Winning in Five Categories, FK Named Overall Champion at Regional Medical Olympiad 2019

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UNAIR NEWS – The Faculty of Medicine (FK) Universitas Airlangga (UNAIR) should be proud. Twelve delegates of FK UNAIR have succeeded in making the alma mater be overall champion at 2019 Regional Medical Olympiad (RMO).

RMO is a university-level medical olympiad organized by Indonesian Medical Student Senate Association (ISMKI) region IV. Overall, RMO 2019 participants in Region IV came from various universities in Eastern Indonesia, Bali, East Nusa Tenggara and East Java with a total of 21 participating universities.

This year, the competition was held at Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Brawijaya, Malang on July 11-14. “UNAIR became the overall champion with four gold medals and one bronze,” said Abu as one of the delegates to UNAIR NEWS on Sunday, July 14, 2019.

The medals UNAIR won were from first place of Neuropsychiatric category; first place of Tropical Infection category; first place of Uroreproduction category; first place of Cardiorespiratory category; and third place in Musculoskeletal category. Moreover, UNAIR was also a semifinalist in te Digestive category.

This achievement is the result of hard work of the participants, the support and guidance of FK UNAIR lecturers. Abu also said that he and the team used independent learning, exchanging knowledge and joint practice as their strategy.

“The preparation was quite short, only for about one month. Because, FK schedule was quite dense, plus we also have KKN, “he said.

The annual competition consists of three stages. The preliminary round is a multiple-choice test and a objective structured practical examination (OSPE). Then, followed by Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) and Structured Objective Practical Identification (OSPI) for Infectious Diseases category. Finally, the participants were given tests in the form of Student Oral Case Analysis (SOCA) as well as speed and accuracy competition.

In the Final round, UNAIR succeeded in eliminating Universitas Brawijaya (UB), Hasanuddin University (Unhas), Halu Oleo University, Udayana University (Unud), University of Surabaya (Ubaya), and University of Jember (Unej).

FK UNAIR has sent six teams with two people to each team. All team members are FK UNAIR students from 2016 and 2017. (*)

Author: Erika Eight Novanty

Editor: Feri Fenoria Rifa’i

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