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

对医生来说，与病人、家属和其他医疗专业人员沟通是必不可少的。我们的研究对象是被MEXT选为GP的医学院校的沟通教育项目。我们收集信息并进行半结构化访谈，内容涉及每个项目的目标、学习策略和评估。然后根据他们的目标将这些项目分类。促进和抑制因素也进行了研究。目标和学习策略非常多样化，但又相互关联。大多数评估方法不适合评估沟通能力。对医学院校的交流教学项目进行分类，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.