SCORA XCHANGE

The SCORA X-Change is a unilateral exchange program for IFMSA Members focused on Sexual and Reproductive Health Rights.

The goal of this program is to provide participants with information about the social and health care situations of the host country, as well as encouraging intercultural education and collaboration.

Different SCORA X-Changes can be held annually, and any NMO from the IFMSA can apply to host an X-Change. Each year, many countries across the world organize a “SCORA X-change” program.

The ultimate goal behind it is to stimulate the formation of international student projects on SCORA topics, and to encourage research and education in SCORA’s field of work.

“SCORA X-Change” is a 3 – 4 week long unilateral exchange program for medical students, focused on sexuality, reproductive health and rights related issues, and provides opportunities to get informed about the medical services of the hosting country’s healthcare system.

MAIN TOPICS:
GENDER BASED VIOLENCE
MATERNAL HEALTH & ACCESS TO SAFE ABORTION
COMPREHENSIVE SEXUAL EDUCATION

An honor killing is the homicide of a member of a family, due to the perpetrators’ belief that the victim has brought shame or dishonor upon the family, or has violated the principles of a community, usually for reasons such as refusing to enter an arranged marriage, being in a relationship that is disapproved by their family, having a relationship outside of marriage, becoming the victim of rape, or dressing in ways which are deemed inappropriate. On August 9th,2017 IFMSA-Jo SCORA was honored to conduct a session facilitated by the amazing Ms. Rana Alhusseini on honor crimes in Jordan. Ms Rana is an award winning journalist and human rights activist who has been instrumental in bringing the issue of honour crimes against women to public attention and for securing changes to the law in Jordan to bring stronger penalties for crimes of these types. The incredible session helped us shed the light on the problem that Jordan has been facing for decades. The SCORA Xchange students participated in the fruitful discussions! Ms. Rana has discussed with the attendees the appropriate ways to fight back to reduce the number of cases of honor killings in Jordan and worldwide! Special thanks goes to ActionAid and Global Platform Jordan for their wonderful support!

Reproductive health is one of the most important topics that needs more attention in Jordan. On August 16th and 17th,2017 the Standing Committee on Reproductive Health in IFMSA-Jo with the cooperation of The Institute For Family Health of of Noor Al-Hussein Foundation facilitated an intensive workshop on reproductive health that tackled many topics, and focused the light on maternal health. Maternal health refers to the health of women during pregnancy, childbirth and the postpartum period. While motherhood is often a positive and fulfilling experience, for too many women it is associated with suffering, ill-health and even death. The workshop was super interactive, where participants and SCORA Xchange students received huge amounts of incredible and useful information. The trainers had extremely creative methods to deliver the information. After two very nice days of knowledge receiving, the participants received their certificates. We still have much to learn about reproductive health, IFH has a lot to offer, we are looking forward to having bigger collaboration with them!The Institute for Family Health (IFH) is a regional model providing comprehensive family healthcare services and training for professionals and caretakers in the fields of family healthcare,child protection, and rehabilitation for survivors of gender-based violence and torture. Huge thanks goes to Noor Al Hussein Foundation for this opportunity and a special thanks goes to Success lounge for their cooperation on the first day of the workshop and for ZINC for their incredible support on the second day of the workshop.

Reproductive surgery involves surgery in the field of reproductive medicine. Reproductive surgeons consist of gynecologists and urologists who specialize in reproductive surgery and are the experts in the conservative treatment of reproductive organs in both men and women. Reproductive surgery includes a wide range of operations designed for different purposes. On August 29th,2017 IFMSA-Jo SCORA was granted an opportunity for its SCORA Xchange students to attend multiple of surgeries that are reproductive health related. It was a great honor to meet and work with Dr.Andeera Abu Inaab who was beyond amazing in providing the information and scientific details to our students! Words cannot describe how grateful we are!