en Integrating Community Services with Learning:An Approach to Soft Skills Development for Medical Students Universitas Padjadjaran آموزش پزشکی Medical Education پژوهشي اصیل Orginal Research <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Background & Objective:</strong> 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.<br> <strong>Materials and Methods:</strong> 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.<br> <strong>Results:</strong> 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%.<br> <strong>Conclusion:</strong> Supercamp is still an effective program to improve soft based on the medical student perspective.</div> <strong style="text-align: justify;">Background & Objective:</strong><span style="text-align: justify;">&nbsp;</span><span style="text-align: justify;">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.</span><br style="text-align: justify;" > <strong style="text-align: justify;">Materials and Methods:</strong><span style="text-align: justify;">&nbsp;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.</span><br style="text-align: justify;" > <strong style="text-align: justify;">Results:</strong><span style="text-align: justify;">&nbsp;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%.</span><br style="text-align: justify;" > <strong style="text-align: justify;">Conclusion:</strong><span style="text-align: justify;">&nbsp;Supercamp is still an effective program to improve soft based on the medical student perspective.</span> Collaboration,Communication,Community services ,Medical student soft skills ,Supercamp Collaboration,Communication,Community services ,Medical student soft skills ,Supercamp 62 67 http://edujournal.zums.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-12-1233-1&slc_lang=en&sid=1 Nur Melani Sari Nur Melani Sari nur.melani.sari@unpad.ac.id 5300319475328460013256 5300319475328460013256 Yes Faculty of Medicine Universitas Padjadjaran Susi Susanah Susi Susanah susi_rshs@yahoo.co.id 5300319475328460013257 5300319475328460013257 No Faculty of Medicine Universitas Padjadjaran Yuni Susanti Pratiwi Yuni Susanti Pratiwi yuni.susanti.pratiwi@unpad.ac.id 5300319475328460013258 5300319475328460013258 No Faculty of Medicine Universitas Padjadjaran Astrid Feinisa Khairani Astrid Feinisa Khairani astrid.khairani@unpad.ac.id 5300319475328460013259 5300319475328460013259 No Faculty of Medicine Universitas Padjadjaran Nur Atik Nur Atik n.atik@unpad.ac.id 5300319475328460013260 5300319475328460013260 No Faculty of Medicine Universitas Padjadjaran Dany Hilmanto Dany Hilmanto danyhilmanto@yahoo.com 5300319475328460013261 5300319475328460013261 No Faculty of Medicine Universitas Padjadjaran Yoni Fuadah Syukriani Yoni Fuadah Syukriani yoni.fuadah@unpad.ac.id 5300319475328460013262 5300319475328460013262 No Faculty of Medicine Universitas Padjadjaran