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Benefits of off-campus education for students in the health sciences: a text-mining analysis
Benefits of off-campus education for students in the health sciences: a text-mining analysis
- Source :
- BMC Medical Education, Vol 12, Iss 1, p 84 (2012), BMC Medical Education
- Publication Year :
- 2012
- Publisher :
- BMC, 2012.
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Abstract
- Background In Japan, few community-based approaches have been adopted in health-care professional education, and the appropriate content for such approaches has not been clarified. In establishing community-based education for health-care professionals, clarification of its learning effects is required. A community-based educational program was started in 2009 in the health sciences course at Gunma University, and one of the main elements in this program is conducting classes outside school. The purpose of this study was to investigate using text-analysis methods how the off-campus program affects students. Methods In all, 116 self-assessment worksheets submitted by students after participating in the off-campus classes were decomposed into words. The extracted words were carefully selected from the perspective of contained meaning or content. With the selected terms, the relations to each word were analyzed by means of cluster analysis. Results Cluster analysis was used to select and divide 32 extracted words into four clusters: cluster 1—“actually/direct,” “learn/watch/hear,” “how,” “experience/participation,” “local residents,” “atmosphere in community-based clinical care settings,” “favorable,” “communication/conversation,” and “study”; cluster 2—“work of staff member” and “role”; cluster 3—“interaction/communication,” “understanding,” “feel,” “significant/important/necessity,” and “think”; and cluster 4—“community,” “confusing,” “enjoyable,” “proactive,” “knowledge,” “academic knowledge,” and “class.” Conclusions The students who participated in the program achieved different types of learning through the off-campus classes. They also had a positive impression of the community-based experience and interaction with the local residents, which is considered a favorable outcome. Off-campus programs could be a useful educational approach for students in health sciences.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Program evaluation
Early exposure
Models, Educational
Self-Assessment
Attitude of Health Personnel
Health Personnel
media_common.quotation_subject
lcsh:Medicine
Health Promotion
Social Environment
Education
Japan
Role model
Data Mining
Humans
Medicine
Disabled Persons
Conversation
Text-mining methods
Health Education
Curriculum
Aged
media_common
Medicine(all)
Medical education
lcsh:LC8-6691
lcsh:Special aspects of education
business.industry
Professional development
Community-based education
lcsh:R
Professional-Patient Relations
General Medicine
Middle Aged
Community-Institutional Relations
Health promotion
Community Medicine
Health education
School of health sciences
business
Educational program
Research Article
Program Evaluation
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 14726920
- Volume :
- 12
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- BMC Medical Education
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....e66646f2bcb8697a12cb38cf65f147e0