2021 年 26 巻 2 号 p. 43-49
To learn an importance of team collaboration on disaster medicine is one of key issues in the education for undergraduate students. In the joint curriculum of 4-year students of medical and pharmacy schools at Kindai University, which was organized by interprofessional faculty of both schools, small group discussion class as an educational program was organized. The students were welcomed to answer the questions in the questionnaire survey. At the beginning and end of the program, the students were asked structured questions. They were also asked to make free comments at the end of class. We compared pre and post score in the structured questions and conducted sentiment analysis in contextual mining of the free comments of the students.
Of 253 students, 222 students consented to be enrolled in this survey. They emphasized the importance of team collaboration after the class compared to before the class (P<0.001). Of the free comments, 189 were considered positive to the program by sentiment analysis of text mining. The positive expression such as “way of thinking,” “opinion,” “opportunity,” and “exchange” were related to willingness of students for the program. Of the comments, 91 were considered negative. The words related to negative expressions included such words as “time,” “long,” “group,” and “many.” In these expressions, students indicated the redundancy in the plenary session of class.
The shared learning of disaster medicine with a discussion type program was effective in getting the sense of interprofessional collaboration in disaster medicine on both medical and pharmacy students.
