CON CICOM2016_ING

CALL
Concurso Internacional de Conocimientos Médicos
THE FACULTAD DE MEDICINA OF THE UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO (UNAM) INVITES
ALL UNIVERSITIES TO PARTICIPATE IN THE “3rd INTERNATIONAL CONTEST OF MEDICAL KNOWLEDGE”
Which will take place at the “Dr. Raoul Fournier Villada” Auditorium at the Facultad de Medicina, UNAM,
Mexico City, from November 14 to18, 2016.
BASES
The contest
The topic of the “International Contest of Medical Knowledge 2016” (CICoM 2016) will
be “Select Topics in General Medicine”. The contest is divided into several phases. In each
phase the participants, organized in teams, will answer several questions written in English
and Spanish with a limited time.
The questions will be in a multiple option format. If the team answers correctly, they will
win a point. The team with the most points at the end of each phase will continue to the
next stage until two finalist teams are left. Out of these two teams the winner of the
”CICoM2016” will be know after the final phase.
The teams
Each University will select independently its representative team. Six students enrolled in
the Medical School of each University will form each team. The team must include:
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as shown
in the table:
Year of curriculum
First year
Equivalent in Semesters
First and second semester
Second year
Third and fourth semester
Third year
Fourth year
Fifth year
Sixth year
Fifth and sixth semester
Seventh and eighth semester
Ninth and tenth semester
Eleventh and twelfth semester
If the curriculum of the Medical School has a shorter duration, additional students can represent
any year until 6 members are selected.
Each University should assign a staff member that will be in charge of maintaining communication with the Organizing Committee of the CICoM 2016 for the
registration process.
Each University must assign an academic tutor whom will be the academic representative of the team before and during the contest and must be present at the
time of the contest. Furthermore, the academic tutor will be part of the jury during
some phases of the event.
After the registration process, the academic tutor of each Medical School must
send to the Academic Coordination some questions and answers. These are
necessary for the development of the contest. The characteristics and format of
the questions and answers will be sent to each tutor after finishing the registration
process.
Each team will only represent one University. Only one team per university is
permitted to participate.
Registration process
Each team must complete each one of the following phases:
• Primera
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universidad
deberá
contactar
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The staff
memberadministrativo
responsible for
School
should
send an
al Organizador
del CICoM
2016 para
establecer el interés por participar
a la
e-mail
to the Organizing
Committee
(inscripcionescicom@gmail.com)
regarding
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school’s
interest toinscripcionescicom@gmail.com;
participate. The subject of the email
must include
name
de la Coordinación
Participantes del CICoM 2016.
of the MedicaldeSchool.
The Student Organizing Committee will answer with an instructive and a registration form.
These documents will specify the necessary documents that should be sent in the second
phase of the registration process. The first phase will begin in January 2016 and e-mails will
be considered until March 31th, 2016.
During this phase and after occupying all available sites to participate, the Organizing Committee will inform electronically to the universities which did acquired a place. If during the
registration process, some university shall declare uninterested; its place will be given to the
first university on hold and so in succession.
Phase 2: Fase:
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received
the hayan
email above,
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contact
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documentos
La fecha límite
May
2016.
para 31th,
esta fase
será el día 31 de mayo de 2016.
The 2016 CICoM looks additionally from academic achievement to socio-cultural cooper-
ation between the participants. Therefore, from November 14 to 15 will take place the
cultural agenda and on November 16, 17 and 18, the contest itself. During this phase, the
universities interested in participating should inform through the formats established the
starting date of activities CICoM.
Absence from 20% of confirmed activities entail a penalty determined by the Academic
Committee of CICoM 2016.
Phase 3:Fase:
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Committee CICoM
20162016
will check
the los
documents
and
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del CICoM
revisará
documentos
the Medical
School
about any
wrong/missing
documents. The
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notificará
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documents should
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30th, 2016,
otherwise
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los equipos
deberán
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not be accepted,
and
registration procedure
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Organizador.
La fecha límite
para el envío de los documentos con las correcciones pertinentes será el día 30 •
During this phase, in addition, international teams will be sent letters of institutional support
for the processing of visas.
an administration
fee ofdocumentación
$100 USD persea
Medical
School
is required.
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In addition, international teams must send a scanned copy of the visa of all attendees. They
must also send a letter of intent to acquire a life insurance policy that has international
coverage. The deadline for the receipt of these documents will be on August 31st 2016.
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as a
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enrollment.
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detailed
description
of the contest,
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una copia
de la agenda
del
tions,
a list of topics
regarding
theme “Selected
in General
Medicine”
evento.
and
a copy of the itinerary of the contest.
During this phase it will be the responsibility of the participating teams to send their travel
itinerary to the Organizing Committee.
Regarding the questions and answers that are obligatory for every team, the Academic
Coordination of the CICoM will get in contact after finalization of the registration proccess. These are obligatory and must be in English.*
DEADLINES
The registration process must be done within the following periods: **
• First Phase: All Medical Schools with the interest of participating in the contest
send an e-mail before March 31th, 2016.
must sendmust
an eAlldocumentación
documents mustcomplementaria
be received by se
May
31th, hasta
2016.el 31 de
• Second
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fase: La
recibirá
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corrected
documents
must be received
June 30th, 2016.
• Third
Tercera
fase: The
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de presentar
irregularidades
en laby
documentación,
la
• Fourth Phase: The payment of the participating fee must be made before July 29th
2016. The sending of visas and commitment letters to purchase life insurance
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* The questions to be sent in Spanish will be where the official language is this. If the
university comes from a country where the official language is not Spanish, the questions
should be submitted in English.
** We advise all the universities to keep knowledge of the established deadlines in this
document. The Universities that do not send the required documents within the time limits
will automatically lose their place in the “CICoM 2016.
*** Those teams that make the payment after the established date should get in contact
with the Organizing Committee in order to get the refund of it.
Transitory
The Organizing Committee of the CICoM 2016 has the faculty of managing every situation
that is not considered in this document. The decisions taken by the Organizing Committee
are irrevocable.
"LEARNING TO GROW AND TRANSCEND"