Evaluation of the Training Program on Participatory Rural Appraisal Methods Targeting Undergraduate Medical Students from the First Professional Phase.

Background: Participatory rural appraisal (PRA) methods have been acknowledged as important tools to involve members of the community in the process of identification of their problems, the factors contributing to the development of these problems, and ways by which these problems can be resolved.

Materials And Methods: A quasi-experimental study will be conducted in two stages among first professional phase medical students. In the first stage, these students will be trained on PRA methods by the trained teachers, while in the second stage, these students will implement PRA methods in the local community.

How self-regulated learning influences undergraduate medical students to conduct student-centred learning: a scoping review protocol.

Introduction: Self-regulated learning is one of the influencing factors in successful learning. There is a need to understand the factors influencing self-regulated learning in undergraduate medical students in implementing a student-centred learning curriculum. This scoping review aims to systematically identify and map undergraduate medical students' self-regulated learning during student-centred learning implementation and to learn the tools used to measure it.

Opportunity Amid Crisis in Medical Education: Teaching During the Pandemic of COVID-19.

Purpose: The pandemic of COVID-19 had reinforced adaptations in medical education. It was challenging, especially for developing countries where resources were scarce. This study examined the implementation of teaching and learning adaptation during the pandemic in a low-resource country as perceived by teachers.

Predicting medical graduates' clinical performance using national competency examination results in Indonesia.

Background: Indonesia has applied a national competency exit-examination for medical graduates since 2014, called The Indonesia Medical Doctor National Competency Examination (IMDNCE). This examination is administered to ensure the competence of medical graduates from at present 83 medical schools in Indonesia. Although many studies reported their evaluation on medical licensing examinations, there are not many studies performed to evaluate the correlation of a national licensing examination to the graduates' clinical practice.

Stakeholders' Views and Confidence Towards Indonesian Medical Doctor National Competency Examination: A Qualitative Study.

Introduction: Indonesia is a huge country consisting of 33 provinces with different characteristics. There are 83 medical schools across Indonesia with different accreditation statuses. The Indonesia Medical Doctor National Competency Examination (IMDNCE) has been established to control the quality of medical school graduates.

Developing Personal Resilience Questionnaire for rural doctors: an indigenous approach study in Indonesia.

Background: Resilience is recognized as a critical component of well-being and is an essential factor in coping with stress. There are issues of using a standardized resilience scale developed for one cultural population to be used in the different cultural populations. This study aimed to create a specific measurement scale for measuring doctors' resilience levels in the rural Indonesian context.

Defining a "Healthy Role-Model" for Medical Schools: Learning Components That Count.

Introduction: Producing healthy physicians who act as a "healthy role-model" in their environment must be one of the concerns of medical schools today in response to the global movement of "health-promoting university" by the WHO (1995). However, no publications explained the "healthy role-model" in medical school. This study aimed to fill this gap by exploring the definition and characteristics of a "healthy role-model" for medical teachers.

Identifying motivations and personality of rural doctors: A study in Nusa Tenggara Timur, Indonesia.

Background: One of the health issues faced worldwide is the misdistribution of health practitioners resulting in a lack of physicians working in rural and remote areas. We identified the motivations of rural doctors and the personality that contribute to motivation to stay in rural communities.

Methods: A qualitative phenomenological approach was used for which 35 rural general practitioners were interviewed in focus group discussion and one-to-one in-depth interview using a list of structured open-ended questions.

How does feedback in mini-CEX affect students' learning response?

Objective: This study was aimed to explore students' learning response toward feedback during mini-CEX encounter.

Methods: This study used a phenomenological approach to identify the students' experiences toward feedback during mini-CEX encounter. Data was collected using Focus Group Discussion (FGD) for all students who were in their final week of clerkship in the internal medicine rotation.

Large-scale multi-site OSCEs for national competency examination of medical doctors in Indonesia.

Background: Implementing large-scale multi-site objective structured clinical examination (OSCEs) for national competency examination in a low resource country is challenging.

Aims: To describe the first national OSCE for national competency examination of medical doctors in Indonesia and evaluate the reliability, validity, feasibility, acceptability, and educational impact.

Methods: We collected electronically the OSCE scores from 49 out of 73 medical schools that participated to assess reliability and validity.

Educational environment and approaches to learning of undergraduate nursing students in an Indonesian school of nursing.

The aims of this study were to assess students' perceptions of their educational environment and approaches to learning, and determine if perceptions of learning environment associates with approaches to learning. A survey was conducted to collect data from a regional private university in Indonesia. A total of 232 nursing students completed two questionnaires that measured their perceptions of educational environment and approaches to learning.

Meeting international standards: a cultural approach in implementing the mini-CEX effectively in Indonesian clerkships.

Unlabelled: Abstract Background: Medical schools all over the world try to adapt their programs to meet international standards. However, local culture might hamper innovation attempts.

Aims: To describe challenges in implementing the mini-CEX in Indonesia and investigate its effect on students' clinical competence.