Study on problems in efficacy and the enforcement of the communication education in the School of Medicine

对于医生来说，与患者、其家属和其他医疗专业人员的沟通至关重要。本研究以文部科学省选定的医学院校为研究对象，探讨沟通教育的实施。我们获得的信息，并进行了半结构化的采访，有关目标，学习策略和评估的每一个程序。然后，根据其目标将这些方案分类。促进和抑制因素也被调查。目标和学习策略是令人难以置信的多样性，但相互关联。大多数评估方法不适合评估沟通能力，对沟通教育课程进行分类可以帮助我们找到最适合医学院校的学习策略和评估方法。

For a physician, communication with patients, their families and other medical professionals is essential. Our research was on communication education program in medical schools selected by MEXT as GP. We obtained information and conducted semi-structured interviews concerning objectives, learning strategies and assessments of each program. The programs were then categorized into types according to their objectives. Promoting and inhibitory factors were also investigated.The objectives and learning strategies were incredibly diverse but are mutually related. Most assessment methods were unsuitable to evaluate communication ability.Categorization of the educational programs for communication may enables us to find the most suitable learning strategies and assessment methods for medical schools.