As a speaker at Masa Ta’aruf or Mataf (student orientation) of Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences of Universitas Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta (UMY) Regent of Kulonprogo Dr. Hasto Wardoyo, S.P., OG. stated that students should be able to align high tech (technical ability) and high touch (non-technical ability). Both abilities are an approach to recognize individual differences influenced by technological and human touches. Hasto also advised students not to be an individualist generation.

Hasto conveyed that the current generation is very individualist so that it is necessary to build a sense of crisis towards students. It would be precarious if the sense is not grown since communication technology nowadays creates boundaries of humanitarian values. “For instance, old-generation doctors may be left out of technology but they have high social sensitivity. On the other hand, new doctors possess good understanding of technology, but their humanitarian values are doubted. Therefore, students should actively get training of morality, ethics, soft skills, empathy, and not being an individualist,” emphasized Hasto on Wednesday (23/8) at Sport Center of UMY.

Hasto added that someone who works as a health worker should serve community well. “To be a good servant needs to have a sense of enthusiasm, high motivation, good characters, integrity, and capability supported by ethics so that the community trust will exist. A doctor should also treat patients holistically and provide quality, sustainable, and humane services. Indeed, a doctor must be brave to make a decision,” he declared.

Moreover, a doctor also need have great optimism to cultivate leadership because she/he will encounter a lot of challenges. “Being competent is not enough. A doctor should have good leadership and can raise public trust. Hence, I expected that university parties can afford students facilities to enhance their soft shills so that they will be proficient and possess high humanity and empathy bases,” ended Hasto.