Universitas Methodist Indonesia

Region: North Sumatra Country: Indonesia

As a religious social movement, Muhammadiyah was a modern phenomenon established by KH Ahmad Dahlan in Yogyakarta in 1912. The modern characteristics can be seen from three main points; its organized movement, its education activities which reflected modern schools at its time, and technological approach used to develop its organization activities, especially its business affiliation.

To put it simply, the technological approach used relied on its accuracy to analyze the social reality and foresee the future challenges. With the approach, Muhammadiyah has been focusing its attention to human resources development since it was founded as Islamic movement, dakwah and tajdid. Its focus has encouraged Muhammadiyah activists to have strong commitment to establish a university in Yogyakarta, the capital of Muhammadiyah.

The desire to establish the university had existed for long time. In many events, Prof. Dr. Kahar Muzakkir shared his idea of establishing a Muhammadiyah university. When the Central Board of Muhammadiyah, Teaching Division, inaugurated Faculty of Teaching and Education Sciences (FKIP) in Yogyakarta on 18 November 1960, the establishment charter clearly stated that FKIP as a part of a Muhammadiyah university.

In March 1981, with the strong commitment of Drs Mustafa Kamal Pasha, Drs. M. Alfian Darmawan, Hoemam Zainal, SH, Brigjen. TNI (Purn) Drs. H. Bakri Syahid, K.H. Ahmad Azhar Basyir, M.A, Ir.H.M. Dasron Hamid, M.Sc, H.M. Daim Saleh, Dr. M. Amien Rais, M.A, H.Mh.Mawardi, Drs. H. Hasan Basri, Drs. H. Abdul Rosyad Sholeh, H. Zubeir Kohar, Ir. H. A. Basit Wahid supported by the Head of Central Board of Muhammadiyah at that time, K.H.A.R Fakhruddin and the Head of Regional office of Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta, H.M. Muchlas Abror, UMY was officially founded.

After a long and winding process, UMY currently has seven faculties; Faculty of Islamic Studies, Faculty of Economy, Faculty of Law, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Faculty of Agriculture and Engineering Faculty.

The human resource development receives the main attention from UMY. Hence, each year, UMY sends 30 academic staff to pursue their higher degree to universities in Indonesia or overseas.

MISSION

To improve the people's dignity to uphold the humanity and civilization values
To play its role as the center of development of Muhammadiyah;
To support the development of Yogyakarta as the area which appreciate the culture diversity;
To professionally carry out the education, research and community services;
To produce graduates with high moral values, sound knowledge and high capability in knowledge and technology

VISION
TO BE A LEADING UNIVERSITY IN DEVELOPING KNOWLEDGE AND TECHNOLOGY WITH THE BASIS OF ISLAMIC VALUES FOR PEOPLE'S BENEFITS

UMY'S GENERAL OBJECTIVES
TO PRODUCE MUSLIM GRADUATES WITH HIGH MORAL VALUES,COMPETENCE, CONFIDENCE, AND ABILITY TO DEVELOP THE KNOWLEDGE AND TECHNOLOGY AS WELL AS BEING BENEFICIAL TO PEOPLE, NATION AND HUMANITY

Faculty of Medicine
As the first medical faculty in Muhammadiyah universities, Medical Faculty of Universitas Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta plays an active role in creating professional medical experts in Indonesia with its unique characteristics Muslim doctors.

Medical Faculty currently has three departements, they are doctor education, nursing science and dentistry. The Medical Faculty is striving to become a distinctive health education institution. It can be seen from its education quality, curriculum, facility, expertise programs and the partnerships developed to reach the faculty's vision, to become a leading medical faculty in Indonesia due to its knowledge and technology and belief and pious and to become the pride of the civitas academica, Muslims and the nation. The paradigm used in this departement lies on the competency-based curriculum for primary care physicians with family doctor approach. In its implementation, a doctor should have clinical skills and be a qualified community doctor.

This departement applies full Problem Based Learning (PBL). The learning activities employ block system and small group discussions (tutorials) which uses scenarios to trigger students independent learning. In addition, PBL is completed with expert classes in multimedia amphitheaters, practicum in biomedical lab, clinical skills in Skills Lab and Mini Hospital with various mannequins, and komuda (medical internship) in many local general hospitals to have early clinical exposure. The profession education is conducted in main education hospitals across Yogyakarta and Central Java.

Nursing Department
The Bachelor degree of Nursing Department of Medical Faculty UMY employs hybrid Problem Based Learning with English diploma. The profession education of Nurse Education Program aims to produce qualified nurses who own emotional and spiritual maturity, hold Islamic values and own knowledge, skills, and attitudes to be prepared to have careers in local, national and international level through adult learning process. Nursing students will be given Basic Life Support trainings. The nursing department graduates will be competent in basic life assistance in emergencies. These skills provide additional values of the graduates to prepare them to enter the job market which usually require these skills.

Dentistry Departement
Founded in 2004, this departement is the first dentistry, which applies full Problem Based Learning with pre-clinical and clinical approaches, and it is quite different from the conventional system. To support the profession education in dentistry, UMY has established a Dental and Oral Education Hospital (Rumah Sakit Gigi dan Mulut) since 2006 in Campus I UMY Jl Cokroaminoto, Yogyakarta. To properly carry out the dentist activities, the faculty provides 50 dental units which in the future is targeted to have another 50 dental units.