What do medical students learn from home care practice?
10.11307/mededjapan.43.361
- VernacularTitle:医学生は訪問看護同行実習で何を学んでいるのか
- Author:
Fumiko Okazaki
;
Mariko Nakamura
;
Osamu Fukushima
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
undergraduate medical education;
community-oriented medical education;
interprofessional education;
professionalism;
communication
- From:Medical Education
2012;43(5):361-368
- CountryJapan
- Language:Japanese
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Abstract:
Objectives: This study aimed to investigate what third–year students of the J University School of Medicine had learned in home care practice.
Methods: We analyzed the students’ reports and focused on the description of the learning for the practice. We extracted the category of learning using qualitative content analysis.
Results and Conclusion: The core categories we extracted from the analyses were: 1） characteristics of home healthcare, 2） patients, 3） families, 4） home–visiting nurses, 5） medical treatment teams, 6） frank remarks of medical students and physicians, and 7） necessities as a physician. The frank remarks of medical students and physicians included the distrust of physicians and the hopes of medical students. The students gained valuable experience from this practice. In particular, learning about the distrust of physicians and the hopes of medical students may be difficult without such practice.
