The 2024 joint medical faculty course "Medical Communication" was heldItabashi Campus

On Thursday, September 5th and Friday, September 6th, 2024, a joint class titled "Medical Communication" was held at Teikyo School of Medicine 's Itabashi Campus, combining three faculties and four departments: Department of Medicine, Department Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences; Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences; the Faculty of Faculty of Medical Technology Department of Nursing, and Department of Clinical Laboratory Science.
This class is a multi-professional collaborative education that takes advantage of the unique educational environment of this campus, where medical faculties are gathered and School of Medicine affiliated hospital is located next to it. The purpose is to understand the importance of Team Medical Care and to play an active role in a team composed of multiple professions. Through this class, students will acquire communication skills to accurately convey and share information, and the ability to organize physical and psychosocial problems and find a direction for solving them by making proposals and discussing them. This year, the class was held with approximately 550 fourth-year students.

In the class, students were divided into teams of 7 to 8 people and conducted group work on the theme of "Planning a treatment and rehabilitation policy for a woman who has been diagnosed with cancer and found to have a hereditary tumor," while referring to a dedicated textbook, "Medical Communication, 2nd Edition (Kyoto Hirokawa Shoten, published in March 2022)," co-written by faculty members of our university's Medical Communication Steering Committee.
First, each group read through case information and terminology related to diagnosis and treatment, then shared information as a team using sticky notes and whiteboards to consider future treatment plans. Next, they created a problem list regarding the patient's medical, psychological, and behavioral circumstances, compiled specific treatment and recuperation plans, and presented the plans in groups. By viewing the patient from their own perspectives and offering their opinions, clinical laboratory technician experienced the importance of interprofessional communication and multi-professional collaboration in the medical team.
After the group presentations, the students watched a video of a multi-disciplinary conference on the same clinical case by a team of professionals from the School of Medicine Hospital in the Clinical Auditorium. The students watched the patient assessment and treatment/recuperation decision-making process of the medical team, consisting of doctors, pharmacists, nurses, clinical laboratory technician, occupational therapists, medical social workers, and certified genetic counselors, with serious expressions on their faces, and listened intently while taking notes and comparing the discussions at the multi-disciplinary conference, which was just like an actual clinical setting. In addition, members of the medical team actually took to the stage and participated in a Q&A session. Hearing useful advice directly from a professional perspective was a valuable opportunity to learn specifically about the significance of Team Medical Care and multi-disciplinary collaboration, and future career paths. The members of the medical team offered warm encouragement to the students studying at Itabashi Campus.

Our university will continue to implement interprofessional communication education and curricula that allow for practical team exchanges and discussions, and will continue to promote interprofessional collaborative education across medical faculties in order to cultivate talent who can immediately contribute in Team Medical Care, which has become indispensable in modern medicine.

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