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

 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.

 This was a descriptive cross-sectional study using an electronic questionnaire given to Supercamp participants before and after the program, including undergraduate and postgraduate medical students. The survey distributed before and after completed the program. Soft skill aspects addressing in this questionnaire were leadership, communication aspect, creativity, autonomy, problem-solving, critical thinking, and problem-solving.

 All the participants aware that Supercamp was a yearly community services program purposed, improving the soft skill of a medical student. Most participants (68%) agreed on the importance of soft skills and ranked the importance of communication, leadership, collaboration, problem-solving, critical thinking, independence, and creativity. Survey result has taken after the program completed showed that 74.4% of participants agreed that Supercamp improves their soft skills, especially in communication, leadership, and collaboration aspect. The participants had also changed their perspective about future profession 58.5%.

 Supercamp is still an effective program to improve soft based on the medical student perspective.