Retno Asti Werdhani
Medical Education coordinator in department of community medicine
Title: How community medicine implicates the design and delivery of future medical education?
Biography
Biography: Retno Asti Werdhani
Abstract
Abstract (300 word limit)
It was observed that teaching of the Community Medicine/Public Health subjects have already existed, but without links among departments. Primary Care Doctors are usually considered one of the leaders of health system and they should provide leadership in healthcare delivery as well as health system reform. Therefore, fresh graduate doctors who, in our country, will work in primary care (at least 1 year after graduation), need to understand various aspects of socio-demographic phenomenon to create a bridge between population and health. To create the bridge between population and health, there is a necessity of community medicine in medical education. Medical graduates have limited awareness of ongoing health challenges that health systems are facing. There are also lacks of effective teamwork and leadership as well as low interest in public health/community health among undergraduate students.1
Community Oriented Medical Education (COME) is an approach to medical education, which is focused on population groups and individual persons as well as all aspects of priority of health problems.2There are Five keys strategic direction according to WHO strategic framework for strengthening undergraduate medical education in addressing current health challenges.3Faculty of Medicine Universitas Indonesia has experience on implementing those strategies, one of which is a multi-department (community and clinical medicine) longitudinal and integrated clerkship module.4The module consist of many field practices (hospital and primary care based), and multidepartment personnel (committee and tutors), as well as medical education unit as our advisor.5