Cajamarca: medical students will carry out internships in various countries | News

Eight students from the Faculty of Human Medicine of the National University of Cajamarca (UNC) will travel next year to various countries as part of the health promotion internship that is organized by the International Federation of Medical Student Associations (IFMSA, for its acronym in English).

The students are: Arturo Gallardo Llanos, Christian Muñoz Medina, Dámaris Ramírez Alva, Kateriny Regalado Rodríguez, Maite Martínez Flores, Mary Guarniz Vigo, Maura Núñez Tafur, and Nick Bautista Ramos, of the fourth, fifth and sixth year of the medical career that will travel to Brazil, Mexico, Portugal, Argentina and Colombia.

Rafael Quispe Zavaleta, local official of the permanent committee of professional exchanges of IFMSA-UNCsaid to the Andean Agency that the selected students manage the necessary documentation to travel from April of next year and each student will assume the cost of the internship for one month.

Students participated in a comprehensive academic selection by the Permanent Committee for Professional Exchanges of Peru (Scope Peru) and the International Federation of Medical Student Associations of Peru (Ifmsa Peru), who will carry out clinical rotations in the different departments of medical services for a period of one month in recognized health provider institutions in the countries involved.

Quispe stated that the International Federation of Medical Student Associations of the National University of Cajamarca, was created in 2017 at the initiative of a group of students from the Faculty of Human Medicine and this year the committee was activated to participate in international internships.-

He commented that the IFMSA is a non-governmental organization represented by associations of medical students and was created in 1951 in Copenhagen-Denmark, and initially made up of 7 European countries with two permanent committees: medical education and professional exchange, the latter is intended to promote cultural understanding and cooperation between medical students and health professionals, by facilitating international exchanges.

Currently, IFMSA is present in 129 countries represented by 140 national member organizations. In Peru the organization has 27 associations, and in the case of Cajamarca, the board of directors is committed to consolidating the organization and achieving in the future a fluid exchange of students that allows higher levels of academic knowledge so that they can apply them in their professional development.

Following the first call, Quispe indicated that many students have been making inquiries to participate in the next selection scheduled for January 2021 and students can access from the fourth year of the medical career.

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