BOOK FAIR SCOME CIMSA FK UIN SH 2020/2021

SCOME CIMSA is one of the standing committee in CIMSA that focus on improving the quality of medical education in Indonesia. SCOME CIMSA is the facilitator of Indonesia’s medical student to reach the access of insights development on medical education issues and curriculum. SCOME CIMSA also played a role as a place to develop the quality of human resources with the aim to create a high quality member that give a real contribution on developing the medical education system in Indonesia.

The four work domains of SCOME CIMSA are medical education system and curriculum reformation, gaining the participation of medical education development, supporting networks empowerment, and medical student opportunities of education and training expansion to improve the quality of its human resources.

A project called Book Fair was held by SCOME CIMSA FK UIN SH on Monday, September 21st2020. Book Fair aimed to introduce medical books and learning media to the 1st year medical students so that they could find the easier way of studying that suit with them. This project is a way to improving the quality of medical student.

Book Fair was held via zoom meeting due to pandemic situation. We gave the information aboutmedical books and learning media such as medical related instagram accounts and youtube channels to the audiences also medical journals. The second and third year medical students help us to share the advantages and disadvantages about the books and the learning media to all of the participants. It was held for 2 hours. We made 12 breakout rooms with 3 tutors and 10 audiences each room. We gave them pre-test and post-test about the knowledge of medical books and learning media. Audience could freely ask the question after the presentation was presented by the tutor. We gave the assessment to audiences before and after the Book Fair. The result of the initial assessment showed that the audiences had not deciding medical books or learning media that suit them. After this event is over, we gave audiences and committees the final assessment. The result of the final assessment showed increases about the knowledge of medical books among the audiences along with the the average points of pretest and posttest from 46 to 86.

Moreover, they say that the project was fun and beneficial so everyone hope this project would be held again for the next year.