2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Miscommunication- induced adverse incidents between Japanese physicians with low English Proficiency and English-speaking foreign patients
| Project/Area Number |
26370451
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Linguistics
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| Research Institution | Osaka University (2016)
The University of Tokushima (2014-2015) |
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Principal Investigator |
Kalubi Bukasa 大阪大学, 医学系研究科, 特任准教授(常勤) (90448340)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
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| Keywords | Miscommunication / Physician / Patient / Adverse incidents / English / Survey |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
Confronted to the difficulty of gathering data on adverse incidents in Japan, we concentrated on patient-physician communication,comparing Japan and Indonesia. Data collected in Japan are insufficient for a comprehensible analysis, but we keep gathering data to complete this work. However,our Indonesian collaborators could collect data from 300 patients and 300 physicians, but it took too long and they sent it this mid-March. So far, we have computed 1/3 of the data, but need to finalize the analysis for definitive results.
To prepare both undergraduate and graduate students to effective patient-physician communication, we introduced the 3-format class, which is a comprehensive approach including listening, reading, writing, small-group and class discussion in each session. With the same view, we also introduced a case discussion in English for residents to enhance their spoken English proficiency. So far, one of of the residents who took our class last year passed the USMLE Step 2 CS.
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| Free Research Field |
Medical English
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