Clinical competence and professional behaviour under medical graduates’ perspective

• Main Authors: Kusmiati, Mia, Bahari, Rafidah, Suganda P., Rizky, Tursina, Alya, Dewantara, Muhammad Mufti, Saepudin, Muhammad Fikri
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Subjects: Clinical competence; Cognitive ability; Colleges & universities; Education; Humanism; Islam; Physicians; Professional development
• ISSN: 0094-243X; 1551-7616
• DOI: 10.1063/5.0224594

Professional behaviour and clinical competency of doctor reflect a range of personal and interpersonal qualities, attributes, behaviour, commitments, and values. The graduates’ perspective of them is important in helping the university to evaluate its educational outcome achievement. This study aimed to identify achievement of clinical competence and professional development from the graduates’ perspective. We used an analytic observational design with a cross-sectional approach. We gather perceptions of medical graduates of Universitas Islam Bandung by distributing the online questionnaire. A total 206 medical graduates who graduated for at least two years were included in the study. Other criteria were having participated in an internship program, having practiced as a medical doctor either personally, in a government institution, worked as a lecturer, or continued study residency. We evaluated humanism-character of Muslim doctor, cognitive competence, clinical skill competence, professional behaviour, patient management ability, and interpersonal skill aspect. Our work found that they have highly positive perceptions of the Humanism (95.67%). Followed by Interpersonal skill (91.26%), patient management ability (89.53%), professional behaviour (88.47%), and cognitive competence (87.12%). Clinical skill competence was rated the smallest (81.7%) by medical graduates. The aspect of humanism and interpersonal skill are two important factors that were assessed excellent pursuant to graduates. Therefore two these aspects have met the institution’s expectations. There is a need to strengthen aspects of clinical skills and cognitive abilities of medical students while participating in educational programs.