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HPEQ Student Indonesian Health Professional Student Organizations Alliance for Education

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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

• To empower and involve students in the planning, implementation,

monitoring, and evaluation of health professional education system

• To foster continuing collaboration among health professions

• 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

2MISSIONS

6OBJECTIVES

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 national-

scale 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.

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.

Research

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.

WE LOVE MAKING FRIENDS

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