Standing Committee On Professional Exchange: 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.
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. AMSB provides excanges for more than 130 students every year in countries from whole Europe and all over the world.
Standing Committee On Research Exchange: The standing committee on Research Exchange (SCORE) is frequently referred to as SCOPE's little sister. Although both are in the exchange business, this comparison fails to capture the main aspect of SCORE which makes it stand out... The fact that it deals with research. Although overlooked in many medical school curricula, research has been gaining in importance recently, especially with the advent of Evidence Based Medicine (EBM). Having research experience, not to mention publications in medical journals, is held in high regard by residency programs and hospitals.
SCORE provides the medical students with a unique possibility to experience a clinical or pre-clinical research in a foreign country. The student is incorporated in a research team and conducts a research work under the supervision of a certain tutor. The student will be guided through the basic principles of research, such as literature studies, collecting information, scientific writing, laboratory work, statistics and ethical aspects.
The research project itself deepens the specific knowledge in the field of the student's interest. The possibility of doing the research abroad contributes to the broadening of the students' professional and human horizon; it introduces a different approach to research, medical education, health care and ethics to the student. Through this international exchange program, SCORE hopes to contribute to the international co-operation and understanding between the medical faculties, research institutes and - last but not least - among the students and health care professionals as the human beings.
Standing Committee On Public Health: Being IFMSA's largest Standing Committee, SCOPH includes an immense number of project and activities on various issues. These include tobacco, malaria, tuberculosis, obesity & lifestyle, mental health, children’s activities, organ donation, drug abuse, road safety, alcohol, women’s health, the environment and many more!
Standing Committee On Reproductive Health incl. AIDS: SCORA, the Standing Committee on Reproductive Health including AIDS, mainly focuses on topics related to HIV/AIDS, prevention and sexuality in a broad view. The two main projects carried out in SCORA are activities around December 1st: World-AIDS-Day, and prevention programs for high-school-students.
SCORA aims to raise awareness on a variety of reproductive health issues amongst the wide public, to spread the knowledge regarding HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted infections (STI's) and to decrease stigma and discrimination against people living with HIV/AIDS.
Standing Committee On Medical Education: Medical Education should be a concern of every medical student as it shapes not only the quality future doctors, but also the quality of healthcare. IFMSA has a dedicated organ which aims to implement an optimal learning environment for all medical students around the world- the Standing Committee on Medical Education (SCOME). It was one of the IFMSA's first three standing committees from the beginning of its foundation in 1951. IFMSA SCOME acts as a discussion forum for students interested in the different aspects of medical education in the hope of pursuing and achieving its aim.
Standing Committee On Right and Peace:
In Vivo: "In Vivo" – national medical students' magazine is a media with years of history. It started as a regular monthly newspaper where student could discuss different topics of interest, read interviews with professors on significant matters. Through the years its “lifestyle” orientation is kept but it slowly and gradually turned into more sophisticated outline. Nowadays it is a full colour 16 page magazine, where students can write about their discontent or give proposals for solving problems in our education. It is also the place where the students’ life is on display. The young and hard working team creating the magazine is always trying to be objective in the covering of what is happening in our University.
International Congress of Medical Sciences - Sofia, Bulgaria: AMSB is proud to be the main organizer of the largest congress for medical students and young doctors in Eastern Europe - ICMS Sofia. It is an annual congress at the beginning of may and is held under the patronage of the rector of our University - Prof. Vanyo Mitev. For the past six years the International Congress of Medical Sciences in Sofia has become an event that stands out from the common congress meetings of this type. This is a result of our constant will and determination to go further and provide the best tribune to all those young scientists and future doctors who carry the light of the explorer. Our mission is to give opportunity for all of us to communicate and exchange ideas upon topics in the field of medicine, dentistry, pharmacology and bioethics and thus strengthen the European network of scientific collaboration.
