problem.

But that is not all. There is another fundamental limitation. The MDGs are set out in terms of aggregates or averages which often conceal asmuch as they reveal because there is no reference to distributional outcomes. The depictionof social indicators of development as arithmetic means or statistical averages provides a single summary measure but it cannot reflect the well-being of the poor, most of whom are significantly below any line that is drawn on the basis of an average.

Therefore, a meaningful assessment of progress in the living conditions of people must recognize rather than ignore the existence of inequality. The ‘tyranny of averages’ can be deceptive, if not misleading. It is essential to disaggregate outcomes so as to reveal rather than conceal distributional realities. In terms of design, there are three basic limitations. First, there is a multiplicity

of objectives. There are 8 goals, 18 quantifiable targets now increased to 21, and 48 indicators now increased to 60. Second, the objectives are specified in many different ways.

Some objectives are set out in proportional terms: reducing the proportion of people who live in poverty or hunger by one-half; reducing child mortality rates by twothirds; reducing maternal mortality rates by three-fourths; or reducing the proportion of people without access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation facilities by one-half.

Other objectives are set out in terms of completion: universal primary education; gender equality in school education; productive employment with decent work for all; or universal access to reproductive health.

Yet other objectives are set out as statements of intentions: reduce loss in bio-diversity or improve the lives of slum-dwellers. Third, some indicators, particularly the poverty head count, are inappropriate and could be misleading. The problems associated with these three limitations are almost obvious. Even so, they are worth highlighting.

Source : 1. UN system Task Team On The Post-2015 UN Development agenda.The MDGs After 2015:Some Reflections on the Possibilities. Deepak Nayyar; April 2012

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MEDICAL STUDENTS’ EXPECTATIONS ON MDGS 4 PRESERVATION

However, Indonesia tends to move 15 years backward. From the data above, Indonesia is predicted to fail in achieving Goal 4 of MDGs (and also Goal 5) in the end of 2015 considering the increasing number of AKI (Angka Kematian Ibu; Maternal Mortality Rate) and AKB (Angka Kematian Bayi; Infant Mortality Rate).

Immunization program is one other major influence. Currently, the government is providing immunizations for nearly all of the children in this republic. However, it still doesn’t cover all of them.

In 2007, 82% of children immunized against TB, and 80% against hepatitis.

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However, it should be a continuous process. It is worrying that the numbers of immunization against polio and measles (rubella), around 74% a few years ago to 70%. Measles is also a concern because

immunization rates of 72% for infants and 82% for children up to 23 months, while the government’s target is 90%. It is estimated that 30,000 children die every year due to measles complications and recently there are some outbreaks polio children that have been paralyzed.

Fund did help. Not just for healing, but also disease prevention. The death of a child is not happening only in the first year, but also quite a lot going on the week or even the first days of their lives. That is, one must improve the quality of maternal and child health services, especially during and immediately after childbirth. If they survive this period, the biggest risk they face is an acute respiratory infection and diarrhea. Both can be cured if treated early enough. Overall, the health of children is strongly associated with the health of their mothers.

As medical student, we realize that infant and child mortality rates reflect a country’s level of health development and quality of life of the people. To be a clinician and public health official, using HRQoL or Health-related quality of life is a must. So the way to make Indonesia’s quality of live in positive trend we should restate MDG 4 in next United Nations health-new framework. Because of it, we expect that reducing child mortality should be listed again as one of the objectives in SDGs. We also believe that reducing mortality rate of our nation children is a long term mission to get a better life, for a better Indonesia.

Source : Peran pemerintah dalam upaya menyukseskan tujuan pembangunan milenium oleh Ahmad Soehaedjono MD.

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hen talking about child mortality, the government usually refers to children under the age of five (toddlers). This is a useful distinction, which shows the proportion of children who died, either in infancy or before reaching the age of five. According to The Republic of Indonesia,” Report on The Achievement of MDGs Indonesia 2010 files” The child mortality under five years of age decreased from 97 per 1,000 live births in 1991 to 41 per 1,000 in 2007 and is expected to reach the target, 32 per 1,000 live birth in 2015.

Looking back to 1990 MDGs baseline achievement, Indonesia was on the top level on reducing the maternal mortality.

by: Rismita Saldeni & Afida Razuna Ave SCOPE UNAND

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lovenia is located in south central europe which is bordering Italy to the west, Austria to the north, Croatia to the south and southeast, and Hungary to the northeast. The capital city of this country is Ljubljana which is the largest city in Slovenia.

If you want to go exchange to Slovenia you have to fulfill the following exchange conditions. In Slovenia, we have 6 hours a day for 5 days in a week. And there’s no night shift. We also have to attend the clinic at least 80% of the duration of the clerkship. And it has 4 weeks of clerkship duration. It’s a must to bring our stethoscope and whitecoat.

There’re two towns which we can choose, Ljubljana and Maribor. They both have the beauty of Slovenia.

In Ljubljana, during the summer months (JulySeptember), the local officer could manage afternoon activities from monday to friday and also a weekend trip every week for us. In

Maribor, there is one of the biggest multicultural festivals in Europe, Lent Festival, going on in July every year.

When you were in Slovenia, you have to explore the beauty of Slovenia. there’re a lot of beautiful objects such as Ljubljana Castle and Arboretum Volčji Potok.

Ljubljana Castle (Ljubljanski grad) was inhabited back in the 12th century BC. Preserved from this early period of settlement are the remains of the Urn Tomb culture. It is located in Ljubljana city. It’s located on top of the hill at the center of Ljubljana city. So we can see the beautiful architectures of Ljubljana city from here.

Volčji Potok Arboretum is the most frequented horticultural amenity which’s established in 1952.

At Volčji Potok arboretum, we can see a lot of beautiful flowers. It also has been known for the spring flower shows.

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he world’s largest and perhaps least understood country definitely deserves the visit of any inquisitive, adventurous person, whether it be for short history—and museum— heavy trip through Moscow and St Petersburg’s cultural treasures, or a more wide-ranging trip that could include an almost endless list of destinations: the mountains of the Caucasus, the beaches of the Black Sea, the vast Volga River, the endless tracts of Taiga in Siberia, magical Lake Baikal, or the volcanoes of Kamchatka.

If you do choose Russia as your exchange destination, there are 23 cities available for you! The important thing you need to take note of is, no universities will accept you from January 1st till 10th, since they’re celebrating their own National New Year Holiday on those

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days. Some cities will only receive like 2-6 students all year so yeah… small chance to get accepted there. But don’t worry! And due to the super fresh news from their recently concluded national meeting, Saratov and Tomsk are now on the list too! And it looks like they haven’t decided on their “no application allowed” months yet.

There are several exchange conditions over there. Preclinical clerkship is allowed but only on special agreement with NEO and not on the summer months. All clerkship will start on the 1st calendar day of the desired month and last for 4 weeks. 6 hours per day, 5 days a week and you can get nightshifts. You can also choose all clinical fields except psychiatry. Actually— again due to the news from their latest national meeting— you can choose

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psychiatry only if you have met these conditions; only in LC Ryazan, have basic knowledge of Russian, and have special permission from the NEO. Deadline for applications is 4 months before beginning of clerkship.

So, what do we need to prepare for an exchange to Russia?? Health and accident insurance from your country is mandatory. Stethoscope, surgical scrubs, and white coat like always. The rest is just the usual standard documents and newly added ADL to be filled but, there are (again) special remarks put in place after their recent national meeting, especially regarding the visa. In several cities, you must use the student visa (not the touristic one) and to get it, you must get IL from university since IL from the database isn’t valid to receive visa. And apparently, it takes 6 weeks now to prepare IL from the

migration service. And without student visa, you won’t be registered in Russia.

Oh, and you need to arrive at your LC at least 3 days after crossing the border. If not, then you’ll be sent back to your home country, with fees! Yes, so please time your arrival. Also, your passport must still be valid 9 months after the last day of your suppositional clerkship.

Those new conditions are valid for contracts signed in AM Taiwan 2014 onwards. Last words, don’t let those seemingly hard to fulfilled conditions prevent you to choose Russia. Since their rich history and traditions of the country together with high level of medical knowledge of their doctors will make your exchange useful and unforgettable!

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re you brave enough to go abroad to Iceland?

Wait! Before you decided to choose this country, actually to make it simpler for you guys I think it’s better if you guys understand about the exchange conditions regarding the country.

Here we go! Iceland is a country in West Europe.

It is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean and Arctic Ocean. Iceland uses English as one of the alternate language that can be used, but Swedish, Danish, and Norwegian are spoken by many health professionals there. Then, if you go exchange to Iceland, you will do clerkship for 5 days per week and 8 hours per day. Don’t forget to wear casual clothes and bring your stethoscope. Sometimes the hospital also provides the white coat when you guys are doing the clerkship.

Iceland also has special exchange conditions or additional remarks that usually can accept student in July and August. One of

the city that you guys will be staying at is Akureyri or Reykjavik. There are 40 available departments in Iceland so you can choose by yourself. For those of you who cannot speak English fluently, don’t be sad because the hospital also provides surgery department as one of the alternative criteria.

The standards documents that are needed are health insurance, language certificate, motivation letter for 4 different departments you choose, passport copy, photo, and proof of enrollment. Moreover you guys should also submit special documents which are HepB Antibodies count, MRSA Test, Tuberculosis test, and Vaccination card.

Since the weather in Iceland is cold, don’t forget to bring your own jacket and sleeping bag for camping.

For further information regarding Iceland, just go click ifmsa.org, then exchange conditions, afterthat professional exchange and choose Iceland!

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Guwe Gembel G

A Project of SCOPE UNAND

uwe Gembel, that title sounds strange right?

Guwe Gembel is a project from SCOPE of Andalas University. Guwe Gembel is a Language Course and playing Games with Bule. The project officer of Guwe Gembel is Nadia Oktarina. She is also a LEO for outgoing of Andalas University.

Actually, Guwe Gembel is a new project. The target for this project is SCOPEOPLE but the other CIMSA members and FK UNAND students can join this project.

Guwe Gembel is a tentative project that held everytime if there was an incoming. This project was held on weekdays at 4 pm for an hour and It is held in the gazebo of FK UNAND mosque. Sometimes, we can spend over an hour because of the enjoyment.

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We study the language, culture, and the life in the incoming homecountry. So, we can improve our knowledge about another country and deepening our relationship with the incoming. Guwe Gembel is like a language course with

a class of 10-15 students and The incomming become the teacher.

At first, we study the language. We learn the basic conversations like introductions, numbers, greeetings, and we learn how to ask the price (So, we can do bargaining when we go to their country). we also learn how express our feelings. There is a speaking test for the students too. And at the test, we also have to mention our phone number in their language.

For the next part, we study the culture of the incoming country. We learn about the annual festival, the history, the government, the location, and the cuisine. There is so much excitement yeaayyy!!!Guwe Gembel has been held for 3 times with incomings from 3 different countries.

After the course, we play some games with the incoming. No one want to get a boring course, right?

So we add some games on it. The games we played were Indonesia traditional games. It’s so much fun :D.

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eNeraL aSSeMbLy NG 2014 TaIWaN A report by

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t was such a remarkable experience for 8 CIMSA delegates who were attending the 63rd IFMSA General Assembly, held in Taipei, Taiwan. During 7 days in the warmth of Taipei’s summer breeze, we blended ourselves with approximately 800 medical students from around the world for sharing thoughts and ideas that will pass on to improve the world.

“Sustainable Development for the New Era” was chosen to be the topic of August meeting. Opened by a distinguished ceremony with some thought-provoking speeches from President of Taiwan, Ma Ying-Chiu about Taiwan’s public health policies, national health insurance system, participation in international medical assistance and international medical bodies, followed by warm welcome by the chair of the assembly, Po Yu Hsieh and then the president of IFMSA, Mr. Joško Miše with his inspiring remarks: “we are truly citizens of the world. What happens in the

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world effect all of us. It is our business, our responsibility to do something about it. Never doubt that the smallest people can change the world.” had encouraged all of us to take part in international medical activities and consolidating medical students around the globe.

Following the next 6 days filled with sessions, rousing parties every night and surely……super massive contract fair made this assembly unforgettable and the post-GA blues even worse. As well as the IFMSA Team of Officials 2013-2014 ended their term and did a quite touching farewell, then followed by introduction of the new elected ones, led by Mr. Agostinho Sousa as the new president of IFMSA. And that is a glimpse story of the August Meeting back then. We surely had a productive week and good taste of Taiwanese culture. Here I also present you sneak peek of what each standing committee was having during the GA.

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SCOPE SCOPE Bylaw changes (which now we call it SCOPE Regulation) SCOPE journey and future plan Small working groups Contract Fair SCORE New NMO presentations Bylaw voting Small working groups and workshops Contract Fair SCORA Comprehensive sexuality education and integration of services Trainings: Communication skills on sex, new technologies, advocacy, projects Updates on HIV/AIDS from UN agencies

SCOME Human resource for global health: presentation about the quality of human resources available in the present time especially those who work as health provider.

LOME and NOME empowerment training SCOPH Road safety discussions: major deaths in young people due to lack of road safety Climate change and health discussion SCORP Illegal immigrants and uninsured people discussions Poverty trap: the situation which can lead people become poorer

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eeTING 2014 baNGLadeSH A report by

ARMALYA PRITAZAHRA

National Exchange Officer for Outgoing CIMSA 2014-2015 SCOPE Regional Asistant for Asia Pacific IFMSA 2014-2015

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nternational Federation of Medical Students’ Associations or IFMSA for short, is the largest organization of medical students in the world representing, a total of more than 2 million medical students from almost 109 countries worldwide. IFMSA is organized into five regions as follows: Africa, America, Asia-Pacific, Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean Region. Each region has its own yearly regional meeting, and the last Asia-Pacific Regional Meeting was held in Bangladesh September 8th to 21st 2014.

The theme of this Regional Meeting is proposed to be Disaster Risk Management: Every Second Counts – Each Life Matters, focusing particularly on the fast and effective response after certain disaster. Agendas for this meeting

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consist of standing committees’ sessions, president sessions, trainings, workshop, small working group, national food and drink party, welcoming-farewell parties, and etcetera. Let’s take a peak of what happened in the SCOPE sessions.

At this APRM, SCOPE sessions were combined with the SCORE sessions. There were three standing committees’ sessions and one on each day. On the first session (day one), the SCOPE-SCORE session started with an introduction of the sessions and getting to know each of the participants. In every session it was always opened with a little energizer as a warm up. Then the participants learned more about exchange procedure, before starting with the explanations they sorted list of tasks for

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exchange officers written in pieces of papers and put it in the correct months. Then after learned about exchange procedure, they had a workshop on pre-departure trainings or pre-exchange trainings.

On the second day, they had small working groups (SWG) to discuss about creative exchange promotion, inter-Asia Pacific NMO exchange, and strengthening new LC(s). The participants were divided into three groups and each discussed a topic. After SWG, Agostinho Moreira de Sousa current LO to Medical Education at that time (and now President of IFMSA) gave a workshop on exchange recognition. Followed by explanation about academic quality and the used of logbook. Then the next day on the third session, because the time was cut off there

was another small working groups about advance matters which are cancellation and postponement, trainings for exchange officers, LEO/NEO handover. At the end of the session SCOPE-SCORE joined sessions’ participants had a photo session before parting.

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