ABSTRACT
At the 71st Annual Meeting of the Japan Society for Oriental Medicine held in August 2021, we performed a special program focusing on education in Kampo medicine, “Pre-graduation and post-graduation education in Kampo medicine for the next generation.” As a part of this project, we constructed the “Common Kampo test” based on the “Standard lectures on Kampo” as a web-based test using Moodle, and then the test was conducted in the form of a web test with 163 participants. The commentary of the “Common Kampo test” was live-streamed and was viewed by many participants, including students, educators and academics from all over Japan. In this paper, we report on the series covering the construction of the web system, creation of questions, answer results, and commentary on answers. With the recent popularization of tablet devices and smartphones, this web-based test system has the potential to become a scientifically based and optimal learning system not only for students but also for medical professionals such as doctors, pharmacists, and nurses.
ABSTRACT
Currently, pharmacists must learn the basic skills and knowledge required to conduct physical assessment (PA) in order to obtain patient information. To address this need, Kindai University Faculty of Pharmacy requires students to enroll in a training course for PA. One component of the course for 4th grade 155 students is the use of Web Test that is designed assess student performance of pharmacotherapy with PA. This paper reports on Web Test results. The 15-question Web Test is conducted on Moodle. The Web Test is administered three times (pretest, posttest (after training course) and follow-up test (two month later)). The averages for each Web Test were respectively, 9.5 ± 2.0, 12.9 ± 0.9, 11.9 ± 2.7, which indicates positive results for posttest and follow-up test (p<0.01, Tukey test). This result suggests that the PA training course is raising student awareness regarding PA.