Integrating Community Services with Learning:An Approach to Soft Skills Development for Medical Students Universitas Padjadjaran

As one of the oldest medical education institutions in West Java, the Faculty of Medicine Universitas Padjadjaran (FMUP) is an integral part of West Java Province to improve the community health status. Supercamp had initiated in 2012 as the translated program from university mission "Science for Society, from West Java to the World for Global Health" which integrated learning with research and community services activities. These were started from Southern West Java (Garut) and then continued yearly to South Cianjur (Cidaun) and South Sukabumi (Jampang Kulon). In 2017, as an effort to participate the acceleration of local health development, especially in Bekasi, Northern West Java, FMUP mobilizes its attention and resources through the event of an integrated curriculum that aligned with the educational pattern that carries the principle of student-centered, problem based, integrated, community, and systematic (SPICES) in collaboration with government, private, and community. At least 1000 students and 300 faculty members from various levels of education and field of expertise will be involved intensively in various health development programs not only focus on health services aspect but also health promotion and preventive medicine effort according to experience learning approach, patient-based, and community settings. Finally, FMUP has prepared its graduates to participate in the development of local and global health sectors as an agent of changes (1). As an educational institution, FMUP realizes that being a doctor, which is the primary to serve in primary health care, is a professional that expected not only academic and clinically competent but also inherit excellent soft skills to serve public society (2). Soft skills and hard skills are essential in the practice of a doctor. While hard skills deal with technical proficiency, soft skills relate to personal values and interpersonal skills that determine a person's ability to fit in a particular situation. These skills contribute to the success of organizations that deal face-to-face with clients. Soft skills as personal qualities, attributes or the level of commitment of an individual that sets him/her apart from other individuals who may have similar skills and experience (3). To apply transformative learning as a way of adult learning, FMUP created Supercamp as one of the examples of the strategy of faculty to seek ways to be more relevant, to bring their knowledge base to bear on community problems, and to offer society leadership which is consistent with broader core soft skill values (4). Transformative learning is a term initially applied more narrowly to the Background & Objective: Supercamp is a multidiscipline community services activity held by UNPAD since 2012 to allow medical students to do community services and inter-professional education integrated with learning to promote soft skills. Soft skills are essential, which are needful for development in various kinds of teaching-learning experiences. The study aimed to evaluate Supercamp program through the medical student perspective as one of the practices for the development of soft skills in a medical student.