Table 1 Overview and some examples of off-campus classes
From: Benefits of off-campus education for students in the health sciences: a text-mining analysis
Category | Types -times | Example | Location | Number of participants | Contents |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Contact with local middle-aged and elderly people | 4 types 6 times | Exercise class for middle-aged people | City gym | 5 | Participation in the class and experience exercises with middle-aged people |
Exercise class for elderly people | Community center | 3-5 | Experience to provide some exercises for elderly people with staffs | ||
Contact with disabled people living in the local com munity | 3 types 5 times | Supporting project for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) patients and family members | Public installation | 8-10 | Participations and experiences in the event supported by the local community for ALS patients and family members |
Supporting project for cancer patients and family members | Public installation | 8-10 | Participations and experiences in the event supported by the local community for cancer patients and family members | ||
Group activities with disabled children | Disabled child education instruction | 2-3 | Participations and experiences in the activities supported by the local community for mentally and physically disabled children and family members | ||
Group rehabilitation project for persons with higher brain dysfunction and their family members | Community center | 3-5 | Participations and experiences in the rehabilitation activities for persons with higher brain dysfunction and their family members. | ||
Participation in interventions to promote events conducted in the community | 2 types 2 times | Interventions in health promotion and disease prevention events run by the local government | Community hall in the city, etc… | 5-8 | Participation in events which showing and promoting some interventions or activities for the community-dwelling persons in the community, and experience to run the events with staffs. |
Study and experience of activities of healthcare professionals working in the community | 3 types 3 times | Study of care managers’ work contents | Care managers’ working places | 2-3 | Following a care manager and studying her or his work contents in the community. |
Experience of medical checkups for high school baseball players | Practice ground of the high school | 3-5 | Following a physiotherapist and experiences in some measurements, and studying her or his work contents for sports injury prevention in the community. | ||
Conducting stretching exercises in the workplace | Working place | 3-5 | Following a physiotherapist and experiences in some exercise instructions, and studying her or his work contents for working dysfunction prevention in the community. | ||
Organizing student-led seminars for community residents | 2 types 3 times | Stretching exercise classes | Public installation | 3-5 | Experiences to make stretching exercise programs for community-dwelling persons and instruct them. |
Urinary incontinence prevention classes | Public installation | 3-5 | Experiences to provide information on urinary incontinence prevention for community-dwelling elderly women. | ||
Others | 3 types 3 times | Agricultural experience program | Experimental farm | 4 | Experiences to do farming and think about farmers’ care. |
Interaction with midwives working in the local community | Institutions of midwives | 10 | Experiences to communicate with midwives working in the local community and think about community-based midwives’ activities. |