WhatsApp is a smartphone messenger that employs the users’ existing internet data plan to connect the user to their social as well as learning community. This study aimed to explore the use of the WhatsApp instant messaging as a source of learning for postgraduate students enrolled in Master of Health...

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has caused a sudden shift towards online learning in education system. The readiness of lecturers in conducting online learning is one of the essential pre-conditions for online learning in medical education system. Aims: This study aims to measure lecturers’ attitudes...

Workplace-based formative assessment (WBA) has met with mixed reactions from users in postgraduate medical education. Users’ perceptions about WBA tend to be negative. Consequently, its learning value has yet to reach its full capacity. In this study, we explored which factors influence users’ perceptions...

Nudge is a concept introduced by behavioral sciences to ameliorate the attitude and behavior of individuals by utilizing the concept of positive reinforcement. The execution of nudges in a targeted and proper way has the potential to induce motivation in learners by identifying and making amends in the...

Critical thinking is an essential skill needed by a physician. One of the ways to learn these skills is using a critical thinking question list (CTQL). This study was aimed to evaluate the effect of CTQL in stimulating students’ critical thinking skill in the tutorial Problem-Based Learning (PBL). This...

Background: Medical ethics is one of competencies that medical doctor’ graduates should be accomplished. However, there is no consensus on standard of ethics learning for medical students. Many variations carried out by different medical faculties. This study aimed to identify the students’ perception...

Background and aims/objectives: The ability of family physicians to establish an inclusive and culturally-safe practice environment is a key competency of the profession. Our study aimed to explore the utility of questions assessing cultural sensitivity to improve ranking decisions of family medicine...

Objective: The study aims to assess their correlation and provide recommendations for a conducive educational environment (EE). Methods: This was a cross-sectional study conducted in a public sector medical institute of Pakistan in which EE of 320 students from 2nd till 5th years was assessed using...

Background The Covid-19 pandemic had an impact on all aspects of life including medical education at the Faculty of Medicine Universitas Islam Indonesia. Clinical learning was modified into combination of online and offline learning or blended learning. This study aimed to see the learning outcomes...

Background. Online PBL tutorials were conducted to comply with social distance requirements during the Covid-19 pandemic. Critical incidents (CIs) due to the new learning environment may cause group dysfunctionality. Data of CIs based on student’s perception was necessary for evaluation purposes, especially...

Teachers’ evaluation plays a crucial role in strengthening the learning process and curriculum delivery. In some situations, because of the complicated structure of the feedback proformas or the fear of being identified students might not be able to express themselves honestly. Unstructured and anonymous...

The Covid-19 pandemic has an impact in all sectors of life. Faculty of medicine issued a regulation on the implementation of online education to break the chain of spreading Covid-19. This research aimed to assess the impact of the online exam module on student anxiety during the Covid-19 pandemic. The...

Background and Objectives: Ethical and medicolegal competence is an important aspect of professionalism that must be possessed by obstetricians and gynaecologists. To support the achievement of these competencies, several methods of continuous learning and training are required by referring to the modules...

Background and Objectives: Competence and professionalism are two main aspects of an Obstetrics and Gynecology (OBGYN) specialist. A continuous learning process, introduction, development, and training are needed, both through classroom learning sessions and practice in real situations so that learning...

Background: The Academic integrity is a major part of academic culture in the sense of being obedient to basic principles, including academic honesty, mutual trust, mutual openness, mutual respect, and a sense of responsibility. However, there are few data on understanding of academic integrity among...

The Covid-19 era has an impact on teaching. The Faculty of Medicine of Universitas Islam Indonesia develops online classrooms with a number of learning strategies. Self-directed learning readiness is one of the factors related to the selection of learning strategies. This study aims to determine the...

Background: Fall injuries are common causes of dangerous inpatient conditions and should be prevented in neurosurgery inpatient wards. An adequate survey and evaluation of risk factors for falls is therefore crucial for the development of prevention and intervention strategies in inpatient care. Purpose:...

Covid-19 has had a serious impact on students, instructors, and educational organizations around the world in many other aspects of daily life. It could not happen overnight to move from an environment of conventional education to distance and e-learning. At this stage, this rapid transformation is linked...

Self-confidence has gained growing prominence as one of the influential factors influencing academic performance. The study about self-confidence and motivation using the data from the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 (MMPI-2) test was rarely reported. This study aimed to examine the relationship...

During these unprecedented times of COVID-19 pandemic, online teaching has allowed the continuation of medical education. Good online teaching practices should be adopted for efficient online learning. This study aimed to analyze the factors associated medical teachers’ behavior towards online teaching...

Self-discipline is the ability to prevent something that could lead to harmful effects of unhealthy excesses. Self-discipline has implications, particularly among medical students, for improving academic performance. The purpose of this study was to examine the association between self-discipline towards...

Education has been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic causes banned access to schools and universities. The students are moving into online learning from the conventional learning. This study aimed to analyze the factors influencing the satisfaction of medical students on online learning...

Teaching for newly-qualified Foundation Year 1 (FY1) doctors at our hospital has traditionally been delivered by senior clinicians. They have tended to focus on specialised and advanced areas of their fields, rather than the more basic pathologies encountered by a junior doctor on-call. This was resulting...

All universities during pandemic Covid-19, including faculty of medicine, have moved to online learning. The ability of students to learn is as much influenced by their inter-and intra-personal behavior as by their academic abilities. This study aimed to examine the association between knowledge, attitude,...

Nowadays, online learning has become a widespread practice as an integrated education technology during the COVID-19 pandemic. Learning is best viewed from the perception of students because they have direct experience of it. This study aimed to analyze the correlation between medical student’s perception...

A medical student is hoped to be a leader for himself and to another health professional in the future. Integrity will boost the quality of honesty and strong moral values among leaders. This study aimed to examine the correlation between personal integrity and leadership among medical students. A cross-sectional...

Background: The world faces a labor crisis and high incidence of dropouts. A shortage of health workers is predicted to reach 12.9 million by 2035. Being dropped out of school is marked by a decline in students’ achievement due to the loss of orientation and motivation. A declining achievement is an...

Background, The Covid-19 disease was first reported in China in the end of the year 2019 and within a span of few months it spread drastically in different countries of the world. As a consequence of that the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared it a “pandemic” and the educational institutes all...

Background A regional stage exam, called Ujian Tahap Bersama (UTB) and Progress Test (PT) are formative assessments. UTB II is tested on 4th year medical students to measure their knowledge of pathomechanism to therapy. The PT has been implemented in Faculty of Medicine (FoM), Universitas Islam Indonesia...

Background and aims: Since the Indonesia Covid-19 pandemic spread out in March 2020, the online learning method was applied in a professional medical program, and we started to use “Quizziz,” an educational game online. The study aimed to evaluate Small Group Learning activity’s effectiveness using “Quizziz”...

Student engagement in traditional chemistry lectures has been challenging. In this study, student engagement in and outside of the classroom was enhanced by student pre-class preparation and interactive lectures including group and class discussions, quizzes, short videos and problem-solving activities....

Background: The Covid-19 pandemic has caused changes in activity. Changing physical activity can cause various psychological changes in humans. For medical students, psychological changes because physical activity is an important factor in supporting academic motivation to learn. This study was aimed...

Background and aims: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has had tremendous effects on medical education including anatomy. In pandemic conditions students cannot study with cadavers which has been known as “gold standard” for anatomy learning. Alternatives anatomy learning media are pursued,...

Background and Objectives: The competency test for prospective GP, Doctor Profession Program (UKMPPD), is obligatory for the Indonesian Doctor. However, the low-graduating rate has been an issue for years. Kemendikbud suggests peer-mentoring and UMI have been implementing it since 2017. Therefore, the...

Background: Clinical competence is a mandatory requirement in medical education. The learning form of clinical competence is the skills lab. This learning activity uses tools that resemble the actual conditions of the patient. This study aims to compare the effectivity of learning venous puncture using...

PURPOSE: Undergraduate medical curriculum does not impart e-skills hence students learning outcomes may vary [1]. The use of exclusive e-learning during COVID has put forth the question “has targeted student learning been achieved?” As the educational environment in e-class has different dynamics, teaching...

Background: Central induction policy is recently implemented for induction of doctors for post-graduation training based on their performance in MBBS, post-graduation entrance exam, house job, studying in public institute, work in periphery and research. Despite controversies this policy was implemented...

Background: The Covid-19 pandemic has caused students to be unable to learn medical skills directly using standard mannequins. This study intends to determine the effectiveness of using a substitute mannequin in implementing medical skills of the Samara Family elective block and other aspects that need...

Background and Objectives: Clinical skills are part of competencies that Clinical Clerkship Student has to achieve and be undertaken at hospital evaluated by OSCE’s method. The purpose of this study aimed to examine the difference in the achievement of clinical skill’s competency score that worked at...

Introduction: Till last few decades doctors were mainly trained in tertiary care hospitals. Appreciating need of competency to manage community’s sufferings and health issues; during last 30-40 years, medical education has undergone significant re-formations and re-organization in its delivery and training...

As a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, since March 2020, transformation to online learning is fully implemented at all educational levels, including medical students who also adopt this new normal learning method. This study aims to determine contributing factors associated with students’ scores within...

Background: Rwanda and other low-income countries face a critical shortage of competent midwives. This capacity problem threatens the attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030. Competency-based midwifery education (CBME) holds the best promise of developing competencies and improving patient...

The government’s policy of implementing social distancing, work from home, and study from home to prevent the spread of the Covid-19 coronavirus has an impact on learning methods (Abel & McQueen, 2020). Clinical learning methods in health education before the pandemic are carried out in campus laboratories...

The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has significantly affected the medical education process, in both clinical and preclinical years. This study compared students’ perspectives of the pharmacology practicum conducted in 2019 (pre-pandemic, conventional) and 2020 (virtual, via the Zoom platform)....

Introduction: The pandemic situation that has been taking place in Indonesia since March 2020 has brought several changes to the learning process in medical faculty. Lab work is one of the online lessons that medical students have to complete. Online lab work carried out by students is expected to be...

Background and Objectives: During pandemic Covid-19 period, all learning activities for clerkship medical students were carried out using the online method including case based learning, references review, case reports, journal reviews, and patient case discussions in the form of portfolios. This study...

Background and aims: Parasitology practical work is expected to strengthen the retention of parasitology materials for medical students in block of adult problems. The aim of this study was to determine the correlation between the laboratory assessment and the achievement of parasitology materials on...

Background: Anatomy is an important basic science in medical education. Changes to the modern medical curriculum have an effect on reducing anatomy learning time which is not balanced with the number of anatomical materials that medical students must learn. In addition, there is a need for anatomical...

The concept of “assessment for learning” has been widely defined as a form of assessment that facilitates the improvement of students’ learning. However, there’s still limited evidence of real implementation of formative assessment, especially related to the sociocultural issues. This study explored...

Medical studies during the COVID-19 pandemic faced several obstacles that may affect students’ self-perceived competence. Objectives: This study aims to determine students’ self-perceived competence in family and community medicine clerkships and learning barriers faced during the COVID-19 pandemic....

Introduction. The medical profession demands are increasingly high, along with the medical education institutions’ needs producing competent doctors who are ready to perform the best medical services in the future. One of the indicators of the competence of a doctor is to become a professional. A doctor...

The COVID-19 pandemic has forced all universities worldwide to adopt the virtual learning method as the new method of learning for students and lecturers, as applied in virtual practicum for Biochemistry. Virtual practicum is generally conducted for 110 minutes for each theme, starting with pre-test...

The process of quality assurance is a strategic matter implemented by educational institutions. Measuring the level of student satisfaction is one method of evaluating them. Therefore, we need to know how the students’ reaction about the innovation of institution Primary Service Strengthening program...

Background: One of the main factors affecting academic integrity is stress. During this pandemic, stressors have increased with online learning. The way to deal with stress is called a coping mechanism. Aims: To identify the relationship between coping mechanisms and the behavior of students in relation...

Clerkship rotation is one of the most important phases in medical education. In this phase, medical students learn authentically under a health practitioner how to treat patients in a full context, and in the process, they will encounter various ethical or professional problems that arise during the...

Background: the outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic causes havoc among many aspects of life including education. In Indonesia, 8 months since the first outbreak the mode of teaching have shifted from face to face problem based learning to online learning. The year 2020 preclinical students are the first batch...

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought changes in medical education. The physical restrictions lead to fully online learning that is new for students. Students failure to adapt to this situation might cause psychological disorders. This study aims to see the psychological conditions of undergraduate students...

Memory is a part of humans’ potential intelligence, which can be measured by using a memory test. Memory test is designed to understand an individual’s ability to repeat given information and to analyze them into complex and valuable information. This study is aimed at discovering the correlation between...

A medical student is hoped to be a leader for himself and to another health professional in the future. Integrity will boost the quality of honesty and strong moral values among leaders. This study aimed to examine the correlation between personal integrity and leadership among medical students. A cross-sectional...

Third diploma graduates in accordance with the Indonesian National Qualification Framework/Kerangka Kualifikasi Nasional Indonesia (KKNI), are at required to have level 5 abilities, one of them is to mastering the theoretical concepts of certain areas of knowledge in general, as well as being able to...