The Relationship Between the Level of Students Satisfaction Towards the Primary Service Strengthening Program with UKMPPD Graduation

Abstract

The process of quality assurance is a strategic matter implemented by educational institutions. Measuring the level of student satisfaction is one method of evaluating them. Therefore, we need to know how the students’ reaction about the innovation of institution Primary Service Strengthening program and the relationship with the UKMPPD results. Methods: This research is a descriptive analytic study with a quantitative design with total sampling. The participants were the students in the clinical phase who take the medical professional program student competency test (UKMPPD) batch I (February 2020). All participants were then asked to fill out a questionnaire about satisfaction with the primary service strengthening program implemented in the institution. The programs are small group learning (SGL) in the first week of each stage, clinical skills training (CST), OSCE section in each department and expert lectures (based on SKDI). Then we analyzed based on the graduation of UKMPPD. Results: The number of samples in this study were 68 participants. The highest level of student satisfaction with the Primary Service Strengthening Program at UMI's Faculty of Medicine was obtained (100%), namely tutorial in the Small Group Learning (SGL) program, Clinical Skill Training (CST), OSCE Section and Expert Lectures/seminar. There is a relationship between the level of student satisfaction variable towards the Primary Service Strengthening Program and the UKMPPD Graduation Result in the batch I (February 2020 Period) at FK UMI with a significance value <0.05 and a positive direction. Conclusion: It is found that the relationship between the two variables has a high significance level, so we suggest that the program will continue with improvements.