1)A workshop to promote interprofessional health–care collaboration in the community is reported.
2)The three topics discussed were: "the needs of an interprofessional network in the community," "barriers that can prevent the promotion of an interprofessional network in the community," and "strategies to overcome the barriers."
3)The critical issues identified were, communication, information sharing, and leadership. Working to improve the health–care system and clarifying and promoting the significance of an interprofessional network were also identified as critical issues.

  In scenarios developed by a multidisciplinary faculty for interprofessional education, practical problems that emerged included: “medical incident” and “shortage of medical resources” from the perspective of patient and families,” and “information sharing,” “evaluation and feedback,” and “insufficient feeling of accomplishment” from the perspective of health-care professionals. Discussions identified “interprofessional collaboration,” “mutual understanding for professionalism,” and “embodiment of professional culture” as key words for problem solving. Finally, scenarios were developed in the hospital, home-care, nursing, or community care settings that referred to 2 themes, “end of life” and “dementia.” Pilot case studies performed with health care professionals demonstrated the utility of the scenarios and the effectiveness of interprofessional education.