Health Professional Global Network Videoconference was held.
Date: 30 March 2010
Venue: School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Showa Campus
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Attended the 5th Council of the Japan Association for Interprofessional Education (JAIPE) in Academic Year 2009 (Watanabe and Koizumi).

A Visit to the World Health Organization/WHO (Geneva, Switzerland) (Watanabe, Ogawara, Lee, Yasukawa, Ito)

Attended the first Council of the Japan Association for Interprofessional Education (JAIPE) in FY 08 (Watanabe and Koizumi)

Organized the open symposium [Assessment of the Interprofessional Education(IPE)] (The Showa campus of the Gunma university)   

Symposium poster
An article in the Jyomo Shinbun
An article in the Nikkei Shinbun
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Organized the public symposium “Assessment of the Interprofessional Education”Poster

The distinct GP symposium on 20 December 2008 (The Showa campus of the Gunma university)

Organized the open symposium [Assessment of the Interprofessional Education(IPE)]
Symposium poster
An article in the Jyomo Shinbun
An article in the Nikkei Shinbun

The report of the outcomes of the symposium
The School of Health Sciences, Gunma university organized the second symposium on [Assessment of teamwork education] on 20 December (Sat) 2009 at the Millennium Hall of the said university
Eight JIPWEN member universities presented their IPE programs and educational outcomes. During and after the presentationｓ, an intensive exchange of opinions took place on IPE educational effects.

They reported a wide range of programs, including a research on attitude modification in students before and after the IPE program, a qualitative analysis of student opinions and their responses to interviews, and educational assessment corresponding to the agenda of the IPE curricula set for each year.
The presentations and discussions among participants highlighted various key factors that could optimize the IPE programs. Factors included the necessity to introducing new evaluation methods such as internationally standardized ones, the importance of a follow-up research about attitude modification sustained in graduates to assess the sustainability of IPE effects, and the necessity to conducting a research about perceptions of academic staff involved in the IPE programs.
Through the presentations and discussions, I renewed my mind to make efforts to evaluate the teamwork training program of my university more objectively and universally.

Thanks to the symposium, both academic staff and participants were able to obtain deeper understanding of IPE assessment methods. ( reported by Kiyotaka Iwasaki)

Visited the World Health Organization (Geneva, Switzerland) (Watanabe, Koizumi, Tozato, Hayashi, Makino, Yasukawa, Ito)
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Attended the first scientific meeting of the Japan Association for Interprofessional Education (JAIPE) (Watanabe, Koizumi, Ogawara, Asakawa, Tozato, Hayashi)

Attended the international IPE seminar at the Saitama prefectural university (Watanabe, Koizumi, Ogawara, Asakawa, Tozato, Hayashi)

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Attended the IPW education workshop (at the Kobe International Conference Center) sponsored jointly by the School of Medicine, Kobe university, and the Forum of Kinki team medicine (Watanabe)

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Attended the ninth preliminary committee to the formation of the Japan Association for Interprofessional Education (JAIPE) at the Tokyo campus of the Niigata University of Health and Welfare (Watanabe)

Attended the eighth preliminary committee in the formation of the Japan Association for Interprofessional Education (JAIPE) in Tokyo (Koizumi)

Visited the Kobe University (Naya campus) and participated in the [IPW-Day 2008] (Ogawara, Hirade, Munakata, Yoshioka)

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Organized the open symposium [Assessment of the Interprofessional Education(IPE)] (The Showa campus of the Gunma university)   

Symposium poster

An article in the Jyomo Shinbun 

An article in the Nikkei Shinbun 

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Attended the seventh preliminary committee to the formation of the Japan Association for Interprofessional Education (JAIPE) at the Tokyo campus of the Niigata University of Health and Welfare (Watanabe)

An interview by the University Education and Research Co. (Watanabe, Abe, Yomoda)

A Visit to the World Health Organization/WHO (Geneva, Switzerland) (Watanabe, Koizumi, Tozato, Hayashi, Makino, Yasukawa, Ito)

A total of seven JIPWEN members, namely six from the Gunma university and one from the Niigata university of Health and Welfare, visited the WHO. They met with staff of the Human Resources for Health (HRH) department, discussed the health workforce crisis prevailing all over the world and measures to cope with the crisis, obtained information on the strategies and endeavors of the international community, and exchanged opinions on roles of the JIPWEN. Through a series of intensive discussions, WHO recognized the values and possible contribution of the JIPWEN to WHO activities. At the end of the visit, a plan of collaborative activities between the HRH and JIPWEN was developed for the next two years (2009-2010).

＊ The pictures show meetings with the staff of the Global Health Workforce Alliance (GHWA) and staff of divisions of the HRH department. There is also a commemorative photo with the Dr Hiroki Nakatani, Assistant Director General of the WHO, after the meeting with him. (Permissions were obtained on taking pictures prior to meetings.)

An interview by the Gunma Keizai Shinbun (Yomoda)

Organized the 1st conference of the Japan Internprofessional Work and Education Network at Mebashi

Organized the joint public meeting for “teamwork training” in 2008 (Maebashi)

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Visited the Faculty of Pharmacy of Keio University (Watanabe and Hayashi)

Selected members of the student governing body

• Department of Nursing: Rie Kasukawa (Group 19), Sayaka Kojima (Group 7), Yoshinori Fujisawa (Group 16), and Ryuichi Munakata (Group 1)
• Department of Laboratory Sciences: Kanae Iwahara (Group 10) and Hiroki Machida (Group 14)
• Department of Physical Therapy: Yuka Enomoto (Group 8)
• Department of Occupational Therapy: Reina Akino (Group 4) and Yutaro Kobayashi (Group 15)

Made a presentation, “The present status of the GP Project and future perspectives – Simulated training for students in various departments to provide interprofessional work ”, at the 9th Health Sciences Education Workshop in 2007 of the School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Gunma University (Watanabe, Koizumi, Matsuda, Hayashi, Ogawara, Abe, Asakawa, Iwasaki, and Tozato)

Attended the 9th meeting of the Japan Academy for Comprehensive Rehabilitation (Tozato)

Visited Sapporo Medical University (Dobashi, Abe, and Tsunoda)

Visited Niigata University of Health and Welfare (Watanabe)

Attended the “Gendai GP” (Contemporary Good Practice) Symposium in Chiba University (Koizumi and Iwasaki)

Attended the University Education Reform Forum in Yokohama (Matsuda, Tozato, Abe, Tsunoda, and Yomoda)

Held a public symposium, “Education for multidisciplinary care and networks”. (Maehashi)  

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Visited Kobe University. (Dobashi, Watanabe, and Shimoda)

Visited the Jikei University. (Watanabe and Tozato)

Visited Saitama Prefectural University. (Koizumi and Ogawara)

Visited Kitasato University. (Koizumi and Watanabe)

Opened a website.

Attended the education workshop (Kobe International Conference Center) of the Faculty of Medicine/Health Science, Kobe University School of Medicine. (Tozato)

Conducted a questionnaire survey of graduates on teamwork training. (Ogawara)

Participated in a symposium of Saitama Prefectural University (Watanabe and Abe)

Attended the GP in Sapporo (Watanabe, Asakawa, and Ishimori)

Organized a joint meeting for clinical training (Maebashi)