Faculty of Medicine, Public Health, and Nursing (FKKMK) UGM, in collaboration with the Faculty of Pharmacy UGM and the Faculty of Dentistry UGM, held The Virtual Summer Course 2020 program entitled “Interprofessional Health Care on Health 4.0: Managements & Technologies for Improving Primary Health Care in Developing Countries”, from October 26 to November 20, 2020. The Summer Course was deliberately carried out virtually for the first time because it was during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Dean of FKKMK UGM, Prof. dr. Ova Emilia, Ph.D., said the 2020 Virtual Summer Course aimed to increase collaboration between health professionals to improve primary health services in developing countries with a technology 4.0 approach.
According to her, cooperation between health professionals in the management and technology of health services through an interdisciplinary and multi-university approach is essential in improving interprofessional education correlated with each other. “We hope that there will be an increase in the management of health problems in a holistic manner,” she explained on Monday (9/11).
She said the participants and resource persons attending the 2020 Virtual Summer Course came from UGM, UI, UB, VU Netherlands, NUS Singapore, Flinders University Australia, California Northstate University USA, and IMU Malaysia.
Dean of the Faculty of Pharmacy UGM, Prof. Agung Endro Nugroho, said that the theme selection for this summer course was motivated by the current condition of Indonesia, which is still facing various health problems. Such as the high number of infectious diseases that are increasingly widespread and renewable, the high prevalence of Non-Communicable Diseases (NCD), the nutritional status of maternal and child health, as well as the distribution of health workers, and the lack of access to quality health care in rural areas. “Moreover, the Covid-19 infection has become a pandemic,” he said.
The presence of the industrial revolution 4.0, he said, offered a variety of changes and advancements, including health technology that changed the perspective of health services themselves. He believes that the development and innovation of this technology will hopefully reduce problems and support efforts to improve the quality of health services in the present and the future.
“However, the quality of technology mastery remains in the hands of the health resources in it,” he said.
According to him, human resources in the health sector must be more responsive and adaptive in dealing with developments in this era of digitalization of technology. “We strongly support efforts to strengthen prospective health professionals in this era of technological development so that human resources are more qualified,” he said.
Source: https://ugm.ac.id/id/berita/20331-calon-profesional-kesehatan-sebaiknya-melek-teknologi-informasi
