A study on the core curriculum for speech therapists in the 4 year school after the high school

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Core-curriculum for speech therapists (speech pathologists and audiologists in USA) has not been established in 4 year education in Japanese universities or colleges, because of only ten year history of 4 year education system and 6 years after establishment of the national license. In this study, the core-curriculum for education for speech therapists was formed for 4 year education in Japanese universities or colleges, in relation to recently established core-curriculum in medical and dental education in Japan. In 2003, it was clarified that the total teaching hours of the subjects for the national board examination, teaching hours for each credit, curriculum for liberal arts and general education, and subjects for attitude in clinics are greatly different between universities or colleges for students for speech therapists. In addition, subjects for the national board examination are put without a proper order in the curriculum and the teaching or learning contents and amounts in eac … More h subject and relationships between subjects are not well planed and not well organized. The well balanced clinical pnx i es in hospital and related facilities are difficult because few hospital and related facilities are available for well balanced practice in various working fields for speech therapists. Then, we created OSCE (objective structured clinical examination) for speech therapists and tried three tames OSCE for the third year students, with help as evaluators and simulated patients by the first and second year students and we created a model core-curriculum consisting of about 200 titles. And we had a two day symposium about core-curriculum for speech therapists, inviting 4 professors who are leading speech therapist education in Japan.. There were 17 participants from 52 schools for speech therapists in Japan, in addition to 100 students in our schools. Pwo books to record our results to show the core-curriculum and OSCE for speech therapists and to discuss the speech therapist education in Japan were published and sent to the all related schools for speech therapists. Less