1.Working Group Report (Practice article 2) : Online Interprofessional Education Stepwise Interprofessional Education through Inter-University Collaboration at the University of Tsukuba (1)
The 21st - Term Interprofessional Education Committee ; Ryohei GOTO ; Takami MAENO ; Junji HARUTA ; Miyuki INO ; Satoko ISHIKAWA ; Yasushi UCHIYAMA ; Masatsugu OHTSUKI ; Hirotaka KATO ; Michiko GOTO ; Chisako NAITO ; Takahiko NOROSE ; Kenji YOSHIMI ; Hiroki YASUI
Medical Education 2021;52(6):557-563
For this second report, we divided the efforts of the University of Tsukuba into two parts. In the first part, we introduced the Interprofessional program, an inter-university collaborative educational program between the University of Tsukuba and Ibaraki Prefectural University of Health Sciences. Before the COVID-19 pandemic, this program was conducted using TBL (Team-based learning) in a large conference room. After the pandemic, this was conducted online (using Zoom). The main changes due to the online implementation were the following five points; (1) online faculty meetings, (2) advance distribution of materials, (3) testing using Google Forms, (4) group work using the breakout function, and (5) simultaneous editing using Google Docs. In the future, we would like to examine the possibility of new educational methods while creating innovations that are possible only through online interprofessional educational programs.