Caring merupakan rasa peduli secara alami yang dimiliki individu terhadap individu lainnya. Persepsi merupakan tanggapan bebas individu tanpa ada intervensi dari individu lain. Sampel persepsi caring terhadap dosen telah dilakukan pengambilan sampel secara acak dari 20 mahasiswa, 8 mahasiswa berpersepsi bahwa dosen telah caring. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mendapatkan gambaran perbandingkan persepsi mahasiswa keperawatan reguler tingkat awal dan akhir terhadap caring dosen di FIK UI. Desain penelitian ini adalah deskriptif komparatif dengan menggunakan total sampling mahasiswa reguler tingkat awal dan akhir. Instrumen yang digunakan adalah memodifikasi instrumen The Organizational Climate for Caring Questionnaire (OCCQ) untuk mengukur tingkat persepsi mahasiswa terhadap caring dosen. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa adanya perbedaan persepsi mahasiswa reguler tingkat awal dan akhir terhadap caring dosen (p value < 0.005, α = 0.05). Evaluasi dosen secara berkala perlu dilakukan sebagai bahan pertimbangan dalam merancang sistem pengajaran basis caring di dunia pendidikan keperawatan.

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Caring is a natural sense of showing affection and concern which is owned by an individual to another individuals. Perception meanwhile is an individual`s free response which is free from other individuals` intervention. Sample of the caring perception towards lecturers is taken randomly from 20 college students, 8 students think that the lecturers have shown caring. This research is aimed to get the depiction of a comparison between freshmen of the regular class` and senior year students of the regular class` perception towards lecturers` caring in FIK UI. The design of this research is a comparative descriptive by using total sampling of freshmen` and senior year students` of the regular class. The instrument used is a modified instrument of The Organizational Climate for Caring Questionnaire (OCCQ) to measure the perception level of the college students toward the lecturers` caring. The result of this research has shown that there is a difference between freshmen` and senior year students` perception towards the lecturers` caring (p value < 0.005, α = 0.05). A periodical evaluation of the lecturer is needed to do as consideration material in building nursing education system based on caring.