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Center for Indonesian Medical Students’ Activities, CIMSA, is an independent, inclusive, nasionalist, non-profit and non-party organization. CIMSA is an individual based organizatition with members consisted of medical students from many universities in Indonesia.

Established in 2001, and has grown up from 6 to 19 lo-cals with approximately 2500 members. CIMSA aims at providing Indonesian medical students’ activities lodge to empower and express their idealism, thus medical stu-dents will have the same opportunities to get involved in health as early as possible and contribute to the develop-ment of this country.

Our activities are applied not only in the local and nation-al, but also in the international level. This can be achieved because since its establisment CIMSA has gained trust from the international world to become the full member of IFMSA (International Federation of Medical Students’ Association); the largest atudents’ organizatition in the world with approximately 100 contries as its members represnting more than one million medical students worldwide.

CIMSA’s field of work covers 6 aspects represented in the form of Standing Commitee (SCO);1. SCOME, on Medical Education, is a forum for medical studentswho have special interest in the improvement of medical education

2. SCOPE, on Professional Exchange, fasilitates all medi-cal students to feel the atmosphere and culture in foreign country while experiencing the clinical study

3. SCOPH, on Public Health, focuses on the importance of public health issues in medical education or community

4. SCORA, on Reproductive Health Including AIDS, aims at raising the awareness on reproductive helath including sex education, gender equality, etc.

5. SCORE, on Researh Exchang, gives a chance to all medi-cal students to partake in medical research in foreign country

6. SCORP, on Human Rights and Peac, is related to issues on human right and peace, including poblems faced by the refugees.

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Cimsa Nasional

Dear friends,

Center for Indonesian Medical Students’ Activi-ties (CIMSA) was established in 2001. CIMSA represents more than 3500 medical students in Indonesia. We have 6 Standing Committees, they are Standing Committee on Professional Exchange (SCOPE), Standing Committee on Research Exchange (SCORE), Standing Committee on Medical Education (SCOME), Standing Committee on Reproductive Health Including AIDS (SCORA), Stand-ing Committee on Public Health (SCOPH), and Standing Committee on Human Right and Peace (SCORP). CIMSA is based on it’s activities and projects. In 10 years, lots of projects and activities has been made by CIMSA to develop the health state of Indonesia. We also have a motto, which is “be Active with CIMSA!”. We believe that if we really want to make a better change, we can’t just talk and stand still. But we have to be the agent of change and make an action. ‘You cannot plough a field by turning it over in your mind’. Aorta is one of our media of communication to the internal and also external of CIMSA. Its function is for sharing and publicating our projects and activities. We hope Aorta can be one of the inspirational media for all medical students as its contents are excellent.

Best regards,

Niko KristiantoPresident of CIMSA 2011-2012

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NEWS from

OFFICIAL team1 New release, CIMSA ID CARD for Alumni !

It’s been a while since CIMSA launch its ID Card 2 years ago in order to sort out our member da-tabase, and became one of the tools to cooperate with externals partner, and so on. This time, we’re making another improvement by releasing ID Card for Alumni. Through these ID Card we would like to give an appreciation to our alumni who have been giving CIMSA their contribution and become a part of CIMSA’s Family, so all alumni could get the same privilege by using ID Card like the other CIMSA’s member . And it’s really easy to get an ID Card for Alumni, first you need to be a former member of CIMSA and has graduated as Medical Doctor for more than 6 months, then you’ll be able to order the ID Card by contacting Alumni Director at alumni@cimsa.or.id. Then you`ll get the id card that will be valid for a life time long. And Be ACTIVE with CIMSA!

- From: Hafizha Herman (Fundraising and Merchandise Director) and Ildzamar Haifa (Alumni Director)

2 Training New Trainer (TNT) CIMSATraining New Trainers (TNT) is one of the annual work program from HRDD CIMSA , and is also one of the

important events of CIMSA. Why is it referred to as one of the important events from CIMSA? Because through this TNT, CIMSA produce new backbones which will enhance the human resources of CIMSA’s member, par-

ticularly through training. The first TNT was held a year ago in the pre October Meeting - Yogyakarta. And for this year TNT was held on 11-13 october 2011 in Lembang, Bandung. TNT will be held with a total quota of 16

participants from all locals of CIMSA local, 3 supervisors and CIMSA trainers, who are the alumni of TNT 1. And especially for this years, registration of TNT was opened to other IFMSA NMOs. And I hope TNT 2011 can run

well and succesful, so that later can produce the best backbones and a good trainers for CIMSA. BRAVO TNT ! Keep Rocking ,Keep Training !

- From: Winda Novellia (Human Resources and Development Director)

3 CIMSA in Indonesian Students’ Movement for Tobacco Control CIMSA, with other 8 health-related organizations (PAMI, ISMKI, ISMAFARSI, ILMAGI, ISMKMI, JMKI, PSMKGI, ILMIKI), have established Indonesian Students’ Movement for Tobacco Control in August 2011. It’s a student’s alliance, under Indonesia Tobacco Control Network (ITCN), which concern is in pressing the government to give better protections of Indonesians, from Tobacco’s product, especially cigarettes. It stands as the form of appre-hension from students about the influence of tobacco in Indonesia that has been increasing each year.Facilitated by National Commission for Child Protection, the representation of each organization had gathered and received capacity building training on August 13-14th, 2011 to improve their knowledge of tobacco control and to draw up collective agreement about the basic system of Indonesian Students’ Movement for Tobacco Control. Soon, it will declare its policy statement against smoking.

- From: Shela Putri Sundawa (Campaign, Marketing, and Advocacy Director) and Bethari K. Abianti (MCA team)

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Training & Meeting about NCDs

Editorial

People may easily get bored with something constant and we don’t want to get you bored with this magazine so we try to remake Aorta more colorful and attractive. Now we are back with 30 pages including new sec-tions; News from Officials and Exchange Stories. In accordance with the theme of October Meeting 2011 in Bandung, we provide some health issue articles related to blindness. Have you ever imagine how can you live and do many activities without sight? You might think it’s very frustrating, but not for our friends from Pertuni (Persatuan Tunanetra Indonesia, in English: Indonesian Blind Union), we made an interview with them and they are re-ally inspiring! Cataract causes approximately 48% of all blindness and it can be eas-ily treated by surgery. We give you a brief explanation about this surgery in this edition. Don’t forget to read some stories from our friends about their lo-cal activities because their stories probably inspire you to make your local programs more creative! Exchange program is a great opportunity to get an in-credible learning experiences and meet people who have different cultures. How does it feels? Check out some stories from our friends who have joined IFMSA exchange program. Well, now it’s time for you to come in. Enjoy !

Best regards,

Sekar LarasEditor in Chief & Creative Director

Editorial Team

Weda Kusuma Febriana Intan Annissa KallistaHafif Kusasi

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About CIMSA

Training & Meeting about NCDs

Contributors

Letter from President

Editorial

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Joint Conference

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August Meeting

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How is it Like to be Blind?

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Cataract Surgery

Interview with Pertuni

Local Stories

Exchange Stories 27

May Meeting

MEETING REPORTS

HEALTH ISSUE

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ay meeting is one of the two big meetings CIMSA annually hold. It may as well be said as the most important one. Why? Because in this event we will present to oth-ers about what CIMSA have done the whole year. There are sev-eral elections of the new official team in May Meeting. This year May Meeting was held in Sema-rang, a city known as ‘Little Dutch Van de Java’, by Local of Islamic Sultan Agung University (or UNIS-SULA for short) as the guest house.

In about four days starting from Thursday May 26 up to Sunday May 30 the participants attended this ‘Emergency Alert’ themed meet-ing which was not like any other May Meeting. How can it be so? Because this year May Meeting was held when CIMSA had its 10th year birthday celebration! This year the number of participants also broke the record of last year may meet-ing by reaching the number 329participants! Moreover, there were new events that had never been ar-ranged in other May Meetings. Cu-rious? Here’s the summary of what CIMSAers do in May meeting this year:

DayThe first day began with enthusi-asm for all CIMSAers, either the OC or the participants themselves. Arrived at that morning by many kinds of transportations, the par-ticipants were directly led to the

registration at 9 AM. Even though they were not yet completed, the passion to meet their ‘siblings’ was obviously felt. New comer’s session was the first agenda that morn-ing. Here the participants were introduced to all of the OC, their divisions, and how to reach them.

The next agendas after this were SCO-session and soft skill training.In the evening, the participants were invited to prepare themselves for the welcoming party, an agenda which according to many participants was‘simple but undoubtedly touch-ing’. Opened by the third vice of Dean of UNISSULA Medical Faculty dr. Pujiati Abbas, Sp.A and the vice of UNISSULA rector dr. Muktasim-billah, Sp.S, the welcoming party was followed by the performance of Medivo (Medical Voice), a choir group of medical students from Medical Faculty of UNISSULA, who sang several songs beautifully.

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MAY MEETING - SEMARANG, 2011

To have people like genuine brothers and sisters out there but seldom or never even meet one another… hmmmm… how does it feel? To suddenly meet (again) or just being introduced to them in one place and event… Wouldn’t it feel awkward? Ask it to CIMSAers around Indonesia who have just at-tended Semarang May Meeting 2011 and they will tell you exactly how it feels!

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The song that received most claps was ‘Suwe Ora Jamu’ which lyr-ic was slightly modified that re-lated to CIMSA and May meet-ing, that could draw participants’ attention more than anything.This welcoming party was closed by dinner which was followed di-rectly by the participants and OC departures to Bandungan, a very nice highland area located near Un-garan, the place where most May Meeting 2011 activities took place. The first session of Plenary Ses-sion was held directly afterwards.

2nd Day

The WOCO I, the first session about emergency alert training, was the first major program scheduled on that morning after Plenary Session. In this program the participants were given lectures about the basic knowledge of how one could get into emergency situation and what we need to do about it. These lectures were definitely important for there would be the real practice about emergency alert on the next day.

Having received such long lectures might get everyone bored. This as-sumption, might be the reason why the games were held on SCO-ses-sion at the afternoon. The partici-pants looked obviously enthusiastic

3rd DayThe third day might as well be said

as the most important and fascinating one. Why? Because not only the agendas were all big and excit-ing, but there were some special programs which had never been held anytime before! In WOCO II, the participants were divided into three major classes that had big roles in emergency alert, which were: Cardiac Pulmonary Resuscita-tion, Triages, and Transportations.

The second big program that day was Project Fair! And the most special agenda held in this May Meeting, the celebration of CIMSA’s age that had been a decade, was held in the afternoon till evening. In this farewell party, there were several

guests of honor in CIMSA came in to join others in celebration. All CIMSAers, either participants or OC, gathered in the field and made wishes for CIMSA’s goodness years ahead. After that, each SCO were asked to perform one performance before others on the

stage. The SCO that drawn most attention was SCORA, which had their members jump excitedly on stage and lift up the atmosphere around!

In the end session of Farewell Party was the beautiful and un-forgettable firework show shot up high on the dark beautiful sky.

4th DayThe last program held in this big meeting was Social Program, a city-tour in Semarang showing the par-ticipants about Semarang cultures and favorite places. ‘Lawang Sewu’ and ‘Klenteng Sam Po Kong were chosen for this exciting visit. ‘La-wang Sewu’ was a historical build-ing that used to be Nederlands-Indische Spoorweg Maatschappij (or NIS for short) or Dutch East Indian Railway Company whereas ‘Klenteng Sam Po Kong’ was a very meaningful place for both Semarang Moslems and Kong Hu Cu adher-ents, for this was a place visited by .

Despite the fact that May Meeting was officially closed this time (ex-cept for Plenary Session which still had several unfinished agendas to be discussed), all participants felt extremely content to have passed all stages in May meeting this year. They did meet their new siblings, rejoined with high school friends that had never seen one another in a long time, and got many les-sons as future doctors and skillful college students of Medicine who would hopefully got home as dif-ferent and more mature young people that could eventually bring light to CIMSA and Indonesia.

“The second big pro-gram that day was Project Fair! And the most spe-cial agenda held in this May Meeting was the cel-ebration of CIMSA’s age that had been a decade”

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Joint Conference, Hong Kong

by: Brigitta Melasti

2011

Hi CIMSAers !!! I’m Brigtta Melasti, one of representative delegates from SCOPH – CIMSA for Joint Conference 2011. I want to share my experience about what we did at Joint Conference 2011. Joint Conference 2011 was an event like Asia Pacific Regional Meeting IFMSA, the differ-ence is this year we held it with AMSA International, so it’s called Joint Conference 2011 which was held in Hong Kong on 25th June till 2nd July 2011.

• Welcoming Dinner was held for all partici-pants. On this Welcoming Dinner,there were some speeches from Chairperson of Joint Conference (Kevin Yu),Regional Coordinator of IFMSA Asia Pacific (Anneliese Willems) and President of AMSA Interna-tional (Aditya Kumar). And there were performances from the OC and IFMSA’s Trainers.• Opening Ceremony, the event to officialy openthe Conference. Presented by Heads of Chinese Hong Kong University, representative of Hong Kong’s Ministry of Tourism, and all the Spreakers and Lec-turers that would be participated in the Conference. Consist of Welcoming Speeches and Barongsai.• Keynote Lecture, here all the delegates re-ceived a lecture about this year’s Conference “Evidenced based Traditional Complementary Alterna

tive Medicine in modern practical practice”. The speakers of this lecture is Vivian Taam Wong, J.P., from University of Hong Kong and Profesor Jin Ling Tang from Chinese University of Hong Kong. • UN MDG’s Session, this session starts with an explanation about MDGs from UN (Dr. Sandro Cal-vani and Jacylyn Shi). After the explanation lecture, there was a discussion about MDGs • Understanding IFMSA and AMSA Interna-tional, because this time the conference is held by 2 International Federations of Medial Student, AMSA and IFMSA, there was a special session for all the del-egates, which was purposed to understand each of these 2 organizations. The IFMSA was represented by RC of Asia-Pacific, Anneliese Willems ad AMSA was represented by Vice President of AMSA Interna-tional, Michael Pineda.

The Main Event on Joint Conference 2011 are Welcoming Dinner, Opening Ceremony, Keynote Lecture, UN MDG’s Session, Understanding IFMSA,AMSA International and IFMSA booth, Standing Committee Session, Community Service, Video-Poster-Paper Competition for AMSA International members, International Food and Drinking Party, Academic Workshop, Training Workshop, Cultural Bazaar, Closing Ceremony Cultural Night, dan Hong Kong Sightseeing.

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• AMSA International and IF-MSA Booth, on this event delegates from IFMSA promoted their activi-ties that have been held and done on each country,using the media such as posters,souvenirs,pins and stick-ers. For AMSA International delegates they showed their own culture,for example,traditional clothes,language and arts.• Standing Committee Session, as a representative from SCOPH, I joined the SCOPH session. On SCOPH session there was a lecture from ex-ternal speaker,dr. Craige Hassed from Monash University,Australia about Health Promotion. 2 times Joint Ses-sion with SCORP,the first we had a chance to learn about BLS and Tri-age with dr.Abraham from Hong Kong and the second we had a lecture and explanation about So-cial Determinants of Health given by Renzo Guinto,IFMSA Trainer. Be-side that,there was an Introduction to SCOPH and SWG about Health Issue.• Community Service, in this event, delegates went directly to the society, elder people for the specific, talking about fall incidence in elderly. The delegates were divided into 2 big groups. First group had a chance to do a home visit to the elder people and do the anamnesis about Falling evidence on elder people, do some exercises about balance and do an inspection whether the house of elder people had risks for Falling or not. For the Second group here delegates had to show a kind of drama. The aim was to give all the informations about falling preven-tion in elderly.• Video-Poster-Video Com-petition for AMSA International member. On this event,selected AMSA International member pre-sented their videos and papers.

• International Food and Drink Party. On this event all the delegates from each country served their traditional and national food and drink• Academic Workshop. On this workshop delegates divided to 2 groups. First group went to the School of Chinese Medicine Hong Kong Univer-sity and Second group went to Medical Development Museum.• Training Workshop. On this ses-sion there were 8 training sessions : Dr. Ama, Super Awesome Leadership Training 101, Connecting with others, Yes YOU Can! How to SAY it like Obama, How to deal with a conflict, I Had a

!*@$% Day, Linkup to Yes, Think Global – How to Learn in a Global Intercultural Environment. Each of the delegates had to choose one from above.• Cultural Bazaar, on this event delegates could choose 4 from 7 cul-tures of Hong Kong. We watch,and

learn about it. There were foods,Chinese painting,Cal l igraphy,Clot,Paper Cutting,Kung Fu and Games.• Closing Ceremony. It all ended here. This was the closing for this con-ference. RC of Asia-Pacific and President of AMSA International gave a speech here, and announcement of the winner of Video-paper-poster competition.• Cultural Night, on this event all the countries showed their cultures, like songs,dance and etc. From Indone-sia, we performed Saman Dance,Kecak Dance and etc and combined those on one drama show. • Hong Kong Sightseeing. Dele-gates were divided into 30 groups and taken all around Hong Kong.

That’s all about Joint Conference 2011 Hong Kong. I hope this ar-ticle would be useful and take us to be more active in CIMSA.

“Integrative Medicine - Evidence-Based Traditional, Complementary & Alternative

Medicine in Modern Medical Practice”

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General Assembly DENMARK

2011

Every year, International Federation of Medical Students Association (IFMSA) conducts two international meetings in March and August, where all National Members Organization (NMO) concentrate to share their ideas related to health. After the March Meeting (MM) 2011 in Indonesia, now, Denmark has chance to be host of IFMSA General As-sembly August Meeting (AM) for several times. For your information, Denmark is one of the most countries arranging this biggest medical meeting in the world. Attended by over 700 medical students from around 70 countries, this AM was held on August 1st – 7th 2011 in Copenhagen, Denmark with theme “Health and the Future”.

August Meeting

In this AM, Indonesia sent 15 delegates con-sisting of 12 delegates from Centre of Indone-sia Medical Students’ Activities (CIMSA) and 3 delegates from Indonesian Medical Students’ Association (ISMKI). They are Niko Kristianto as head of delegation, Mega Iriani Putri, Lid-wina Annisa, Marsha Bianti, Hafizha Herman, Nia Amerina, Raymond Surya, Arky Kurniati, Gisela Haza, Rifki Bachtiar, Nidia, Fatia Nur, Parama Putri, Syadza Fadillah, and Riri Azizah.

This year, there are 8 workshops in pre GA in-cluded president workshop. The workshops are Health 2.0, Training Old Trainers in Ad-vocacy (TOTA), Exchange, SCOME – Chang-

ing Health Care through Medical Education, Think Global, International President Educa-tion Training (IPET), Training of New Human Rights Trainers (TNHRT). Unfortunately, no one from Indonesia participated in this pre GA.

Not much different from previous meeting, AM was started by opening ceremony. However, this AM became so special because the 1st presi-dent of IFMSA coming from Denmark namely dr Erik Horst, was willing to deliver opening speech to all delegates. During the six day long events, delegates do almost same activities ev-ery day. Started by SCO sessions in the morning, where we can share about our knowledge and

by: Raymond Surya

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ideas here, then NMO hours, Regional Meeting, Theme Events, Project Fair, Training, Project Presentations, Contract Fair, and closed by plenary in every night. Seeing that the theme “Health and the Future”, the theme events happen to be interesting. There are several theme events such as Limited Resources when Fighting Dis-eases, Access to Essential Med-icines, The Perfect Man, Fight-ing Malaria with Simple Ideas, and Nano Medicine. Mean-while, there were several new training sessions making people pay attention to join it namely how to be your patient’s favor-ite doctor, managing for suc-cess with emphasis on getting your ideal job, and advocacy.

In National Food and Drinks Party (NFD), In-donesia served keripik pedas “Maicih”, mie goreng, and also wedang jahe. This event was oc-curred magnificently where every delegate could try food from oth-er countries. Unluckily, in this GA, Indonesia did not participate in cultur-al night show due to lim-ited performance which could demonstrate there. One of important news was that there is a new president IFMSA whom Christopher Pleyer from Austria was inaugurat-ed in this GA although he has been elected in March Meeting. Apart from that, Asia Pacific region got one new NMO that was China where through plenary, China obtained full member

NMO from IFMSA. In last day, there was anniversary ceremo-ny of 60th IFMSA marked by cutting the cake of IFMSA words and taking photos together.

Overall, the 60th IFMSA General Assembly August Meeting Co-penhagen Denmark was a great success. All delegates, espe-cially from Indonesia, showed their passionate attending ev-ery session, made wonderful relation with other countries, and gathered amazing experi-ences. Now, we are back to In-donesia and all of us miss this GA, but we are ready to share what we have learnt to all!

“Danish committees successfully fulfilled

their promises to be truly green in pre GA and GA. As proofs, Cabinn Metro

hotels, as an accommo-dation for delegates, has

been awarded with the Green Key and the Swan Label, great indoor envi-

ronment without air con-ditioning, recycled paper,

green transportation, and no water dispensers so that we should drink water straight from the

tab, They are remarkable, right?”

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NCDs Non-communicable diseases

Non-communicable disease are diseases of long duration which are not transmissible or caused by injury. Non-communicable diseases are go-ing importance worldwide as described by Ban Ki- Moon, United Nations Secretary General, they represent a “public health emergency in slow mo-tion”. Cardiovascular disease, cancer, chronic lung diseases and diabetes are the four main type of NCDs. Do you know that NCDs are responsible for 63% of all deaths worldwide (36 million out 57 million global deaths)? It’s a serious health problem but actually it’s largely preventable. Tobacco, unhealthy diets, inactive lifestyles, and alcohol abuse are the main risk fac-tor for NCDs. We all know that prevent, treat, and care are the solutions but eliminating the major risk factors is the key in preventing NCDs. And it requires action from everyone including you!

Our Marketing, Campaign, and Advocacy Director (MCAD) CIMSA, Shela Putri Sundawa (University of Indonesia), is a Global Can-cer Ambassador for Indonesia who attended Global Cancer Ambassadors and journalists training in New York City! This three-day event in New York City was proposed by American Cancer Society (ACS) to help raise awareness of the global burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDs), like cancer. The event “We Can, We Should, We Will Conquer Cancer,” represents an important step in the ACS con-tinuing efforts to establish cancer and other NCDs as a global health priority. Shela also at-tended 2011 United Nations High Level Meet-ing on Prevention and control of NCDs which was held on September 19th-20th in New

York. Hope her stories below will help you to know about NCDs campaign and take actions in your local about NCDs awareness, enjoy!

7 FACTS ABOUT NON-COMMUNICABLE DISEASES

1. NCDs account for 63% of all deaths.

2. 80% of NCDs deaths occur in low- and middle-income countries

3. 29% of NCD deaths occur in people under the age of 60 liv-ing in low- and middle-income countries.

4. Around the world, NCDs af-fect women and men almost equally

5. One and a half billion adults, 20 and older, were overweight in 2008.

6. Tobacco use kills nearly six million people a year.

7. NCDs are largely prevent-able by means of effective in-terventions that tackle shared risk factors, namely: tobacco use, unhealthy diet, physical inactivity and harmful use of alcohol.

(available from: http://www.who.int/features/factfiles/noncommunicable_

diseases/facts/en/index.html)

1. Advocacy Training “We Can, We Should, We Will Conquer Cancer” by American Cancer Society, New York City, June 2011

This training was held on June 18t-20 2011 by American Cancer Society. One of the most impor-tant activities of the training was meeting of Glob-al Cancer Ambassador (GCA) with their UN Mis-sion. This was the time in which GCA had to define some crucial ask that would determine the fate of cancer in the future. For this matter, I met with Mr

Hasan Kleib as Permanent Representative of Indo-nesia to UN and Mr. Andy Rachmianto as Advisor. After returning from New York to the country of origin, the task of GCAs have not been completed yet. Indeed, their work has barely begun, both for making advocacy to the government, as well as ed-ucating society. I will not be able to do this alone.

2. UN High Level Meeting on Prevention and Control NCDs , New York,

September 2011

On September 19th and 20th this year, United Na-tions (UN) held their 66th General Assembly on Non-Communicable Diseases (NCD) in UN head-quarters New York. It is only the second time UN brought health issue into their High Level Meet-ing. Attended by 34 heads of state and 120+ mem-ber of states, on Monday September 19th the Po-litical Declaration of the High-level meeting of the General Assembly on the Prevention and Control of Non-communicable Diseases was adopted.

CIMSA as one of big in-fluential medical student organization in Indonesia was succeeded to place one of its represen-tative inside Indonesia’s offi-cial delegation. As Marketing, Campaign, and Advocacy Direc-tor for CIMSA I attended the meeting together with minister of health, minister of foreign affair, permanent representa-tive of Indoensia to UN, Special Envoy of President of Republic Indonesia on MDGs, and many others. The full re-port of the meeting is availabe to be downloaded in http://www.4shared.com/document/SB5GH-bEm/report_fix.html (Bahasa version) and http://www.4shared.com/document/OSt419kr/report_un_summit__english_.html? (English version).

In one of side events, CIMSA representative present-ed IFMSA-CIMSA’s role to tackle NCD in Weill Cornell Medical College, New York. This meeting was held by AYUDA (American Youth Understanding Diabetes Abroad) and YP-CDN (Young Professional-Chronic Disease Network) which was attended by more than 35 organization representatives around the world.

The objective of the meeting was to discuss young people role on tackling NCD issue. The attendants were pleased by what IFMSA and CIMSA had done on NCD issue and encour-aged us more to continue and touch them up.

About the UN Summit, I believed that it ac-knowledged the global burden and threat of NCDs and impact on so-cial and economic de-velopment in all coun-tries. However, more needs to be done on

the action side of things. Our work is only beginning - we need govern-ments to implement the commit-ments in the political declaration; we need strong global targets that

set out the vision of where we are heading with our collective actions; we need national plans and strategies and we need NCDs as part of the MDGs.

All the tasks in the interests of GCA is for the country and the people they represent. There-fore, I expect active participation from all members of community, especially youth to hand in hand participating to address the bur-den of cancer and NCD in a bigger view. youth to hand in hand participating to address the burden of cancer and NCD in a bigger view.

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Have you ever heard about this phrase “The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.”? Well, this fa-mous quote came from a woman named

Helen Keller. You might probably be familiar with her. She is one of a legend as an author,

lecturer, and political activist. She is also an inspiration, owing to the fact that she won

Honorary University Degrees Women’s Hall of Fame, The Presidential Medal of Freedom, The

Lions Humanitarian Award, as well as gaining two Oscars for her story of life, although she was blind and deaf. Her achievement might question you, how come a blindeaf person

achieved so much in her life.

How is it like to be blind?Let’s start with what is blindness. According to World Health Organization, blindness is simply the inability to see. The causes of blindness may vary, from age-related blindness to blindness due to systemic diseases, as well as from physi-ological to neurogical etiologies. In Indonesia, it is estimated that as much as 1,5 % of our people are blind. Although blindness sounds so terrifying, WHO stated that three-quarters of all blindness can be prevented and treated by surgery. What a good news, isn’t?

Eye is the organ which gives us the sense of light, allowing us to observe and learn more about the surrounding world than we do with any of the other four senses. Almost everything we do required the work of eyes. The process of vision begins with an object entering the eye through cornea, which is the clear dome at the front of the eye. The light then progresses through pupil, the circular opening in the cen-ter of the colored iris. The incoming light has an ability to change the size of eye’s pupil, this ability of pupil is called papillary light response. The light waves then bent or converged first by the crystalline lense behind iris and pupil, to a nodal point located immediately behind the

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the back surface of the lens. Here, the image becomes re-versed, and inverted. The light then moves along the vitrous humor, the clear gel, then fo-cus on retina. The small cen-tral area which is called macula provides the best vision of any

location in the retina. Within the retina, the light impulses are changed into electrical sig-nals, which are sent to optic nerve, along the visual path-way. Physiologically, we do not actually see with our eyes, but with our brain. Our eyes simply are the beginnings of the vi-sual process, hence any distur-bance or abnormality around the eyes and along the vision pathway may impair the ability to see, and at the worst case is blindness.

There are two major kind of blindness. First is par-tial blindness. This means that you have very limited vision, whereas the other type called complete blindness which in-dicates that you cannot see anything and do not see light. Complete blindness may be also called as NLP, which

stands for no light perception. Many people might also clas-sify blindness further into legal blindness and low vision. Le-gal blindness defined as visual acuity of 20/200 (6/60) or less in the better eye with best cor-rection possible. This means

that legally blind person would need to stand as far as 20 feet from an abject with corrective lenses in order to see it, in com-pared with a normally sighted person who could see from 200 feet. On the other hand, the low vision people indicates that their visual acuities from 20/70 to 20/200.

As what have been men-tioned earlier, the etiologies of blindness vary from one person to the other. The WHO record-ed that cataracts, glaucoma, and age related macular de-generation as top three causes of blindness. These causes of blindness also related to the poverty in developing worlds. Other possible causes of blind-ness can be injuries and genet-ic defect. Let’s take an example of an abnormality called optic nerve hypoplasia which may

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affect the nerve bundle that sends signals from the eye to the back of the brain, which then may lead to decreased visual acuity. Furthermore, people with injuries to the occipital lobe of the brain might also be legally or totally blind. In ad-dition, people with genetic defect, such as albi-nism, as well as Leber’s congenital amaurosis can cause the severe sight loss from birth or early childhood. Other important cause of blindness could be vi-tamin A deficiency. Vitamin A is known as a fat soluble vitamin which is broken down by pancreatic en-zymes and absorbed in our intestines. This vitamin is actually re-quired by photoreceptor to produce essential proteins involved in phototransduction cycle. Conditions that may affect pancreatic function, such as cystic fibrosis and chronic pancreatitis, or conditions that lead to reduced absorption of vitamin A may lead to deficiency. A deficiency condition then may result in symptom of night blindness.

Despite the fact that being blind is so dreadful, several aids have been discovered to help blind

people to have better quality of life. The first one is Braille system.

Braille system was created in 1825 by Louis Braille, a blind. This Frenchman create a Braille character which is made up of six dot positions.

This system has become a great favor for machines with convert printed text to speech. Other tools can be used, like white cane with a red tip. This tool may help them to mobilize. Others can also use guide dogs to navigate them around, and also GPS for the visual im-pairment. All in all, by looking the fact that our world has discovered so many tools

to help the blind, as well as learning from Hel-en Keller’s history, we can say that being blind might not be a disaster if only the beholder still have spirit and faith. Even a blind people have an ability to succeed in their life. Being blind, as well as having other physical disturbance should not stop anyone from achieving their goals and dreams. However, it should also be noted that, eyes are still an important sense in our body, thus taking a very good care of the eyes is man-datory for every human being.

Reference:-Barton, H. and K. Byrne. Introduction to human Vision, Visual Defects & Eye Test.

Maret 2007-Hellen Keller and Anne Sullivan and John A. Macy. 1903. The Story of My Life.

New York, NY:Doubleday-WHO. Blindness. (home page in the internet). March 2011. Available from http://

www.who.int/topics/blindness/en/-Bank Mata Indonesia (home page in the internet). Indonesia Eye Bank. Available

from http://indonesianeyebank.org/

written by: Anastasia Magdalena Lantang Local Public Health Officer CIMSA University of Indonesia

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written by: Anastasia Magdalena Lantang Local Public Health Officer CIMSA University of Indonesia

CATARACT SURGERYThe symptoms of early cataract may be im-proved with new eyeglasses, brighter lighting, an-ti-glare sunglasses, or magnifying lenses. If these measures do not help, surgery is the only effective treatment. Surgery involves removing the cloudy lens and replacing it with an artificial lens or per-manent intraocular lens (IOL) to restore focusing power.1, 2

A cataract needs to be removed only when vision loss interferes with your everyday activities, such as driving, reading, or watching TV. You and your doctor can make this decision together. Once you understand the benefits and risks of surgery, you can make an informed decision about whether cataract surgery is right for you.1

Sometimes a cataract should be removed even if it does not cause problems with your vi-sion. For example, a cataract should be removed if it prevents examination or treatment of another eye problem, such as age-related macular degen-eration or diabetic retinopathy.1

What are the different types of cataract surgery?There are three basic techniques for cataract sur-gery:

1. PhacoemulsificationWith the use of an operating microscope, eye sur-geon will make a very small incision in the surface of the eye in or near the cornea. A thin ultrasound probe is inserted into the eye and uses ultrasonic vibrations to dissolve (phacoemulsify) the clouded lens. These tiny fragmented pieces are then suc-tioned out through the same ultrasound probe. Once the cataract is removed, an artificial lens is

placed into the thin capsular bag that the cataract previously occupied. This lens, called an Intra Ocu-lar Lens (IOL), is essential to help your eye focus after surgery. An IOL is a clear, plastic lens that re-quires no care and becomes a permanent part of your eye.2 Light is focused clearly by the IOL onto the retina, improving your vision. You will not feel or see the new lens.1

In this most modern method, cataract surgery can usually be performed in less than 30 minutes and usually requires only minimal sedation. Numbing eyedrops or an injection around the eye is used and, in general, no stitches are used to close the wound, and often no eye patch is required after surgery.3

Phacoemulsification in cataract surgery involves insertion of a tiny, hollowed tip that uses high fre-quency (ultrasonic) vibrations to “break up” the eye’s cloudy lens (cataract). The same tip is used to suction out the lens.

The replacement for the cataract-damaged natural lens, the intraocular lens (IOL),is positioned in the capsular bag of the eye. Throughout the procedure, most patients are drowsy, relaxed, and feel no pain.

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2. Extracapsular cataract extraction (ECCE)This procedure is used mainly for very ad-vanced cataracts where the lens is too dense to dissolve into fragments (phacoemulsify). This technique requires a larger incision so that the cataract can be removed in one piece without being fragmented inside the eye and leaving in place the back of the capsule that holds the lens

in place. An artificial lens is placed in the same capsular bag as with the phacoemulsification technique. This surgical technique requires a various number of sutures to close the larger wound, and visual recovery is often slower. Ex-tracapsular cataract extraction usually requires an injection of numbing medication around the eye and an eye patch after surgery.3

3. Intracapsular cataract extraction (ICCE)This surgical technique requires an even larg-er wound than extracapsular surgery, and the surgeon removes the entire lens and the sur-rounding capsule together. This technique re-quires the intraocular lens to be placed in a dif-ferent location, in front of the iris. This method is rarely used today but can still be useful in cases of significant trauma.3

Cataract Surgery RecoveryWhen the operation is over, the surgeon will usually place a protective shield over your eye. After a short stay in the outpatient recovery

area, you will be ready to go home. Plan to have someone else drive you home. You will need to administer eye drops, as prescribed by your surgeon, several times daily during the next few weeks. You also will need to wear your protective eye shield while sleeping or napping, for about a week after surgery. You will be given sun shades to help protect your eye in bright light.2

Complications of Cataract SurgeryWhile cataract surgery is one of the safest pro-cedures available with a high rate of success, rare complications can arise. The most com-mon difficulties arising after surgery are per-sistent inflammation, changes in eye pressure, infection, or swelling of the retina at the back of the eye (cystoid macular edema), and retinal detachment. If the delicate bag the lens sits in is injured, then the artificial lens may need to be placed in a different location. In some cases, the intraocular lens moves or does not func-tion properly and may need to be repositioned, exchanged, or removed. All of these complica-tions are rare but can lead to significant visual loss; thus, close follow-up is required after sur-gery. If you have pre-existing macular degener-ation or floaters, these will not be made better by cataract surgery.1

Reference:1. National Eye Institute. Facts About Cata-ract. United States: National Eye Institute, 2009. Available from http://www.nei.nih.gov/health/cataract/cataract_facts.asp2. Haddrill M. Cataract Surgery. Access Me-dia Group LLC, 2011. Available from http://www.allaboutvision.com/conditions/cataract-surgery.htm3. Randleman JB. Stöppler MC ed. Cataract Surgery. MedicineNet, 2011. Available from http://www.medicinenet.com/cataract_surgery/article.htm

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Aorta : What is Pertuni? Would you want to give its brief explanation, please?Mr.Bayu : Pertuni is the abbreviation of Per-satuan Tuna Netra Indonesia. It is a social and national organization of blinds. Pertuni has been existed in all of Indonesian provinces. Pertuni has the board of man-agements in all of organization levels. Pertuni organizes the advocational activities and empowerment of blinds. Today, it has 18.000 members approximately.A : How was its early condition?M : On 26 January 1966, it was established by Indonesian blind intellectuals. It was established to improve the livelihood of blinds and to empower them.A : What are the current activities of Pertuni today?M : There are various activities conducted by Pertuni, such as training of computer skill, manage-ment, and entrepreneurship. In advocating, Pertuni conducts advocation in education, law, etc.

>>INTERVIEW WITH PERTUNI

In the end of September 2011, we did an interview with Pertuni (Per-satuan Tunanetra Indonesia - Indonesian Blind Union) in their office in Jakarta. But actually they have many offices in other provinces from Sumatera until Papua. We meet Mr. Bayu Iwan Yulianto (Secretary General of Pertuni) then we made a nice conversation with him. Let’s check out our interview!

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A : How does the Pertuni recruit its members?M : Members recruitment is con-ducted by the branch office of Pertuni, and then we implements briefing and workshop conducted also by branch office.A : What do you want from Pertu- ni’s members to be in the fu ture?M : Pertuni hopes that the Pertuni’s members could be human resources who al-ways increase their capabilities through some trainings conducted by Pertuni.A : What are the achievements of Pertuni’s members?M : In music, Pertuni’s members have already reached the international level. In sport, chess has also reached the internation-al level. However, these are not balance with the availability of the facilities.A : What are the finding obstacles such as the lack of facilities?M : The other obstacle is the lack of people support. Therefore, the level of edu-cation of the blinds still ranges from the low-

est level to senior high school or vocational high school. Here, there are only few univer-sities that want to accept the blinds as the students.A : How about the books?M : The blinds use Braille as a book. But it is still limited edition for the Braille book because it is not efficient. And then, it is modified to be a digital book such as VCD so that the reader could hear the content of the book.A : What are the activities of Per- tuni that will be held soon?M : In December, we will conduct the Rakernas. It aims to improve the livelihood of Pertuni’s members. In December 2006, we will also conduct the memorial day of the disabled people, precisely on 3 December.

Reporter: Hafif Kusasi

Erwanda DesireHana Fadhilah

Annissa KallistaFebriana Intan

>> Our photo with Mr. Bayu Iwan yulianto (Secretary General of Pertuni)

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CHCP “community health care proj-ect for better health of indonesian“

CHCP (Community Health Care Project) is an activity organized by CIMSA UR, this event was held on July 21-24, 2011 in Tujuh Danau village, Kampar Regency, Riau. The purpose of this activity is to promote the health aspect to the community for a better Indonesia. The first day, this activity began by giving ques-tionnaires about health problems that are often en-countered in the area. CIMSAers were very excited to share the whole village community, despite having to cross the creek. In the second day, we collect the questionnaires that have been distributed previously, while promoting activities on Saturday and Sunday. The activities on the third day divided into 3 parts; free medical treatment, counseling to parents, and counseling to the children. Parents are given materials on healthy and economi-

cal meals for children, while for the children are given materials about hand washing, first aid, and oragnic-inorganic waste. On the fourth day, the committee and the com-munity carried out joint exercises. Then it was contin-ued with cooking competions and quiz. At that time the mothers participated in the cooking competition and while the children were having fun with the quiz. the ingredients had been prepared by thhe committee, and this competition was judged by the committee and the village head. After distributing prizes to the winner of the contest, CIMSAers said goodbye to the village head and the community, then ended the activities of CHCP 2011. Our hope is to create a healthy Indonesia, and hopefully this activity is able too provide better knowl-edge too citizens about the health aspect.

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ACTION 2011 The Asian Collaborative Training on Infectious Diseases, Outbreak, Natural Disaster and Refugee Management (ACTION) with the under grand theme “ The New Wave in Disaster Medicine for the Man-agement of Earthquake” on August 15 – 21, 2011.This event is aimed at providing healthcare students from Asia-Pasific most of the essential knowl-edge and skills required to aid in ensuring proper health manage-ment after an earthquake. Health-care students not just being able to help in medical missions but also able to ensure disaster prepared-ness and complete rehabilitation. During the seven day training and workshop, all participants have acquired new knowledge and skills about disaster medicine for the management of earthquake. This convention was attended by 32 healthcare students leaders, representing several IF-MSA National Member Organization (NMO) namely from Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippine, Thailand, Hong

Kong, Japan, China and Taiwan. By the end of ACTION 2011, all participants should be able to explain the management of earth-quake, understand the prevention for medical mis-take during disaster, make a camp for management the victims of an earthquake, understand skill for emergency such as triage and BTLS, control of infec-

tion after earthquake and impli-cation for MDG’s Goal. In conclusion me as chair AC-TION 2011 have a big dream that all training and workshop pro-grams will assist in developing these physicians of the future; empowering medical students as key human resources with new knowledge in disaster medicine

which will enable them to initiate and participate in future measures for providing proper management of earthquake.Thank you for all LOC and Participants ACTION 2011

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TUBERCULOSIS XCHANGE 2011

Tuberculosis XChange 2011 (TBX 2011) is a program that was held by SCORE CIMSA and took place in Medical Faculty of Airlangga University in Surabaya. The participants of Tuberculosis XChange 2011 were greeted by the dean of Medical Faculty of Airlangga University, Prof. Dr. Agung Pranoto, dr., M.Sc., Sp.PD., K-EMD, FINASIM, in the opening cer-emony that was held in GRAMIK Hall. In this program, the participants not only were given some lectures about Tuberculosis, they also had a chance to see the patient in dr. Soetomo hospital as well as visiting the endemic area of Tuber-culosis in which they were able to take some sample of patient’s sputum and saw the traditional culture of Indonesia. Throughout the 2 weeks, the partici-pant of TBX 2011 program were also taken to see some historical places in Surabaya, such as Monka-sel, Hero Monument, Al-Akbar Mosque, and joined the Historical city tour.

At the end of the program, the participants were also taken to Jogjakarta for 4 days to enjoy Indo-nesia’s culture and heritage. In Jogjakarta, the stu-dents enjoyed some Indonesian food, watched the epic Ramayana in Prambanan temple complex, and also visited World’s largest temple, Borobudur, Ulen Sentalu museum, Water castle and Merapi mountain

site. T u b e r -c u l o s i s XC h a n ge 2011 is a p ro g ra m that allow m e d i c a l students

from Indonesia as well as overseas to know more about Tuberculosis, especially those that comes from countries that have low number of Tuberculosis cas-es. This program also introduces the rich culture and the beautiful places of Indonesia.

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It was July 8th, when the members of CIMSA Uni-versitas Sebelas Maret Surakarta have our first local General Meeting after the new Local Coordinator, Ardina Nur Pramudhita elected.The main mission of this General Meeting is to have

the new official of CIMSA UNS, which is consist of Executive Board and Supporting Division.Each candidate have to presented their vision, mis-sion, and the plan of action to all of member, senior, and alumni who are coming. Starting with the candi-date from Supporting Division then ended with the presentation from Executive Board Candidature. And this is the result of the voting:Vice Loco for Internal : Muhammad DzulfikarVice Loco for External: Bagus BoediSecretary General: Amalia ArdanaTreasurer: Monica AstaraniAlumni Director: Anita RahmanHuman Resource Development Director: Aisya Fikri-tamaFundraising and Merchandise Director: Dwi Tiara

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MALIGNAN (MARI LESTARIKAN LINGKUNGAN)

Malignan (Mari lestarikan lingkungan - in english Let’s preserve our environtment) is the Local Project of SCOPH CIMSA UIN which was held to celebrate World Environment Day, This event’s aim is to raise public awareness on en-vironment and health care. as we already know, a clean environment will be far from the diseases.This event consists of several activities, the first is Fun aerobic cimsa, this activity aims to increase public awareness about their health, aerobic in-structed by two teach-ers. In this activity, many people who attended, not only parents but also many children attended this event. Then the second event is Examination of GCA (Glucose, cholesterol and uric acid) and measurement of blood pressure, this activity is done after gymnastics together. This

activity aims to identify risk factors that exist in the general population, so people know what to do. then the third event is Plant Trees along , This activity was held after the gym together, for people who do the planting of trees, then it will get a souvenir in the form of small ornamental trees colored - iridescent, where the activity aims to increase public participa-tion in preserving the environment and then the last

event is emissions testing of motor vehicle this ac-tivity is carried out after the exercise is complete, where the motorists are welcome to attend this emission test , this activ-ity aims to determine the feasibility of gas our cars on the environment. Enthusiasm of people in this event is very high, as evidenced by the many participants who attended

and participated in this event, this proves that peo-ple around the UIN is still concerned about the envi-ronment and health. it was held on June 26, 2011

On Sunday July 24, 2011, SCOPH Cimsa Unissula held an social ac-tion in Madrasah Al-Islamiyah ke-lurahan Kemijen, Semarang. We held ‘Pengobatan Massal’---- in eng-lish: Free Mass

medical clinic ---- for people around there. The event theme is Cardiac (Cure and treatment day session at CIMSA). In accord with the theme, we try to provide a medication for patients attending this event. Be-side that, this event also gave us a chance to trained our skill as a medical students by directly interacted with people in a community. Some children in madrasah appointed to be doctor bear or small doctor. They were explained briefly about the doctor profession. In this event, they had a duty to bring patient from their arrival until the patient left after receiving the medication.

We choosed this place because we had observed the area around the madrasah before and it can be called less healthy. About 200 people attended this event and most of them came from this area (Kemijen). The school (madrasah) has been chosen before to be a target school of Cimsa Unissula. The medications (drugs) are given by Dinas Kesehatan Pusat (health de-

partement) and also sponsored by PT. Pertamina (persero). It was the first time for Cimsa Unissula to held this mass medical clinic event but although that was

the first time, we can say that this event was success-fully done. So, this event will be recommended to be held annually by Cimsa Unissula, especially SCOPH Cimsa Unissula.

- BAKTI Students’ DayBAKTI Students’ Day is an introductory component of the Faculty of Medicine, Andalas University to new students. In this event, CIMSA participated in the jazzy atmosphere. First, LOCO CIMSA Unand, Mareza Dwithania, introduced what is CIMSA and IFMSA. It was enlivened by games and dances typical CIMSA. After that, there are question and answer session.

As we saw the enthusism of new students tp CIMSA, hopeful-ly this could be a good start for the regeneration CIMSA Unand.

- AORTA CIMSA Unand (the Art of OR-ganizational management Training for All CIMSA Unand) This event is an upgrading to CIMSA Unand members aim to improve knowledge as and of course as the way to get more closer among us. The event was held on 13-14 August 2011.On the first day, we provided the basic material. The materials has been given by our seniors. Then, on the second day, we administered several advanced materials that continue to break fasting together. This event aims to strengthen fraternity among the members and alumnies.

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Early in July, SCORE CIMSA Unpad welcomed guest coming from Slovenia, Europe. His name is Anze Opara. He stayed near Hasan Sadikin Hospital, Bandung, for about a month, from July 1st until Au-gust 1st, 2011. Not pale beside SCORE, in this July, August, and September 2011, SCOPE CIMSA Unpad also got eleven special guest in total, who really wanted to learn about medical works in Indonesia and also wants to know Indonesian culture as well. In July, they got 6 incomings from France, Poland, Spain and, Austria. In the first week, they held ‘Wel-coming Party’ where they could introduce Indone-sia, especially West Java, and share any information about our own country, and also introduce our local SCOPE team. Beside sharing about culture and medical

things, they also had fun together at Tangkuban Parahu and rafting! In August 2011, SCOPE

got 3 special guest: Eva Pusch (Germany), Jorge Bri-an Perez Torres (Spain) and Alexandru Marienscu (Romania). SCOPE picked them up at Jakarta, then had fun together with our local buddy, SCOPE UI. The last 2 incomings came in September. They come from Swistzerland and Romania.From this ex-change program, SCOPE learned much things, such as knowing different perspective in cultures even religion, knowing how medical works done in each

country, and knowing the medical education system in different countries. After entered the new academic year, Human Resources and Development Team held the “Sendal Jepit”, an abbreviation of “Specialization for All Non-officials to Develop All Skills and to Jump with the Spirit”. The program was held on September 17th. The series of agenda in September then were fol-

lowed by Bina Desa p r o g r a m , “Balai Pen-gobatan”, on September 18th. This p r o g r a m was under all standing

committee’s belt. It was held at Bina Desa Team’s monitored village, Hegarmanah, Jatinangor. This pro-gram applied its motto, C4 – CIMSA Come for Care and Cure, to serve the patients. Late in September, SCOME, and SCORA held “Memo” and “SCORA Back to School”, respectively. In “Memo”, Medical Movie, SCOME played Medical Miami, then the audience discussed the film with ex-pert, dr. Rudi Supriyadi, MKes., SpPD-KGH, FINASIM. Second to none, SCORA welcomed the new academ-ic year by “SCORA Back to School”. In this program, SCORA gave counseling about reproductive issues to students of elementary school, junior high school, and senior high school in Bandung.

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exchang stories

Linda Soebroto (Sebelas Maret University)Nancy, France

It’s been a very happy moment when I decided to join SCOPE IFMSA Exchange program. I got a clerkship experience in

cardiovascular surgery department in Nancy, France. I have never seen this kind of surgery before. So that made me open

my mind about surgery.First time was always the hardest part to

step forward. But, I got a lot of experiences there, that I would not get it here in my country. My housemate was very

kind and she became one of my tour guides there. Thanks IFMSA for mak-ing my dreams come true. I wish I can go there again!

e I did this SCOPE exchange program from IFMSA to Brno,Czech Republic in August this year,and I went for some euro trip to several countries after that.This is my first exchange experience. I made lot of new friends,I learn their language,like from just daily conversation like “hello,goodbye,thankyou,how are you,you’re wel-come” into some sentences that are usually used when you’re into some girls,you know what I’m sayin,like these Italian girls taught me something that goes like this “Hey bello, posso offrirti da bere?” which means “hey beautiful,can I offer you a drink?”and they taught me how to curse on their language

which for sure,I will not sharing it here.I get lot of informations from their cultures, like I have this scandinavian girl from sweden,who’s really friendly by the way, but she’s always on time,I mean like always,and she walk really fast,she told me that it’s a common thing in Sweden for you to walk that fast. Well the exchange program it self only took like a month, and in everyweekend there are social programs.In normal day,we went to hospital we attended to some departement,we learnt something new,like the doctors in the hospital treated us really well,they wanted to share what they have. For me this exchange program that’s held by SCOPE,IFMSA is a good op-portunity for those medical students who want to learn something in departement they’re interested in like cardiology,surgery or something else,while making a new friends from worldwide,learning their language,culture,and so on. And also doing some memorable journey. Hope you guys enjoy it. Cheers.

Pangeran Akbar Syah (Gadjah Mada University)

Brno, Czech Republic

@ Prague

at a Park in Brno

Rifki Zidny (Gadjah Mada University)

Tsukuba, Japan

I decided to apply for research exchange which is the program of SCORE. And I got a chance to go to Japan! It was an incredible ex-perience to learn about neurosurgery in Japan. I was introduced to high-tech surgical tools and introduced to surgical disease that requires neurosurgeon. The doctors and the students there are very kind and always taught how to be a good neurosurgeon. The social programs were also very good, they often treated me, they even accompanied me backpaking

there. if you want to seriously study medicine when exchange, I suggest you to go to Japan. But remember, they are very disciplined :)

shopping place at Shibuya

In front of Kiyozumi Tample

@ Tsukuba University

My name is Hendra Kurniawan, I am an alumni from Syah Kuala University, Aceh. I’m from SCOME. Years after I joined with CIMSA, I am always interested about the exchange world. And then in 2007 I got a chance to go on students exchange to Finland. I did a clinical experience in the depar-tement of obstetric and gynecology at one of the hospitals there. I got many experiences. The service in that hospital is very different from hospitals

in Indonesia. Every patient (especially pregnant women) there, is well served and very concerned by the medical personnel. The medical equipment in the hospital in Finland is highly sophisticated besides, Finland is one of many countries in the world which has great educa-tion quality. The doctors in the hospital I worked was very welcome to the students from other countries outside Finland like the incom-ing exchange students. They explained to me in detail about how an obsgyn doctor works, how they assist baby delivery, and etc. After 1 month I did the clinical study in the hospital, I traveled around Europe.

This was a worth experience that I can’t get in other places.

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Photo by: Janatarum Sri Handono - SCOPH UMYtitle: outside insight, inside out of sight.

It tells that blind people, although they have no sight, inside their soul they never give up living their life.

“There is no better way to

thank God for your sight

than by giving a helping hand

to someone in the dark.”

-Helen Keller

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