"The physician should look upon the patient as a besieged city and try to rescue him with every means that art and science place at his command." Alexander of Tralles

What's SCOME?

The Standing Committee on Medical Education (SCOME) is one of six committees that make up the Lebanese Medical Student's International Committee (LeMSIC). SCOME constitutes a forum for medical students to discuss all aspects related to medical education, with the aim of improving our medical curriculum, the educational environment, and implementing an optimal learning environment for medical students. We believe that medical students play an integral role in reshaping the medical curriculum especially since they are the first to experience the impact of such changes.

 

 

 

In addition, we have the role of supporting and orienting medical students, mainly new recruits, by means of publications, direct interactions, debates, lectures, and workshops on aspects of medical training which are not sufficiently covered by the medical curriculum. Our mission is to "... try to promote modern medical education. Convinced by many positive examples we go on that mission by teaching and training students and professors, exchanging experiences and spreading information." We also assume the duty of supporting our five sister committees in LeMSIC in their respective endeavors.

As a member of the International    Federation of Medical Students' Associations (IFMSA), SCOME works in collaboration with organizations such as the World Federation for Medical Education (WFME) and the World Health Org anization (WHO). Such contacts enable us to display our local achievements in reforming and improving medical education in the international scene for the benefit of other SCOMEs worldwide, as well as    to receive information on the progress of other committees sharing our aims.

SCOME PROJECTS

SCOME FUNDRAISING

ACTIVITIES 2007