In Gunma University, the University Education Center and its subordinate bodies, the Educational Affairs Committees established in each school, work in close cooperation. Under this system, the School of Health Sciences of the Faculty of Medicine, Gunma University, implements “teamwork training” as follows:
The operation organization consists of thirteen persons, namely two professors who have overall responsibility of the training subject, and the educational and administrative staff from four departments in the School of Health Sciences. Under this operating body, instructors in charge of student groups are assigned to give instructions on group work and clinical training to students.
We are gaining more and more support each year for the training program, and more than 20 facilities in Gunma Prefecture cooperate with us now. We conduct a post-training survey of facility staff and students to assess and improve the training program.
Steering committee members
| GP steering committee members |
Hideomi Watanabe | Professor of the Department of Physical Therapy (leader of the project/in charge of training subjects) |
|---|---|---|
| Misako Koizumi | Professor of the Department of Nursing (in charge of training subjects) | |
| Tamiko Matsuda | Professor of the Department of Nursing | |
| Tomoko Hayashi | Associate Professor of the Department of Nursing (in charge of the department) | |
| Hatsue Ogawara | Associate Professor of the Department of Laboratory Sciences (in charge of the department) | |
| Yumiko Abe | Associate Professor of the Department of Laboratory Sciences | |
| Yasuyoshi Asakawa | Associate Professor of the Department of Physical Therapy (in charge of the department) | |
| Kiyotaka Iwasaki | Associate Professor of the Department of Occupational Therapy (in charge of the department) | |
| Fusae Tozato | Associate Professor of the Department of Occupational Therapy | |
| Hiromitsu Shinozaki | Professor of the Department of Nursing |
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| Takatoshi Makino | Assistant Professor of the Department of Nursing | |
| Administration staff | Mutsuhito Yomoda | Chief of the Educational Affairs Division |
| Yachiho Mogi | Staff of the Educational Affairs Division | |
| Kyoko Tsuda | Staff of the GP Center (Program Promotion Office) | |
| Mika Hiraide | Staff of the GP Center (Program Promotion Office) |
Governing organization
| Planning and operation of the program | Planning and assessment of the program | Matsuda, Watanabe, and Ogawara |
|---|---|---|
| Management of the facility (GP Center) environment | Koizumi, Tozato, and Hayashi | |
| Document management | Ogawara | |
| Program improvement | Case scenarios | Asakawa |
| Participation of students from the School of Medicine | Watanabe and Ogawara | |
| Joint meeting | Ogawara and Hayashi | |
| Public relations for the program | Symposium | Koizumi, Watanabe, and Tozato |
| Management of websites and images | Abe | |
| Production of leaflets and educational materials | Asakawa | |
| GP navigation | Watanabe and Iwasaki | |
| GP Administration staff | Yomoda, Mogi, Tsuda, and Hiraide | |
Acknowledgement
We would like to express our sincere appreciation to the “Shisui Club”, the alumni association of the School of Health Sciences, for its generous support to the education and research activities across departments of the School.