Integrated Health Education Architecture

Increasing specialist medical education programs requires cooperation among stakeholders. The government needs to regulate the spread of healthcare centers to guarantee an even distribution of specialist doctors.

A hospital-based specialist medical education system must be realized immediately (Kompas, 30/12/2022) given that the university-based education system is considered unable to meet the need for, or the even distribution of, specialist doctors across the country. This narrative was raised by several media outlets at the end of 2022 in relation to the health minister's statement about the plan to reform the national education for specialist doctors.

There is a strong impression that there is a dichotomy between hospital- and university-based education. However, this narrative is not appropriate when used to describe the complexities of specialist medical education in Indonesia. Hospitals are not only complementary to universities providing specialist medical education, and vice versa – the two education systems are interrelated.