Hubungan Akreditasi dengan Mutu Lulusan

Competitiveness in the globalization era has raised the needs for qualified and professional human resources. One of the key indicators of a high quality health service is the availability of professional medics, which obviously cannot be separated from the health education system. The objectives of this study is to investigate the correlation between the accreditation rates of Borang Akreditasi 2000's sub-components and the quality of the health institution graduates. The data used is from the accreditation results to March 2005 and the report of Information System of Health Manpower Education from Specialist of Health Education and Accreditation Division, Centre of Health Manpower Education, Department of Public Health. The study design used this research is cross sectional. The data is analysed by using multiple logistic regression and factor analysis. Proportion of the institution with good quality graduates is 44,1%. Institutions with very good marks on education planning with an adequate on the full time lecturer’s state, possess 0,16 times risk (95% CI: 0,03-0,87), to produce a good graduates compared to the institution with adequate marks on education planning after being controlled by the variables: application of teaching assistance program, periodic report, teaching evaluation, audio visual aids, and infrastructures. Based on the factor analysis, the author acquired 5 factors with a variance of 60,28%, they were curriculum, infrastructure, lecturer, laboratorium, and educational support. The research has shown that the most significant factors for highly qualified health education graduates are the accreditation rates for the full-time lecturer involvement sub-component and the planning of the teaching program sub-component. Between these two, the full-time lecturer involvement is a more dominant factor. From the factor analysis, the administration staff and librarians sub-component has raised a new factor. Also, the laboratory subcomponent does not correlate with other factors. In fact, it has emerged as an independent factor. Key words: Accreditation, centre of health manpower education, quality of graduates, the health institutions