About SCOPE

SCOPE is the Standing Committee on Proffesional Exchange within the International Federation of Medical Students' Association (IFMSA).

SCOPE is the largest committee within IFMSA. More than 6000 students worldwide participate in our programme each year.

(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.

Nowadays 78 countries are involved in IFMSA SCOPE. In all these countries, there are 1003 Medical schools and 676 of them have IFMSA Local Committee.

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.

The Professional Exchange is defined and regulated in the Standing Orders of SCOPE. A professional means an exchange of a medical student who undergo a medical practice in a hospital abroad. This practice, named clerkship, is purely educational for the student and he/she will not receive a salary for it.

You are welcome for SCOPE to Russia any time!