A doctor have to possess several areas of competence. One of those competence are Effective Communication where a doctor must be able to communicate well with patients, patient families, work partners, and society from various walks of life. Including Deaf friends.
Deaf patient themselves access health services in different way, so they find it difficult. Some of the difficulties are the difficulty in communicating with medical personnel, Deaf patients visually look the same as hearing people so it can be accessed between hearing people, and the difficulty of access hospital system that can support independent deafness, such as there is no writing about queues and often calling the queue even though Deaf friends cannot hear.
As already mentioned, Deaf friends have difficulty communicating with staff because doctors and other health workers do not prepare themselves to deal with deaf patients, even though effective communication is an important thing in service. If communication is inadequate it can lead to misdiagnosis and presenting therapy. According to Chaveiro, Porto and Barbosa, 2009 Based on the experience of deaf patients, the quality of health services has increased that doctors understand language.
Therefore, SCOME CIMSA UNAIR held BACILLUS (Breaking The Silence for Medical Education with SCOME CIMSA UNAIR) 2021. This activity was held for 3 days on 7, 12, and 14 February 2021. First day, 7th February 2021, SCOME CIMSA UNAIR members learn about Deaf Culture and Daily BISINDO with Abhi Prayaifander, Willy Sidharta, and Elenora Moningka as speaker. On the second day, 12th February 2021, we learned about COVID-19 terms and history taking terms in BISINDO with Vera Maulina and Elenora Moningka as speaker. On the last day, 14th February 2021 we learned about history taking with dr. Helmia Hasan, Sp.P (K) FCCP and practice history taking using BISINDO with The Unspoken Ministry team as facilitator.