Approach to Educate HACCP in Schools of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmacy

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26670261
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Medical sociology
• Research Institution: Kyushu University of Health and Welfare
• Principal Investigator: Kato Masahiko 九州保健福祉大学, 薬学部, 教授 (50412242)
• Research Collaborator: KONNO Katsuhiko 九州保健福祉大学, 薬学部・動物生命薬科学科, 教授
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: HACCP / 食品衛生

Outline of Final Research Achievements

A questionnaire on hazard analysis and critical control points (HACCP) was conducted among students in schools of dentistry and pharmacy in 2014. The results suggested that students did not have adequate understanding of HACCP. We gave training on HACCP application to pharmacy students in 2015 using commercially available textbooks. After the training, we collected student-written documents and distributed another questionnaire on HACCP. The next year (2016), we then performed the training and evaluation a second time using textbooks that we created ourselves. The number of errors in the student-written documents was higher and the average score on the questionnaire was lower in 2015 than in 2016, suggesting that our textbook is effective. We have revised our textbook accordingly, which we are publishing as “HACCP for Students”.

Free Research Field

公衆衛生学