SCOPE (The Standing Committee on Professional Exchange) is a full educational program offering clinical clerkships to medical students abroad. It is one of the 6 Standing Committees under IFMSA (The International Federation of Medical Students Associations).

Founded in 1951, it has grown into one of the largest student-run exchange programs in the world, with around 13,000 medical students (globally) participating every year from more than 100 countries.

Every year, SCOPE at the University of Nairobi, Kenyatta University and all accredited medical institutions by KMPDC and affiliated to Medical Students’ Association of Kenya (MSAKE) receives medical students from different universities abroad and hosts them for a period of one month as they do their electives in the hospital, in a department/specialty of their choice. Likewise, the Standing Committee also sends out Kenyan medical students abroad to do their clinical electives/ exchange program.

How can one join SCOPE?

Every academic year interested candidates submit their CVs and Motivation letters from which a LEO( Local Exchange Officer) for SCOPE UON and any other medical institution gets appointed. The LEO steers the organization which is under the umbrella body MSAKE with the help of committee members he/she appoints.

Some of the roles include and are not limited to:

1. Organize local and international professional exchanges within the university of Nairobi.

2. ⁠Raise awareness about local and international professional exchange opportunities within our university.

3. ⁠Ensure sustainability of the Association’s professional exchange activities within our university.

4. ⁠Serve as a point of contact in communications on behalf of the organization’s university leadership and the association's liaison body to the IFMSA standing committee on professional exchange and the IFMSA standing committee on Research exchange.

5. ⁠Help in organizing of local, national and regional programs.

6. ⁠Provide administrative work within our university and administrative assistance for special projects and initiatives as directed by the senior officials and staff within the organization and liaison body to IFMSA and also organize and coordinate the organization’s activities undertaken within the university in collaboration with other organizations and institutions, not limited to alumni, external stakeholders and sponsors.

7. ⁠Manage and update the organizations’ online social and workspace and ensure everyone has access to up to date information.

8. ⁠Training and capacity building initiatives.