The Academic Quality Sub-Committee
A new trend is emerging in IFMSA and that is to shift the publics misconception of IFMSA from the “travel agent’s association” to the recognized exchange program provider. In fact, many European National Member Organizations are stressing the point of improving this unique system of “student’s run exchange program” to a higher level, where the clerkships offered end up as being recognized as valid electives taken outside your university.
Following on our tradition of being pioneers in IFMSA, and after the many IFMSA General Assemblies in which SCOPE-LeMSIC has taken a very active part, it was decided to adopt IFMSA general recommendations in an effort to make the international exchange program a more “Serious” and “academic” one.
SCOPE-LeMSIC has volunteered to proof-run pilot projects for IFMSA and report back with its experience and comments on improving the exchanges.
It is in this effort that this sub-committee was created and it was assigned, among others, the following tasks:
- Implementing the “Student’s Logbook”
- Implementing the “Student’s Checklist”
- Collecting “Exchange Evaluations” and setting practical conclusions
- Collaborate with SCOME in forming a valid exchange clerkship.
Student’s Logbook
A full and detailed logbook offered to all incomings, and that the students takes with him daily during his rotation, noting what he has done, and the major learning of the day, and signed by the attending doctor accompanying the student during his rotation. It will server both as a tracer for the students evolution at the hosting hospital and a tool for the original university in any effort to adopt the clerckship.
Student’s checklist
A simplified checklist for all the tasks that the student has done or allowed to do in the hosting hospital, signed by the attending doctor at the end of the clerkship. It will for a testimony to the level of involvement that the student was allowed to have, and a better understanding of the clerkship.
Evaluation Forms
Each incoming or outgoing student will be handed an evaluation form for him to fill at the end of his clerkship. These evaluations will be thoroughly analyzed and feedbacks highly valued to come back with partical conclusions on with which countries to sign future contracts and which not, as well as where to improve in our
