The quality assurance organization in the Pharmacist Professional Study Program, Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Brawijaya (PSPA FKUB) is monitored and evaluated by the Quality Assurance Unit (UJM) of the Department of Pharmacy with the assistance of the Monitoring and Evaluation Team at PSPA FKUB. The main duties and functions of the Monitoring and Evaluation Team in the Pharmacist Professional Study Program related to quality assurance are as follows:
- implementing an Internal Quality Assurance System that is integrated with the Quality Management System and managing the study program database;
- coordinate, plan, monitor and evaluate the implementation of activities in accordance with the work program of the study program;
- coordinating the implementation, monitoring and reporting of the assistance system for the preparation of documents and the preparation of visitation for study program accreditation;
- describe educational quality standards in academic quality documents of study programs;
- submit a report on the implementation of academic quality assurance of the study program periodically to the Head of the Study Program.
The relationship between the quality assurance system at PSPA FKUB and UJM in the Department of Pharmacy, the Quality Assurance Group at the Faculty of Medicine and the Center for Quality Assurance at the University of Brawijaya can be seen in Figure 1 (Organizational Structure of Quality Assurance University of Brawijaya) and Figure 2 (Organizational Structure of the Department of Pharmacy). The implementation of the duties and functions of UJM in the Department of Pharmacy is coordinated and in accordance with the direction of the Quality Assurance Group at the faculty level and the Quality Assurance Center at the university level.
The quality assurance system is a systemic activity to improve the quality of higher education in a planned and sustainable manner. The quality assurance system carried out by PSPA is the Internal Quality Assurance System (SPMI) and the External Quality Assurance System (SPME). SPME PSPA is implemented based on the provisions of LAM PT KES, while SPMI is planned, implemented, evaluated, controlled and developed by Higher Education based on higher education standards consisting of National Higher Education Standards (SNPT) and higher education standards set by Universitas Brawijaya.
The implementation of systemic and structured quality assurance at Universitas Brawijaya has been developed with the existence of the Internal Quality Assurance System (SPMI) of Universitas Brawijaya through Internal Quality Audit (AIM), which is a systematic and independent audit by the internal auditor of Universitas Brawijaya to find out whether the implementation of SPMI is effective and in accordance with the planning carried out by the work unit at Universitas Brawijaya. AIM at UB is carried out once a year to check the conformity between the quality standards set and their implementation by the work unit at UB. Internal audit is a key factor in the management of an organization to be able to provide data that is useful for the purpose of evaluation and improvement and/or increasing the effectiveness of the system. Internal audit is also a fundamental technique whose results are used as one of the input materials for management review activities as required by management system standards