Ideal methods for student interprofessional education expected to develop professional human resources who will be responsible for interprofessional work in cancer medical care and palliative care

―Considerations based on the survey results of the Consortium for Home Health Care in Nagasaki―

Abstract

We conducted a questionnaire survey on issues in interprofessional education (IPE) expected to develop human resources who will be responsible for interprofessional work (IPW) in cancer medical care and palliative care, and aggregated and analyzed the issues based on the response results. Responses were obtained from a total of 349 people, including 101 university faculty members, 139 medical professionals, 14 certified care workers, 20 welfare professionals, 48 administrative personnel, and 27 care managers. Certified care workers had significantly higher self-assessment scores for “role” and “team play” as members of a multidisciplinary collaborative team. Dentists had low self-evaluation scores for both “role” and “team play”. With regard to professional human resource development, necessary traits that were expected from individuals for IPW were: “educational ability” for university faculty, “field ability” for medical/care work/welfare professionals, “coordination ability” for administrative personnel, and “collaborative ability” for information and communication technology fields. IPE is expected to develop human resources who will be responsible for IPW, and respondents most often requested that programs should “increase opportunities for participatory learning outside the university”, with university, government, medical, long-term care, and welfare professionals.