Student
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HPEQ Student
Indonesian Health Professional Student Organizations Alliance for Education
ONCE UPON A TIME
HPEQ Student is a network of Indonesian health professional student organizations focusing on issues related to health professional education quality. Initiated by 8 student organizations from 7 health professions, the network was established at the “Indonesian Health Professional Students Summit” in Jakarta, November 19th 2010. The summit itself was held to answer the need for a proper opinion channeling and aimed to create a forum for Indonesian health professional students to convey their aspiration regarding their education system. The summit was then ended with the signing of the Indonesian Health Professional Students’ Declaration on Students’ Role in Health Professional Education, addressing two main points: student participation in education governance and interprofessional education.
TRANSFORMING MIND
The declaration resulted from the summit was not merely words read out loud to impress those who hear them. It was a manifesto of the spirit of togetherness among health professional students and a big step of hope to make changes in students’ role in education governance. For the students, the declaration changed their way of seeing themselves: they are no longer an object, but instead, the agent of change of their own education. It has also transformed the way we see health professionals: we are one big team! And thus, the declaration has attracted many experts in Indonesian health professional education, including the Directorate General of Higher Education, the Ministry of Education and Culture. Through the Health Professional Education Quality (HPEQ) Project, in 2011 the government started to support programs and activities of the student network, which was later known as HPEQ Student.
WAY TO THE TOP
2MISSIONS • •
To empower and involve students in the planning, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of health professional education system To foster continuing collaboration among health professions
6OBJECTIVES • •
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To get data on students’ participation in health professional education governance To advocate the making of regulation that ensures students’ participation in the planning, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of health system at institutional and national level To build students’ capacity in health professional education To create a scheme for students’ participation in accreditation system To create activities related to interprofessional education to initiate interprofessional collaboration among health professional students To provide opinion channeling related to learning methods, competency exam, and interprofessional education
THE FIRST BUDS OF SPRING
Year 2011 was the critical phase for HPEQ Student. Like a seed struggling to bud, the students faced dry soils and hard rains. But with the support from the student organizations and HPEQ Project, HPEQ Student was finally able to reach a success by conducting two nationalscale studies which were very crucial for their advocacy. The first study, which was on students’ participation in the improvement of health professional education, was conducted online, introducing the power of technology to channel students’ aspiration. The second, which was on interprofessional education, managed to provide the first national evidence on students’ and teachers’ perception and readiness for interprofessional education. The two studies were then presented on the 2nd HPEQ International Conference and gained interests from many.
At the conference, HPEQ Student also launched the book “What Health Professional Students Ought to Know" written in an easily understandable language to talk to students about the quality of their education. The book described the shortcomings of Indonesian health professional education system, explained what the students could do for improvements, and encouraged the readers to participate. The book also emphasized the importance of student advocacy at the local level and the need for implementing interprofessional education. In one session of the conference, HPEQ Student held a small working group discussion to capture the aspirations of 200 Indonesian health professional students to find out what problems existed in the education system of the seven professions. The result was a list of problems and recommendations to be presented to the stakeholders during an advocacy process later on.
Research
GROWING STRONG In 2012, the HPEQ Student has grown bigger. With more students being aware of its existence, the network had more manpower to carry out new programs. HPEQ Student then set out five areas of work, which include Advocacy, Research, Media and Campaign, Training, and Monitoring and Evaluation.
ADVOCACY Stakeholder mapping
To set up strategies for advocacy, HPEQ Student facilitated student organizations to assess potential stakeholders and map them according to their power and interest. Launching of Guideline on Student Advocacy Guideline on Student Advocacy was created to help student organizations advocating in a proper and powerful way. The guideline also showed how student organizations could convey their messages with the facilitation of HPEQ Student. It also explained the process one should go through when trying to advocate a message to stakeholders. Meeting with associations of health professional institutions
The meeting with the associations of health professional institutions will be held at the end of the year, to introduce HPEQ Student programs and students’ aspirations for the improvement of Indonesian health professional education.
RESEARCH Research publication
This year, HPEQ Student started to write scientific articles to publish the studies conducted previously. The articles on “Students’ Participation in Health Professional Education Governance in Indonesia” and “Indonesian Health Professional Students’ Perception and Readiness toward Interprofessional Education” will also be presented in national and international conferences to advocate students’ needs and gain support from stakeholders. Launching of Online Journal of Indonesian Health Professional Students To accommodate the need of a scientific journal to publish the work of Indonesian health professional students, student organizations involved in HPEQ Student, with the support of the Ministry of Education and Culture, will launch an online journal labeled BIMKES in October 2012.
MEDIA & CAMPAIGN Website
HPEQ Student will launch a website (www.hpeqstudent.org) in October 2012 to spread updates on the improvement of health professional education in Indonesia and share the latest information about HPEQ Student’s activities Essay competition This year HPEQ Student held the 2nd Essay Competition on Health Professional Education, and has selected 20 winners to join the 3rd HPEQ Conference in Jakarta, November 2012. Twitter and Facebook HPEQ Student utilizes Twitter and Facebook as the main social medias to interact with health professional students all over Indonesia. HPEQ Student’s Twitter account is @hpeqstudent, and the fanpage www.facebook.com/hpeqstudent.
TRAINING Scientific writing training
The training on scientific writing was aimed to build students’ capacity in writing a good scientific publication and to encourage them to submit their articles to scientific journals. The training was conducted online, broadcasted through a video conference system and live streaming. Advocacy training The advocacy training will be carried out at the 3rd HPEQ Conference and will be given to potential future leaders from 10 health professional students’ organizations.
MONITORING & EVALUATION All HPEQ Student activities are monitored by a special monitoring and evaluation personnel. The personnel is responsible for documenting the progress of HPEQ Student activities, giving feedbacks, and conducting pre- and post-tests for the trainings.
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HPEQ Student is a network of Indonesian health professional students’ organizations which aims for the improvement of Indonesian health professional education quality. HPEQ Student is open for critics, suggestions, and questions from you, your colleagues, or anybody! Contact us through: Email : contact@hpeqstudent.org Twitter : @hpeqstudent Facebook : www.facebook.com/hpeqstudent Website : www.hpeqstudent.org