March 2018
Have you ever felt that something is not working properly in your medical school and that you need to do something about it? How you are taught, evaluated in class, number of practice hours, how your internship works and so on? If you say yes, there is a little SCOMEdian living inside you. The Standing Committee on Medical Education, SCOME, is one of the first Standing Committees in IFMSA, founded in 1951. Since that moment, we have empowered medical students to become active stakeholders in the local and global medical education systems. New information, research, and updates come every day to the medical knowledge. But this fast pace, is not always followed by medical schools. As well as teachers, that are expert doctors in their medical fields, but don’t always have the required skills to teach. Here is where SCOME comes, providing a platform and building capacity on medical students to advocate on their learning environment. Medical students are continuously exposed to their medical curricula; therefore, we should act as quality assurance agents. These has been achieved through an active participation in the schools’ discussion committees and boards, by advocacy activities, projects and workshop that aim to fill the learners gap or by raising awareness with the different education stakeholders. As SCOME International Team, we are working to represent the needs of medical students and provide tools and capacity building opportunities all over the world. A big example of these are the TMETs, Training Medical Education Trainers, which is a recognized international workshop. And the new AMET – Advanced Medical Education Training, that has as ultimate goal to create health and educator advocates. This 2018 will mark a special moment in SCOME. With a new Strategic Plan, the collaboration with other Standing Committees, the integration of the regional work and the inclusion of SCOMEdians in our daily work. What are you waiting for to become part of the SCOME family?
Pablo Estrella SCOME Director on behalf of the International Team, Katerina, Matteo, Linah, Catarina, Ximena, Aqsa, Alaa and Marouane.
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