Indonesia is an archipelago country located in the equator, which acts as one of the centers for varieties of diseases. As a country withholding the global title of the 4th most populated country, Indonesia should utilize its potential human resource as a foundation to improve the national and global health. In turn, to actualize that notion, adept human resources are needed, especially researchers. 

Unfortunately, according to Prof. Dr. H. Arief Rachman, M.Pd who work as the National Commissioner of Indonesia for UNESCO, Indonesia has a dangerously low number of researchers compared to the neighboring countries. Indonesia only has 1 071 researchers in on million citizens while Malaysia has 7 000 and Singapore has 2 590. In addition, Indonesia is also standing on the low end of research productivity. 

According to Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI), there are only 4 500 to 5 500 research publication from the massive total of 261.1 million Indonesian population, even when there are 12 – 14% of university teachers with Ph.D. Thus, there is an urgent need of researchers from both youth and the old generations. 

Research4Fun

Facilitating Indonesian citizens and foreign students on research and its application to the community while creating professional and social network as well as simultaneously upholding the 3rd and 4th SDGs.

We plan to commence SGP: SCORE Goes Public on all SCORE CIMSA local as well as Research Campaign on social media.

Further plan to achieve research awareness in Indonesia.

SCORE has a primary mission to distribute intensive and focused research projects as a media for medical students to improve their knowledge on their chosen medical fields, as well as to develop professional and social networking within Indonesia and abroad. Accordingly, the National Committee of Research Exchange (NCRE) issued the stance that SCORE Goes Public (SGP) will be compulsory to be done within each SCORE local. 

These projects are aiming to educate SCORE members all about research including its application to the community as well as how to analysis the data. SGP also contribute as a way of implementing SDGs and CIMSA Program. 

Quality education, which contained in the 4th SDGs, can be attained by providing opportunity to expand their knowledge about research and its application; in which those knowledges can be used to improve national and global health portraying the 3rd SDGs (Good Health and Well Being). Those armed SCORE members also can be seen as the implementation of CIMSA Program on “Human Resource for Health”. Chiefly, SCORE CIMSA Indonesia establish SGP as a means to procure youth researchers who are adept in research and committed. 

SGP as a means to procure youth researchers who are adept in research and committed. 

Goals & Milestone: 
• Collaboration with WHO on 2014 regarding BPJS 
• Empowering medical students on research to ultimately improve nation’s health 

What we have achieved so far.

1 SGP level 4 has been done by UNAND on 2017/2018 about children malnutrition degree correlation to the mother’s education and behavior. 

Furthermore, 3 level 1 SGP also have been enacted, 1 by UR about gathering, assessing, and analyzing data; 1 by UNPAD regarding community research and proposal development; and the last 1 by UNAIR about how to develop a good proposal. 

Our initiatives in improving research awareness in students.

#Research4Fun created 

Center for Indonesian Medical Students’ Activities (CIMSA) is a non-profit and non-government organization that is independent, nationalist, non-political, and non-partisan with activity-based programs. CIMSA consists of 6 standing committees related around health issues, that is Reproductive Health including HIV/AIDS, Public Health, Medical Education, Human Right and Peace, Research Exchange, and Professional Exchange. CIMSA is affiliated with International Federation of Medical Students’ Associations (IFMSA), the biggest medical students’ organization in the world who has been recognized by the United Nations.

CIMSA was officially established in May 6th, 2001 by some medical students from various cities of Indonesia based on the inclination for an organization that based on ongoing activities. CIMSA also held its first general assembly on May 11th – 13th, 2001 and become affiliated with IFMSA on 2002. Since then, CIMSA has 23 locals spread in various Faculty of Medicine throughout the Indonesia and continue to grow.

Standing Committee on Research Exchange (SCORE) of Center for Indonesian Medical Students’ Activities (CIMSA) is one of the standing committees of CIMSA which has a research exchange program to facilitate Indonesian medical students to experience study exchange to foreign countries for research purposes. The research can be done in a clinical and/or laboratory setting in hope of developing the skills and deepen the medical knowledge that can be applied for in the future for improving Indonesian healthcare.

SCORE CIMSA affiliated with IFMSA and other relevant external parties are the cogwheel of the exchange. The primary focus of SCORE CIMSA are to manage incomings and outgoings of the exchange. For the incomings, SCORE CIMSA help in the administration procedure for those who want to do research projects in one of the faculty of medicine in Indonesia as well as helping the incoming to adapt to Indonesia. SCORE CIMSA also invite the incomings to take part in any cultural and social events, hoping that they can blend in to Indonesian lifestyle and be acquainted with all aspect of living in Indonesia.

An introduction to who we are, SCORE CIMSA.

As a means to educate medical students about research, SCORE Goes Public is divided into three categories which are referred to as levels: 

1. TRAINING FOR TRAINERS Training for trainers is a training for SCORE members to deepen their understanding of the basic knowledge of research from selecting a topic to analyzing data. This SGP level can simultaneously be used as a bonding session with the members. The training materials revolves around basic research, such as: Research Biostatistics, Research Methodology, Developing A Research Proposal, and SPSS  

2. UNIVERSITY LEVEL RESEARCH
Running a research as the implementation of knowledge gained from the previous level of SGP. This research should be done within the coverage of one university but can also involve trans-faculty collaboration. The result of this university level research will then be used to educate or counsel university staffs and/or students. A research example could include: “The relationship of students’ tests score and teaching methods on University X”. 

3. COMMUNITY LEVEL RESEARCH 
Similar to the previous level, SCORE held a research with a broader range of target which will be the community. Research of this scope is advised to have a collaboration with external parties, such as WHO and LSM. The result of this research can be used to educate the masses or as data for the external parties or next projects. An example of the research could be: “The relationship of parents’ BMI and incidence of stunting children in X village”. 