dr. Ika Fidianingsih, M.Sc Participates in the Asia Pacific Conference on Medical Education
Singapore (UII News) – It is undeniable that improving the quality of medical education must continue to be improved to create professional doctors and health professionals.
This was conveyed by FK UII lecturer, dr. Ika Fidianingsih, M.Sc, after attending the Asia Pacific conference on Medical Education entitled 12th  Asia Pacific Medical Education Conference (APMEC) & 3rd International Conference on Faculty Development in the Health Professional (ICFDHP). This year's scientific meeting was held on Friday and Saturday 6 and 7 February 2015 to coincide with 16 - 17 Rabiul Akhir 1436 H, at the University Cultural Centre, National University of Singapore, Singapore.
According to the lecturer in Histology FK UII, to become qualified, of course this involves many components including lecturers, administrative staff, facilities, faculty and university management, the students themselves and their environment as well as the hospital and community as practice areas. The breadth of components that affect the quality of education requires continuous evaluation and research of the various components themselves, so that improvements can be made based on existing problems. So that knowledge regarding this matter needs to be known by each component involved by continuing to learn and keep abreast of developments in medical education.
"Therefore, the Asia Pacific meeting or conference on medical education has been held every year since 2004. APMEC is held every year in Singapore. Meanwhile, ICFDHP is held every 2 years. The first ICFDHP in Europe and the second in America, said doctor Ika.
          Explained further by dr. Ika that those who attended this meeting were all interested in the development of medical and health education, from various disciplines such as basic medicine, family medicine and specialties, such as anesthesiologists, emergency neurology, pediatrics, pharmacy, nursing, clinical psychology, communications, journal administrators and majoring in medical education.
"There were 1050 participants in this activity from all over the world (46 countries). With oral presentations of around 100 people and poster presentations of around 200 people. medical School Universitas Islam Indonesia sent a poster presentation from the histology department,†he added.
          The material for the 12th APMEC and 3rd ICFDHP activities include public lectures, oral presentations and poster presentations. And the Faculty of Medicine Universitas Islam Indonesia participated in the poster presentation entitled: CASE-BASED LEARNING & SIMPLE VIRTUAL MICROSCOPIC SLIDES IN TEACHING HISTOLOGY TO FIRST YEAR MEDICAL STUDENTS which was the result of research from Ika Fidianingsih from the department of histology and Diani Puswa Wijaya from Medical Education Unit. Wibowo