Judul: Transformasi Pendidikan Kedokteran Unpad
Pembicara: Prof. Dr. Yudi Mulyana Hidayat, dr. SpOG. SubspOnk. DMAS
Pendidikan di Fakultas Kedokteran terus berkembang dari Science Based (Basic Science, Clinical Science), ke PBL (Active learning, Inter-profession) dan sekarang ke System Based (Health System Science, System thinking). Alesan
Coming from a family of three children, I was the only child that was interested in life sciences. My two younger brothers both were inclined to technology, programming and data science and due to the fact that I was able to witness their passion firsthand, I’ve been interested in the ways technology could be implemented to improve healthcare. Thus, I was immediately drawn to the elective program “Data Science for Public Health”.
My initial impression of Data Science was that it mainly involved the organization and analysis of data; which would prove to be correct. However, I was not yet aware of all the uses and ways that it could be implemented.
For this data science elective, naturally we would be taught the basics of data science and the programs or applications we could utilize to conduct it. Thus we were introduced to R and Python, two commonly used languages in data science. Dr. Dwi helped us to download R and RStudio
Today, my team went first to present so we kicked off the day by presenting our project’s case, the prerequisites required for this project, the process, our results and further research. My only regret in this presentation is that we didn’t make an innovation or a new suggested project that can utilize the data science methods we used.
In preparation for the presentation, I studied my part of the project which was the first three steps:
In step 1, our task was to retrieve and organize the data provided to us by external parties. In step 2, we utilized the Tidyverse to get a glimpse of the data, manage the data and gain an overview of it. And finally, in step 2 we created a textual and graphical summary of the date to see if there are any correlations or connections between variables.
I ended up preparing the presentation with my teammates, especially Anggun, to discuss our parts and practice before the performance. I also spent a lot more time with Anggun to discuss the results of the project and how to analyze the graphs to determine the factor we want to focus on.
After sending a request to make a blog to Unpad, I was finally given my account details. After logging in to this very blog, I watched the videos provided to us about WordPress by Dr. Dwi and started to customize my blog to my tastes.
As a prerequisite for my part of the project, I took the course Introduction to the Tidyverse on Datacamp.
In an independent group study session, accordance to Dr. Dwi’s suggestion, we decided to dive headfirst into our Datacamp projects to undergo a trial and error experience instead of learning all the prerequisites first. Of course, we would come across problems along the way, however through encountering such problems and undergoing such an experience we can determine exactly what skills we require and what knowledge we are lacking.
Initially, there were many things that we did not understand. However, the knowledge from the Introduction to R proved to be very useful in helping me navigate all the code, despite having limited knowledge on all the functions. Additionally, the course Unsupervised learning proved to be very useful as some of the unsupervised learning methods were used in this project such as PCR and K-Means.
Despite all the bumps in the road, I believe that it was a good choice for us to go through it together as a group because it allows us to learn from our shortcomings, as well as support one another when faced with a problem. We ended up completing the project together (with lots of hints from Datacamp) in one night, but were left with so many unanswered questions.
Because of this, we decided to divide and conquer by splitting up the chapters so that each of us can have a deeper understanding of our respective chapters, and explain it to our group-mates.
I completed the chapters about Matrices and Factors.
Here, I restarted my Datacamp progress because I regrettably did not take any notes. Now, I started taking notes of the courses onto my RStudio and saving it as R files. I re-did the course and completed the chapters Basics of R and Vectors.
We discussed about the documentary AlphaGo. This documentary was about the computer program AlphaGo, which successfully beat a professional, human Go player.