An attempt to understand student experiences in interprofessional education

Abstract

This study attempts to clarify aspects of student experiences in collaborative practice by conceptualizing and analyzing subjective phenomena during interprofessional education at University A. A text mining analysis was conducted on assigned reports in 2013. With a focus on the phrase “other professions,” which was the most frequently used phrase in the reports, trends in the use of expressions were revealed through a quantitative analysis of emergence patterns. An investigation of the term associations in the reports showed that one aspect of the students' training experience was the ability to envision the process of dealing with other professions, leading to an increased awareness of one's own profession；and changes to one's concept of medical care teams composed of people from different professions.