UIN Jakarta Mobilizes Medical Alumni and Interns for Large-Scale Community Surgical Outreach

Pondok Gede, UIN Online News – Higher medical education extends far beyond mastering clinical theories inside lecture halls, carrying a profound moral and social accountability toward public welfare. This foundational philosophy was robustly demonstrated as dozens of medical students and alumni consolidated their clinical expertise to execute a large-scale free mass circumcision outreach, celebrating the 69th Anniversary of UIN Jakarta on Sunday, July 5, 2026.

An alumnus of the Faculty of Medicine (FK) UIN Jakarta (Class of 2018), Awan Wicaksana, asserted that the advanced scientific privileges secured by students during university years operate as an intellectual debt that must be paid back to the wider society.

“My core principle is that when we are granted access to higher education, we inherit a collective debt. As intellectuals, we hold a strict obligation to deploy what we have acquired in the classrooms back into the community,” remarked Wicaksana, who recently cleared the Ministry of Health’s mandatory medical internship program at the Balaraja Regional General Hospital (RSUD) and Balaraja Public Health Center.

He emphasized that deploying medical knowledge and physical healthcare assistance to marginalized communities stands as an enduring form of medical altruism. He highly encouraged UIN Jakarta undergraduates to accustom themselves to frontline civic missions early in their careers through humanitarian outreach and public health education.

The spirit of public service driven by the alumni and medical undergraduates directly aligns with the university’s macro strategic vision. The Dean of FK UIN Jakarta, Dr. dr. Achmad Zaki, M.Epid, Sp.OT., clarified that the social intervention which delivered free minor surgeries to 100 children is a direct manifestation of the Tri Dharma (the three pillars of higher education: teaching, research, and civic engagement).

“This operational outreach empirically proves that UIN Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta functions as an inseparable organ of the community, consistently delivering tangible socioeconomic benefits to the public,” Dr. Zaki stated.

The deployment of this intellectual responsibility was clearly visible on the clinical floor. Dozens of future physicians from FK UIN Jakarta assumed critical operational roles. A cohort of 30 clinical clerkship students (koas) operated as surgical assistant operators and physical examiners, while 20 preclinical students were deployed to conduct real-time clinical observations and patient charting.

Muhammad Faiza Ma'ruf, one of the serving clinical clerkship students, explained that their medical civic mission extended far beyond the operating table. The students were heavily integrated as public health educators for the pediatric patients and their immediate families.

“Once the physical examinations and the minor surgical circumcisions are cleared, we deliver rigorous patient education to both the children and their parents. We instruct them on post-operative care protocols, highlighting mandatory hygiene do's and don'ts, and manage the pharmaceutical dispensation of prophylactic medications before the families exit the facility,” Ma'ruf explained.

Through this multi-generational synergy, uniting university executives, hospital administrators, medical alumni, clinical clerks, and preclinical students, the 69th Anniversary of UIN Jakarta bypassed standard ceremonial pageantry. Instead, it operated as a verified testament that UIN Jakarta’s academic community remains active on the frontlines of public health service and global humanitarian engagement.