SCOPE/SCORE

INFORMATIVE SESSION

What is SCOPE/SCORE?

ASMO in collaboration with IFMSA (InternationalFederation of Medical Students Associations) andFASMR (Federation of Medical Students Associationsfrom Romania) organizes internationals medicalinternships during summer through the SCOPE/SCOREdepartments.

STANDING COMITEE ON PROFESSIONAL EXCHANGE represents the department of the clinical internships and it is coordinated by the LEO (Local Exchange Officer).

STANDING COMITEE ON RESEARCH EXCHANGE represents the department of the research internships and it is coordinated by the LORE (LOCAL Research Exchange Officer).

THE SCOPE/SCOREINTERNSHIPS

• These internships are distributed to students by LEO and LORE officers, after a contest where can participate students from first to sixth year, General Medicine, Romanian andEnglish section.

• The internship period is 4 weeks in the following months: July, August or September.

• The student will receive one meal per day, for five days per week during the internship.

• These internships are recognized as summer practice by the Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy from Oradea.

WHY I LOVE SCOPE/SCORE

The benefits of the SCOPE/SCORE internships:

❖ medical practice experience in a medical clinic or a research laboratory from abroad

❖ knowledge of a new medical system from abroad

❖ receiving a certificate certifyingthe internship

❖ visiting a new country for one month

❖ making new friends from all continents

SCOPE -available internships

• Category I • France• Canada (Quebec)• Italy (September)

• Category II A • Egypt • Tunisia• Tunisia

• Category II B• Croatia (unilateral)• Russia (beside Sankt Petersburg and Moscow)• Malta (August)

• Categoriy III• Indonesia• Brazil (IFMSA)• Ghana

France

Canada(Quebec)

Italy(September)

Egypt

Tunisia

Croatia

Russia

Malta

Indonesia

Brazil

Ghana

SCORE-available internships

• Category I • South Korea

• Category II A • Turkey

• Egypt

• Egypt

• Category II B• Greece

• Slovenia (September)

• Russia

• Category III • India

• Brazil (IFMSA)

South Korea

Turkey

Egypt

Greece

Slovenia

Russia

India

Brazil

Regulations

I. The contest: 1. The internships distribution period

2. Calculation of the score

II. Choosing the internship

III. Taxes

IV. Quitting the internship

I. The contest period

1. The internships distribution period:

Submission will take place over a period of five days. After this period,we will announce the results, following 2 days of legal contest. Afterthose 2 days we will distribute the internships during a meeting with everyone who submitted their file. The internships will be distributed in a descending order of the scores.

• After choosing the country, within 7 days, the student must sign thecontract and pay the guarantee (100 lei) and the first part of theinternship costs.

• The Application Form should be sent until 16 December.

• If some of the internships will not be distribute , we are going toorganize a new distribution session.

2. Calculation of the score

• final grade of the previous university year

• volunteer activity from the previous year

• scientific activity from the previous year

• previous participation in an SCOPE or SCORE internship

The total maximum score is 100 points. The student must have: certificate of English or other language requested by the hosting country.

• 40% will represent the school final grade from the previous year(maximum 40 points). (0,4 x final grade)

• In the case of first year students we will consider the admission grade.

30% will represent the volunteering activity

1. From FASMR - ASMO (max 20 pt)

2. Outside of FASMR (from a medical association which is not a member of FASMR) (max 10pt)

From FASMR

• member of BEX + LEO, LORE, NEO, NORE, NEOass, NOREass – 10pt• national officer in FASMR (except for NEO/NORE + NEO/NOREass) – 9pt• department coordinators (except for LEO/LORE) – 8pt• LEO/LOREass – 7,5 pt• contact person – 5pt • SCOPE SCORE volunteers during the year or summer (min 3 activities) –

3pt• coordinator in a national FASMR project – 6pt• coordinator in a project from ASMO – 5pt• volunteer in ASMO – 3pt

Outside of FASMR

• a) volunteering at SMURD/UPU: we are requiring a certificate• Volunteer UPU – 4pt• Volunteer Ambulance/SMURD – 6pt• b) Volunteering at SSCR• Trainer – 3 pt• Observer – 2 pt• Participant – 1 pt• c) Volunteering at the Red Cross – 2ptWe consider a maximum of 3 activities in each category. If there will be more than 3 activities, we will consider the ones with more points.

20% will represent the scientific activity , maximum 20 points:

a) active participation at a scientific session as author:

From Romania: *Prize l – 9.5 pt

• * Prize II – 9 pt

• *Prize III – 8.5 pt

• *Prize IV or special prize – 8 pt

• *Without prize – 6.5 pt

Abroad: *Prize I – 10 pt

• *Prize II – 9.5 pt

• *Prize III – 9 pt

• *Prize IV or special prize – 8.5 pt

• *Without prize – 7,5pt

b) active participation at a scientific session as co-authorFrom Romania: *Prize I – 8.5 pt*Prize II – 8.5 pt*Prize III – 8 pt*Prize IV or special prize – 7.5 pt*Without prize – 6 ptAbroad: *Prize I – 9 pt*Prize II – 8.5 pt*Prize III – 8 pt*Prize IV or special prize – 7.5 pt*Without prize – 6.5pt

c) publication of a scientific article in a medical magazine (copy of the article):

Internationally recognized

• *as author – 10pt

• *as co-author – 10pt

Nationally recognized

• *as author – 8pt

• *as co-author – 7,5pt

Locally recognized

• *as author – 6pt

• *as co-author – 5pt

d) member in a research project – 6 pt(proof signed and stamped)e) publication of medical books(as author/co-author) – 10 pt

f) coordinator of scientific circle(certificate from tutor) – 4 ptg) attending at a medical summer school or camp – 3pth) passive participation in a scientific congress or workshop – 2pt;

• Co-author means no more than the following 3 people (after the author) who contributed in the writing of the paper (co-author1, co-author2, co-author3).

• We will score only the student's participation in maximum 2 workshops and 3 congresses.

• Where participation diploma at a Congress or a scientific communication does not specify the status of active or passive student, and there is no proof of his status, the student will be considered a passive participant.

• If there are multiple activities of the same category, first taken into account are the activities with the highest score.

First year students will be scoredbased on the voluntary workdone until the moment ofsubmissioning the file.

10% will represent (maximum 10pt):

• 10 pt for the students who havn't participated in a internship before

• 5 pt for the students who participated in one internship before

• 0 pt for the students who participated at least in 2 internships before

• In the case of equal scores, the student who has never participated in an internship before will be favored.

• If both candidates have the same status, the differentiation criteria will be the final grade of the previous university year.

II. Choosing the internship

• The internship will be chosen during a meeting after the legal contestperiod.

• The internships will be distributed in order of decreasing scores.

• The students should be informed of the Exchange Conditions(EC) of the countries in which they are interested in (example: there are countries that accept only students from certain years with a certain level of knowledge etc).

• SCOPE conditions :

➢http://exchange.ifmsa.org/exchange/scope/explore/exchange-conditions

• SCORE conditions

➢http://exchange.ifmsa.org/exchange/score/explore/exchange-conditions

Notes: the internships which will not be distributed will be announced on the Facebook group and the local officers will contact the students (in descending order by scores) who failed to catch an internship. If after this process some countries willstill remain undistributed, a new selection will be organized. The period will be announced by the local officers.

III. TAXES

• For the contest submission, the students will pay a fee of 10 lei.

• The price of the internship is determined by the category that the student will choose:

➢ Countries from the Category I: 230 Euro

➢ Countries from the Category II a: 160 Euro

➢ Countries from the Category II b: 180 Euro

➢ Countries from the Category III: 110 Euro

• The fee can be paid full or in two installments. The first installment and the guarantee will be paid in the next 7 days after receiving the internship.

The guarantee of 100 lei will be paid together with the first instalment. It will be refunded if the student respect the following conditions:

1. presents the official IFMSA certificate signed and stamped;

2. complete the Evaluation Form (EF) for the hosting country;

3.presents the Handbook or Logbook completed;

4. will be a contact person for a week/3 activities in the next season;

5.have not created damage and respected the rules imposed by the local Committee.

IV. Quitting the internship

The refund of the taxes:

- 100% - before signing the contract/receiving late Card of Acceptance for at least 10 days

- 50% - after signing the contract

- 25% -in case of cancellation in less than one month before the deadline for receiving the CA

- 0% -for cancellation after receiving the CA

The student will receive back 100% of the taxes in case of: medical conditions (based on medical certificates), some cases of death in the family (1st degree relatives), unfavourable socio-economic conditions in that country (war, natural disasters).

(a) in the case of dropping the internship, the student must send a cancellation request to the Local Officers as soon as possible.

(b) Local Officers reserves the right not to refund the student’s internship fee if a request for the cancellation of the internship was not sent.

(c) the Internship will not be cancelled without a written request and signed by the student. In this case, the fee will not be returned to the student.

• The deadline for receiving the CA is with 8 weeks before the start of the internship. Exceptions: health problems, political conditions and unfavourable socio-economic status in that country (war, natural disasters).

• The deadline for sending the AF is one month from the time of receiving your internship.(16 December)

• In case of cancellation the internship, ASMO will not return the student expenses (flight tickets, medical insurance, visa application, etc.).

What should contain the file?

1.Envelope file (with the full name and year of study);

2.Note from secretary with final average of last year;

3.Copy of the language certificate (ex: Bacalaureat, Cambridge, IELTS);

4.A statement from the President of A.S.M.O or from the coordinator of department which will confirm the position of the volunteer in A.S.M.O

5. Copy of diplomas, Projects from A.S.M.O;

6. Any activity in UPU, SMURD, Ambulance, etc requires volunteering contract-note;

7. Research activities-copy of diploma for participation at congresses, workshops, trainings.

8.Copy of the articles published in specialized magazines

9. Certificate from the tutor in case of participation in research work;

10. On a note you should specify:

• if the student was in a SCOPE/SCORE internship before;

• 2 more internship options in case of the redistribution

The deadline for submission 30.10 – 03.11

Schedule:

Tuesday: 11 am- 5 pm

Wednesday : 11 am- 6 pm

Thursday: 10 am- 4 pm

Friday: 9 am-11 am, 12 am-3 pm, 5 pm-7 pm

Saturday: 11 am- 1 pm => closing of the contest

The deadline for submission 30.10 – 03.11

!!! Those who are with TransMed/Erasmus/not able to arrive at the ASMO office during the period for the submission, can send the files (pictures clear/scan after diploma) to the following email address and the fee for submitting will be paid at the distribuion meeting . Otherwise, the student will lose any right to participate in another SCOPE/SCORE internship for the next two seasons.

leoasmo4@gmail.com

See you at the contest!