UNS — An amazing achievement was again made by students of Universitas Sebelas Maret (UNS) Surakarta. This time, it came from the Medicine Education Program, Faculty of Medical Science (FK) UNS. Just now, Awalil Rifqi Kurnia Rahman, who currently is in his second semester, won 2nd Place in the Indonesian Medical Students Training and Competition (IMSTC) 2022.
Awalil Rifqi Kurnia Rahman, often known as Rifqi, managed to win 2nd Place in the Ideathon competition after defeating many rivals from various universities in Indonesia. This competition was organized by the Asian Medical Student Association (AMSA), University of Indonesia (UI), on February 24, 2022.
He explained that the competition consists of three stages. For the first stage, each participant must submit an abstract.
“Then, 25 of the best abstracts were selected, and 5 (five) of them were entitled to be team leaders through motivation letters sent together with abstracts. Thank God I am entrusted to be the team leader. It was quite hard, because of all the chairman, my CV was the most simple with limited experience. Team members will choose the chairman based on the CV submitted, and vice versa,” he explained to uns.ac.id, Tuesday (22/3/2022).
Rifqi is incorporated in a team consisted of participants from FK Universitas Swadaya Gunung Jati and FK Universitas Pelita Harapan (UPH). Thanks to the solid cooperation, they were crowned 2nd Place. “We proposed an app called ‘Get Your Hero,’ a 3.0 web-based Emergency Installation (ER) Physician Telemedicine app for accident management powered by 5G networks for more effective and integrated pre-hospital care. Through the problems discussed in the finals session, we found problems in emergency services. This solution was proposed following the literature studies integrated to the latest technology,” he explained.
The second-semester student admitted that he did not expect it when he and his team were announced as the runner-up. “Initially, we are shocked because I think other competitors’ idea is much better. Hopefully, in the future, I can contribute more to the healthcare sector in Indonesia through innovation and other ideas,” concluded Rifqi. Humas UNS
Reporter: Bayu Aji Prasetya
Editor: Dwi Hastuti
