2006 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Effective Use of Information Technology for Supporting PBL Program in Medical Education
| Project/Area Number |
16590424
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Medical sociology
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| Research Institution | Kochi University |
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Principal Investigator |
KURIHARA Yukio Kochi University, Faculty of Medicine, Professor, 医学部, 教授 (00215071)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
KITAZOE Yasuhiro Kochi University, Faculty of Medicine, Professor, 医学部, 教授 (90112010)
OKUHARA Yoshiyasu Kochi University, Faculty of Medicine, Associate Professor, 医学部, 助教授 (40233473)
WATABE Teruaki Kochi University, Faculty of Medicine, Assistant Professor, 医学部, 助手 (90325415)
NAKAJIMA Noriaki Kochi University, Faculty of Medicine, Assistant Professor, 医学部, 助手 (00335928)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2004 – 2006
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| Keywords | Educational Engineering / Information Engineering / Information System / Medical Education Supporting / PBL |
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| Research Abstract |
In this study we investigated how to use the information technology (IT) for PBL programs to be effectively functioning in medical education. We made a surveillance study of PBL practice and desired IT-use for PBL programs at Japanese medical schools. We found the following: 1) staffs supporting PBL practice at Japanese medical schools were much less than those at medical schools in the United States and European countries, 2) the organization of various committees managing PBL programs was not well established, 3) IT-use was not well recognized to be effective to enhance PBL practice, 4) the composition of learning materials for PBL tutorial was not well organized and 5) a sharable database system of learning materials among Japanese medical schools was desired by many medical educators. Since the development of a sharable database system in a whole country requires strong supports of many medical schools, we again made another surveillance study of the development of database system. We found that even many medical educators recognized the importance of the sharable database system of learning materials for PBL practice, but that its urgent development was not supported. We firstly have to develop a mode system with collaboration of several schools and extend the collaboration to a whole country.
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