Goal 1:To provide for all medical students throughout the world an opportunity to participate in the IFMSA professional exchange program

Objectives

• To distribute IFMSA Professional Exchange posters and leaflets to all medical schools through the National Exchange Officers.
• To distribute the IFMSA SCOPE Newsletter-'MSI on Exchanges' to each medical faculty throughout the world.
• To disseminate information about the SCOPE via the internet and by updating the SCOPE homepage.
• To distribute the SCOPE e-newsletter monthly to all subscribers of the SCOPE mailing-list. ifmsa-scope@yahoogroups.com

Goal 2: To provide medical students with the opportunity to share experiences with colleagues worldwide.

Objectives

• To provide medical students with the opportunity to undergo a 4-week clerkship abroad throughout the year.
• This opportunity gives students new insight on the practice of medicine around the world.

Goal 3: To offer medical students a unique educational and cultural experience in addition to the regular medical curriculum.

Objectives

• The professional exchange program has long influenced the medical education of students throughout the Federation, by providing them with exposure to different health care systems.
• To understand the curricular requirements of a clinical exchange program.
• To understand the importance and benefit an exchange student may gain from a clinical or a pre-clinical clerkship taken abroad.
  

Goal 4: To increase the academic quality of both clinical and pre-clinical exchanges.

Objectives

• To set standards for improving the academic quality of exchanges.
• To assess the IFMSA Professional Exchange Program through evaluations forms for both students and supervisors.
• To increase international co-operation and improve both evaluation and feedback so as to continually improve the practices of countries participating in SCOPE.
  

Goal 5: To improve the IFMSA Professional exchange application procedure and logistics.

Objectives:

• By providing students with the chance to register online through an electronic-exchange system
• To train National Exchange Officers in a variety of internet and cyber media skills.
• By distributing SCOPE manuals to National Exchange Officers.
• To provide general information on how to reach decision makers and larger audiences when promoting SCOPE.