Structure of SCOME

In General
Internal Communication
Contact Details

Mailing lists

IN GENERAL

The SCOME Director is elected each year by the National Member Organisations at the IFMSA General Assembly in August. She/he co-ordinates the work that is done by National Officers, project co-ordinators and others. The SCOME Director reports to IFMSA and represents IFMSA and SCOME at meetings of external organizations dealing with Medical Education. The SCOME Director is also responsible for the SCOME meetings at biennial IFMSA General Assemblies.
 

The SCOME Director can appoint members of the committee as coordinators for special tasks, if he/she is not able to fulfil them by him/herself.

Each National Member Organization of IFMSA elects a National Officer on Medical Education (NOME). Her/his task is to co-ordinate and to encourage local or national activities in the respective country. The NOMEs are also responsible for communicating with and reporting to the SCOME Director.
NOMEs are recommended to attend the international IFMSA meetings in March and August respectively. At these meetings, they network with other NOMEs, exchange ideas and attain new knowledge and motivation to bring back home to the Local and National Committees.

The Local Officers on Medical Education (LOME) are in charge of local improvement in Medical Education and related activities at the different local medical faculties of a National Member Organisation. They are elected locally and are responsible for tackling local problems. They are advised to form local working groups, whose work they co-ordinate. The LOMEs shall communicate with and report to the NOME.

SCOME and IFMSA are in close contact to other non-governmental-organizations dealing with higher and medical education. IFMSA executive board appoints liaison officers, who maintain and co-ordinate contact with major organizations. The national and international communication between IFMSA and these organizations should go through these liaison officers.

INTERNAL COMMUNICATION

As mentioned before our best tool to learn and improve our skills, find ideas and learn about experiences is communication within each other. In many cases specific problems in different countries and medical schools are similar to each other. A solution also might have been found somewhere before. Our task is not mainly to invent new solutions and ideas, but quite often it is worth listening to other solutions and to employ them in the own setting. To guarantee this exchange of experiences and knowledge, we created several settings and strategies:

a) General Assemblies

During the general assemblies every Standing Committee has its own working committee meetings. The biggest part of the time we use to exchange experiences and learn from each other. This is a forum, where everyone gets a chance to present his problems and solutions. We further work in trainings, where a small group creates and prepares a training workshop. To make this process more effective NOMEs should present their work in written reports and/or posters.
Very important are also the informal meetings in between.

b) Regional meetings

To increase the communication between NOMEs and to integrate more LOMEs in the international work we encourage local committees to organize regional meetings. On those meetings the participants can exchange knowledge and information. Furthermore these meetings should be used as an opportunity to provide trainings in medical education and in general issues.

c) Mailing lists:

To enable communication between our March and August meetings we created two e-mailing-lists (see below).

d) Databases

Sometimes it is more effective to contact certain NOMEs and not the whole mailing list. To get the contact information we created a contact database for the whole IFMSA. To get information from this homepage you need a login and a password. The President of the National Member Organizations provides these passwords to their national officers. To get it, please contact your president and fill out the form.
 

The SCOME-Director needs these pieces of information, too. He/she uses this information to prepare certificates, recommendation letters, ...

e) SCOME-homepage

There you can find the recent projects and activities within SCOME and all contact information to the co-ordinators. Furthermore this homepage is a project itself: "home-book"
 

This project is a work-in-progress. The aim of the project is to collect and provide as much information as possible in the field of medical education. It will be an online handbook for all NOMEs and LOMEs. This handbook should provide background information in the different educational systems, results from research within this field, concrete suggestions for local and national improvement in medical schools, training material...

CONTACT DETAILS

Director on Medical Education

Project Coordinators

Mailing Lists

SCOME-Server:

ifmsa-scome@yahoogroups.com
Every student interested in Medical Education is asked to subscribe on this server.
To subscribe send a blank e-mail to: ifmsa-scome-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

NOME-Server:

This server is a restricted server. To become a member of this mailing-list, you should be NOME or a LOME interested in international work. If so, please contact the SCOME-Director; he will put you on this server.