1.Elsa Herdiana Murhandarwati, 1,2, a Rizqiani Amalia Kusumasari2,
Guntur Budi Herwanto3, Anis Fuad4
1 Post Graduate Program of Tropical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine,
Public Health and Nursing, UGM
2Faculty of Medicine, Public Health and Nursing, UGM
3Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, UGM
Abstract. Malaria elimination for Daerah Istimewa Yogyakarta Province (DIY) is targeted to be achieved in 2021. However, decrease of malaria cases for a decade during 2001-2010 caused laboratory personnel at primary health care facilities were not used to identify malaria parasites on blood slides. Strengthening the competence of malaria microscopists become important as some outbreaks frequently occurs since 2012 in Kulon Progo District. At the same time, in other Districts and City in DIY, malaria misdiagnosis often happened. This situation could be worse as to date, mobility of people returned from endemic area outside Java in the districts is high. Another problem identified is quality control (QC) for malaria diagnosis done by the malaria microscopic technicians. External quality control could be conducted by examining slides sent by referral or certified laboratories. In fact, currently there are many health facilities including primary health care facilities that do not participate in the QC scheme for various reasons such as no policies, administration, and costs. The aim of this study is to strengthen the competency of malaria microscopist, Faculty of Medicine, Public Health and Nursing UGM in collaboration with Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences UGM has developed an e-health-based training system. This developed e-health is also intended to ensure the quality of the diagnosis by giving panel test in one of its modules. This e-health training is expected to reduce face to face trainings, funding and administrative barriers caused by the conventional training or QC. Malaria training modules were upload to Universitas Gadjah Mada e-learning platform i.e. e-learning: Open for Knowledge sharing (e-LOK). Modules consisted of theory, demonstration of malaria examination (video), principles in malaria parasite identifications (animations), Pre and Post-tests. The modules could be assessed by participants after registration, and participants could access the modules any times (self-independent learning). Pre and Post-Tests were designed resemble to panel test that could be used to replace conventional QC.
Keywords: malaria, e-learning, modules, competency, quality control
