What a Waste! is a collaborative project initiated by the Community Development Society and SCORP CIMSA UGM to address waste management issues and enhance the community’s knowledge of sustainable waste practices in the Margodadi sub-district. Launched in December 2023, the project entered its second intervention on 29th September 2024. With this event, we hope to not only impart valuable knowledge but also to empower the community to create environmentally friendly products, fostering long-term sustainability and resilience in waste management practices.

What a Waste! is a collaborative project initiated by the Community Development Society and SCORP CIMSA UGM to address waste management issues and enhance the community’s knowledge of sustainable waste practices in the Margodadi sub-district. Launched in December 2023, the project entered its second intervention on 29th September 2024. With this event, we hope to not only impart valuable knowledge but also to empower the community to create environmentally friendly products, fostering long-term sustainability and resilience in waste management practices.

IFMSA Exchange is an exchange program for medical students with the aim to empower medical students by developing their skills and critical thinking, creating cultural understanding, and professional cooperation. As exchange facilitators, one of the work areas of SCORE and SCOPE CIMSA is exchange promotion. Therefore, for this year, SCORE and SCOPE CIMSA UGM collaborated […]

Evidence-Based Exchange: Why You Should and Why It’s Worth It Iqbal Wahyu Dwiaji Local Coordinator CIMSA UGM 2017—2018 and Former Outgoing Medical student exchange program is a full educational program offering clerkships to medical students abroad. In this program, medical students from various parts of the world travel to another country to observe and join […]

SCOPE & SCORE are exchange facilitators that allow all Indonesian medical students to learn about global health through intercultural methods. Every year, both standing committees send over 200 medical students on a month-long clinical or research exchange to other medical schools across the world. Both SCOPE and SCORE have to prepare outgoing students before their […]

HIV/AIDS has been one of the most destructive global epidemic-causing diseases in the world. At the end of 2019, UNAIDS stated that Indonesia is the 3rd country with the most HIV cases in the Asia Pacific. According to UNAIDS, some people with HIV experience social discrimination and rejection regarding their sexual and reproductive health. In […]

Diseases have no boundaries without a single care in the world as to which nation they will infect, they simply just infect. Along with the pandemic progression, we have to think about the global health aspect of it and how we as a society can help in this situation. With the pandemic being a prime […]

GLOBETROTTER is one of CIMSA’s activities that has been an annual event. This event exists as a form of collaboration involving two CIMSA standing committees, SCOPE, and SCORE. GLOBETROTTER has the main goal: to educate medical students in Indonesia about exchange opportunities and facilitate them to get internal exposure through IFMSA exchange programs.   Like […]

Before the COVID-19 pandemic, the overall number of students studying abroad consistently increased in the past decade. In 2019, the number reached 710,000, increasing by 8.3 percent to the 2018 figure (New Oriental, 2020). Also, if there was no pandemic, the number of 2020 would reach a new high according to the trend, but it […]