Abstract Along with population aging, the provision of dental care services at conventional dental clinics and hospitals for elderly people has increased in recent years. Furthermore, the opportunity to provide dental care services at home as well as in long-term care insurance facilities has also increased. In order to provide safe and secure dental medical services to the public, dental hygienists need to cooperate not only with medical and dental personnel but also with other specialists such as nurses and nutritionists. Accordingly, there is an urgent need for universities to conduct such interprofessional education and foster human resources who can improve the quality of life of elderly people.

 At the School of Oral Health Sciences, Faculty of Dentistry of Kyushu Dental University a course on interprofessional education has been provided to second-year students together with the Department of Nutritional Sciences, Department of Nursing, Department of Welfare, Faculty of Health and Welfare of Seinan Jo Gakuin University, and Faculty of Design of Nishi Nihon Institute of Technology. This study examined the educational effects of this course on students by conducting tests before and after the course for all students and a questionnaire survey of the students at the School of Oral Health Sciences, Faculty of Dentistry of Kyushu Dental University in 2017 and 2018.

 The post-test scores were significantly higher than the pre-test scores in both years. In addition, there was a positive correlation between the acquisition of knowledge of interprofessional collaboration and the understanding of other types of occupation in the post-study questionnaire survey.

 This result suggests that this course had a beneficial effect on interprofessional education.

 Abstract The stress status of dental students was investigated during clinical clerkship to clarify how the attributes (e.g., gender and experience of repeating a year) of dental students and the performance during clinical clerkship influenced stress responses. The subjects were 101 fifth-year students of the School of Dentistry, Health Sciences University of Hokkaido in 2016 and 2017. Their stress responses were measured using the Japanese short version of the General Health Questionnaire-28 (GHQ28) before beginning clinical clerkship, during clinical clerkship (at six months), and at the end of clinical clerkship. Their performance was determined using the numbers of treated patients, absenteeism and the scores of mini-exams. A self-reported survey was conducted regarding nine stressors using a visual analogue scale (VAS). As a result, the stress responses remained the same irrespective of the period, although female students before clerkship showed significantly higher values for “depressive tendency” than male students, and those with experience of repeating a year had significantly higher total GHQ28 scores than those without at all periods. The stressors showed different scores depending on gender and experience of repeating a year, suggesting their involvement in the stress responses at each period. In addition, the performance during clerkship was correlated with the total GHQ28 scores. Of note, the number of treated patients was correlated with the stress responses among students without experience of repeating a year and female students at six months of clerkship. Thus, dental students showed different stress responses during clerkship depending on their attributes and the performances during clerkship.

 Abstract To acquire the ability to collect, analyze and evaluate the latest medical information using ICT, as well as techniques and expressions that can be used effectively in accordance with morals in Nippon Dental University, dental informatics practical training is conducted in the first semester. First grade students learn G-suite, Moodle usage, information ethics, educational copyright, touch type acquisition, image processing, data analysis, presentation practice, document creation, ICT learning, remote collaborative work, and collecting dental information via the Internet. In the collecting of dental information via the Internet, first grade students performed five given tasks in the computer room according to the time allocation. Dental information was collected on the Internet using Ichushi Web and PubMed.

 The student submitted one literature that was appropriate for the assignment. In the feedback questionnaire after learning, the collecting of dental information on the Internet was understood by 98.4% of students. 94.6% of students answered that they could coduct the Internet search more accurately. Literature search using PubMed was done by 82.9% of students. Literature search using Ichushi Web was performed by 96.9% of students. This training suggests that the collecting of dental information via the Internet using Ichushi Web and PubMed is effective in improving the awareness of first grade students in dentistry.

 Abstract We are conducting OSCE based medical interview practice on paired students in the undergraduate clinical course by alternate role-play between patient and dentist. To prepare scenarios for simulated patients, a Simulated Patient Scenario Generator, which can output scenarios in various patterns, was developed and the scenarios were used in the practice. In this study, understandability, emotional involvement and length of scenarios were assessed by a questionnaire after the practice to examine the adequateness of the scenarios.

 In the questionnaire, students were asked to evaluate understandability and emotional involvement on a four-point scale, and to evaluate length on a five-point scale.

 Among 54 fifth-year students in the year of 2018, 45 (83.3%) answered that the scenarios were fully understandable, so there was almost no problem regarding the understandability of scenarios. Thirty (55.6%) students responded that they were fully emotionally involved, suggesting that nearly half of the students were less emotionally involved. Responses to the length of scenarios were found to be distributed mainly in “not too detailed nor too simplified.”

 Although some degree of variation due to the understandability and the length of each scenario was found, there seemed to be no serious problems in the scenarios. Nearly half of the students failed to be fully emotionally involved. Students' lack of experience of the situations depicted in the scenarios may have influenced this result.

 Abstract Since 2006, all dentists after becoming licensed are required to receive post-graduate clinical training for more than one year in dental facilities authorized by the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.

 Each clinic on Niijima Island, Shikinejima Island, and Toshima Island in the Izu Seven Islands is certified as a dental clinical training facility by the Nihon University School of Dentistry (NUSD). The training of residents at these facilities is one of the general practice residency programs of NUSD for the purpose of regional dental health and dental care according to the needs of the islanders. Residents are instructed by a trainee one on one for a week. It was reported to the Japanese Dental Education Association in 2007 that this course involving remote island training was very useful as part of clinical training.

 This paper analyzesds the portfolios of 138 residents who participated in remote island training from 2009 to 2018. The portfolios consisted of experience records of clinical training, treatments, self-assessment checklists, and assessment checklists by the instructor. The experience records were analyzed by text mining software. The results of this study suggested that the remote island training for residents provided an opportunity to understand the role of dentistry in the community and to develop personality as a dentist, thus providing a first step in lifelong training.