Merits of University-cooperation for Preparing the Contents of Clinical Case Discussions

Abstract

  Clinical case discussions based on the problem-based learning are one of the indispensable practices in the course of 6-year pharmacy education program. To perform the effective learning in clinical case discussions, it is important to prepare the cases in which quality and quantity are sufficient for practical use. Under the support of University Cooperation Program from Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, we tried to prepare educational cases from the cases of real patients, and to construct the database system for inter-university utilization of educational cases. In this review, I describe the achievements in our three-year activities.