title: Applying conscientiousness index: a tool to explore medical students' professionalism in Indonesia.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  This study was aimed to describe lecturers' perspective concerning the suitable Conscientiousness Index (CI) components and implementations, as well as to compare the CI scores in year 1-4 student batches.
  
  
  METHODS
  Components were formulated from objective measurements based on interviews with 12 faculty members. The components include: attendance, adherence to rules, evaluative feedback submissions, performance in assignments and clinical skills, assignment submissions, volunteerism, accomplishments, and general misconducts. The scores were collected from year 1-4 pre-clinical medical students (N=144) during the first semester of 2014-2015. Final interviews were conducted with 9 faculty members. Quantitative analysis was performed using Kruskal-Wallis and Mann-Whitney test. Qualitative analysis was performed using content analysis.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Using Kruskal-Wallis test, significant difference was found in the CI scores among all years (p=0.000). Post-hoc analysis using Mann-Whitney test showed significant difference in all years except year 1 and 4 (p=0.388). Of the 9 lecturers interviewed during the second interviews, 7 endorsed the importance of CI, while 2 doubted its applicability.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Due to the unique characteristics of each block, our system had not been able to conduct a balanced CI evaluation, as compared to the original research. We concluded that the implementation of CI would be highly dependent on the faculty members, with their commitment as the main pre-requisite. We hope to involve academic advisors as CI evaluators and improve our student-centered learning for future assessments. Further study is needed to investigate the longitudinal implementation of CI.
authors.affiliation: School of Medicine, Atma Jaya Catholic University of Indonesia, Indonesia.
authors.forename: Wolter Prakarsa
authors.initials: WP
authors.lastname: Jaya
authors.affiliation: Medical Education Unit, School of Medicine, Atma Jaya Catholic University of Indonesia, Indonesia.
authors.forename: Elisabeth
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Rukmini
mesh_terms: D000041:Absenteeism; D001288:Attention; D002983:Clinical Competence; D004521:Educational Measurement / Q000379:methods* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D005246:Feedback; D019983:Guideline Adherence / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D007214:Indonesia / Q000453:epidemiology; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D018794:Problem-Based Learning; D028743:Professional Misconduct / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D000068616:Professionalism / Q000592:standards; D013337:Students, Medical; D014838:Volunteers / Q000706:statistics & numerical data
keywords: assessment; conscientiousness index (ci); medical education; professionalism