Issues of Liberal Arts Education in Medical Health Care and Welfare Universities (13)

—Discussion on Task-sharing among Health Care and Welfare Qualifications in University Education—

Abstract

  This roundtable attempted to add inductive reasoning to the philosophical and essentialist discussion of the issue of liberal arts education in health and human services universities that we have been discussing. In this study, we focused on the current state of assumed competencies in health and human services universities and conducted text mining of diploma policies (DPs). This study discussed issues toward the establishment of a common basic curriculum based on the results of analyzing the trends of DPs at universities in the three fields of pharmacy, nursing, and social welfare.

  At the round table, the characteristics of DPs in the three fields of pharmacy, nursing, and social welfare are reported. Based on these reports, we discussed the possibility of task shift/sharing from the viewpoints of professional practice and curriculum characteristics in each field, as well as the challenges of a common basic curriculum.