2019 Volume 10 Issue 1 Pages 1_89-1_96
Tentative body-powered transradial prosthesis was developed as a component of students’ practicum. Students were involved in the creation, conformity assessment, and operation of the actual prostheses. To understand their learning and degree of satisfaction from experience through practicum, we administered a questionnaire survey to third-year students during the academic year 2015 who participated in the tentative prosthesis development research, which was affiliated with the major occupational therapy center of our school and to third-year students in the academic year 2016 who only experienced the creation of the tentative prostheses through a lecture. From the collected questionnaires, the number of responses to four question items was counted, and a written record of the comments was created us a list. In regard to the degree of satisfaction with the practicum, the responses for “very satisfied” and“ satisfied” totaled to 55% among the students of the academic year 2015 and 80% among those in academic year 2016. Thus, a high degree of student satisfaction was achieved in the academic year 2016. With the established number of lecture hours, the contents through which students could experience the operation increased, which seems to have increased the degree of satisfaction regarding lecture contents.
