UNAIR NEWS “ Few weeks ago, the management of Cardiology and Vascular Medicine Department FK UNAIR received a visit from Institution of Independent Accreditation for Indonesian Health Higher Education (LAM-PTKes). It was a visitation for the departments™ accreditation.
The visitation lasted for three days, starting from July 5-7, 2017. The visitation team conducted field assessment to ascertain whether the form submitted by the Department of Cardiology and Vascular Medicine FK UNAIR is in accordance with the conditions in the field.
Head of Program of Cardiology and Vascular Medicine FK UNAIR Dr.Andrianto, SpJP (K) revealed that from 25 programs in Faculty of Medicine, this Cardiology and Vascular Medicine Department was the first accredited by LAM-PTKES.
“Because it is considered to have a strong vision and missions, then the cardiology program became the first program for LAM-PTKES accreditation.While some other programs will follow, “he said.
Structurally, department tasks are different from the programs™.The department is responsible for the development of similar sciences, while the program conducts educational processes in certain scientific fields.
“For the last few years, accreditation referred more to the accreditation of courses, not departments.If the program has been accredited and the quality is good, then the reputation of faculty will also be good, ” he added.
According to him, preparation made for assessment was quite challenging.Moreover, Dr.Andrianto as Head of Program (KPS) only has 1.5 years to prepare all requirements of accreditation.
This assessment process goes through several stages.First, the process of discussion of what is conveyed in the form on vision and the missions and also the support for what has been done.Second, interviews with alumni, students, and lecturers.The alumni were from Bojonegoro, Mojokerto, Sidoarjo, and Surabaya.
“All questions lead to transparency and conformity between what is written in the form and the reality on the field,” he said.
In addition to the assessment of learning facilities at the hospital.Soetomo Hospital and 51¶¯Âþ Hospital (RSUA), the accreditation team from LAM-PTKES also reviewed the journal publication, financial system and bookkeeping, budget plan, assessment of existing IT facilities such as IT Support, network of the programs and hospital, E-library, and other assessments.
“Through this accreditation, we can maintain the existing quality and standards as well as discipline documenting whatever we have done.This should be a culture so in the future it complies with existing standards, our quality can be maintained from all aspects, ranging from students, lecturers, infrastructure, to the financial system, ” he said.
LAM-PTKES
As mandated, LAM-PTKES is an external accrediting institution for health universities authorized to accredit institutions of educational institutions.This is a an organization legality of an institution.
In the implementation of accreditation, LAM-PTKES has a number of codes of ethics or certain procedures such as when doing counseling, it is not allowed to meet with the facilitator, so the guidance process is done in the network (online).
Furthermore, the relevant institutions are given an opportunity to improve and improve the form within 90 working days.After the form is deemed feasible, then the assessor team will plunge into the field to document all reported data with reality in the field.
When field assessments are conducted, they have a specific code of ethics that has no conflict of interest with the relevant institutions.
“The assessment team should not be alumnus of the institution to be assessed.That is why LAM-PTKES Audit seems more strict than any other internal audit.But the results are more reliable than other external audits, “he said.
The compliance established through this accreditation actually benefits the program itself.Innovations developed from reports deposited to assessors will facilitate accreditation in following years.
“Prodi Cardiology has made an application to group the documents needed, so it can simplify the preparation of documents required for the purposes of accreditation,” he explained.
In addition to external audits, the Department of Cardiology and Vascular Medicine is also undergoing an internal audit by the Airlangga Integrated Management System (AIMS).This internal audit is done annually by entering the data in accordance with the standards specifiedonline.Furthermore, the data will be verified by the Quality Assurance Board (BPM) of UNAIR.Then, the assessment was done to the verified program.
“Judging from the assessment process and observation of the documents that have been presented, the assessor team of LAM-PTKES said that everything is good and the comments were okay soinsha Allahwe get accreditation A. Hopefully,” he said.
Author: Sefya Hayu
Editor: Binti Q. Masruroh
