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Tohoku Medical and Pharmaceutical University, Japan, offers “Early Exposure to Medical Practice” in the first semester for first-year medical students to learn about patient-centered care as well as the real-world conditions and issues faced in community medical practice. Owing to the COVID-19 pandemic during the past two years, we planned and implemented online training, including some disability simulations, which mostly aimed to prevent the spread of infection. The students who completed these training courses reported that the online training had certain advantages over hands-on training ; the two activities implemented were not only effective in preventing infection but also had other benefits that only an online environment could provide. Herein, we report the results and some of the merits of these practices in 2021.
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Introduction: Recently, Escape Rooms have been included in educational content. Method: An Escape Room style class was conducted for first-year medical students to review previously learned content and to learn how to collaborate with others. The class was 70 minutes in total, 45 minutes of that was spent playing games. These included not only puzzles and riddles but also simulation-based tasks such as BLS. Multi-ending style was also used to motivate students. Result: In addition to the difficulty of making stories and puzzles, the management of staff and organizing of the games were also challenging for the class. Discussion: There are few comprehensive studies on educational practices using escape rooms. Research is necessary to consider effective and practical training methods.
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A first-year experience class for medical students was conducted to show a whole curriculum structure and to introduce some study skills through a few group work activities. Although the class was originally lecture-based, it was redesigned with active learning methods like group discussion, peer-review experience and peer-to-peer presentation using short articles. Students were asked to submit a learning record note and received feedback via Moodle. First-year students are expected to identify milestones toward the achievement of core competencies during the 6-year undergraduate curriculum and acquire basic skills leading to the development of various learning strategies. Learning outcomes of this attempt should be investigated for years and the class needs to be improved based on the evaluation.