This report summarizes the Inohana Interprofessional Education （Inohana IPE） program and describes its current achievements and improvement process. Since 2007, a total of 5,679 students have participated in the program. Students who have graduated include 335 from the Faculty of Nursing, 197 from the Faculty of Medicine, 84 from the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences.
　Through Inohana IPE we have created an environment that encourages students’ self-directed learning and the setting of behavioral objectives and have refined the program contents and evaluation method. As the first phase of the improvement, we developed competencies for interprofessional collaboration with 6 components and then created a matrix of learning-achievement goals and 4 learning steps based on the competencies. Furthermore, the number of faculty members participating in the program has increased.
　The two main tasks for the future are to develop an IPE program for nursing and to integrate IPE for basic education and continuing education.

In order to investigate effects of deep sea water bathing on psycho-physiological status, body temperature, circulatory and autonomic nervous system functions, and questionnaires on refreshment and sleep were evaluated in comparison with other 3 kinds of bathing including sham (no water), surface sea water and tap water. The skin temperatures of both tights and lower back were significantly higher for only deep sea water bathing compared with the sham bathing. It was also the case for tympanic temperature. Concerning circularly and autonomic nervous functions there were no significant difference between 4 kinds of bathing. For refreshment and sleep quality both sea water bathing showed higher scores, but not consistently significant differences. However, when taking any kind of bath shorter sleep latency was related to higher cardiac parasympathetic activity during sleep.

In order to investigate the effects of deep sea water bathing on relaxation and daylight sleep in night shift workers, electroencephalography, circulatory and cardiac autonomic functionings, visual evoked potential, biochemical markers in urine and saliva, core body temperature, sleep questionnaires, and mood state questionnaires were evaluated in nine subjects to compare with other three kinds of bathing including sham (no water), tap water and surface sea water. Deep sea water bathing showed better subjective sleep latency for sleep questionnaire (p<0.1) and significantly better vigor status for mood questionnaire (p<0.01) between four kinds of bathing. With regard to the objective data, despite the biggest increase in temperature of eardrum in deep sea water bathing, the highest sleep efficiency and the shortest wake period during sleep in electroencephalography did not reach to the significant level.