The Standing Committee on Medical Education (SCOME)

History of the

Committee

SCOME was one of IFMSA’s first standing committees from the beginning of its foundation in 1951. It acts as a discussion forum for students interested in the different aspects of medical education in the hope of pursuing and achieving its aim. Today, SCOME works mainly in medical education capacity building.

SCOME provides several platforms and methods to educate medical students worldwide on various medical education issues. This knowledge empowers them to advocate to be a part of the decision-making chain. SCOME believes in medical students as important stakeholders in creating, developing, and implementing medical education systems.

Vision

Medical students are meaningfully engaged within their respective Medical Education Systems and represent student voice in issues regarding Medical Education as full-fledged stakeholders on all levels in order to create quality Medical Education worldwide and attain suitable competencies which will enable them to answer the healthcare needs of communities they have a mandate to serve.

Mission

Our mission is to be the frame in which medical students worldwide contribute to the development of medical education. Students convene in SCOME to share and learn about medical education in order to improve it as well as benefit the most from it on a personal and professional basis.

Objectives

○ Empower Medical students to learn about medical education in order to improve, develop it and benefit the most from it.

○ Empower medical students, doctors, and para-medical, with the needed skills they need to diagnose, save lives, communicate, and make the most suitable decisions they can as healthcare providers.

○ Provide medical students and graduates with the needed clinical and soft skills to further develop the healthcare system.

○ Provide students with the competencies and knowledge needed for reacting in an adequate manner in emergencies through regular Basic and Advanced Life Support workshops.

○ Encourage medical students to advocate for a Socially Accountable and Transformative medical education.

○ Encourage meaningful students involvement in their medical schools.

Focus Areas

Better Medical Education

Medical students are the most important part of the educational process, so, they need to take the opportunity to lead the change of updating medical education and have a responsibility in improving doctors’ quality through the education process.

Social accountability is the core of improving and enhancing the vision and mission of education and it will produce a more competent health workforce to participate effectively in changing the healthcare system.

Skilled Medical Practitioners

Doctors graduate from medical schools with a significant lack of medical and soft skills that expose patients and fellows to bad influence. This focus area aims to empower medical students, doctors, and para-medical, with the needed skills they need to diagnose, save lives, communicate, and make the most suitable decisions they can as healthcare providers.

Projects

Evidence-based Medicine

Evidence-based medicine (EBM) is the process of systematically reviewing, appraising, and using clinical research findings to aid the delivery of optimum clinical care to patients. EBM is applied widely by healthcare entities and organizations because it offers the surest and most objective way to determine and maintain consistently high quality and safety standards in medical practice.

We aim in this project to contribute to decreasing mortality and morbidity rate caused by clinical malpractice, providing medical students in Egypt with the required knowledge and skills about EBM, and how to use them in their study now and after as future health providers.

Committee Officer

Salma Mohamed

LOME 23/24

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