TY - JOUR T1 - Long-term clinical clerkship improves medical students' attitudes toward team collaboration AU - Ganjitsuda, K. AU - Tagawa, M. AU - Tomihara, K. AU - Saiki, T. AU - Kikukawa, M. AU - Takamura, A. AU - Okazaki, H. AU - Matsuyama, Y. AU - Moriya, R. AU - Chiba, H. AU - Takagi, Y. AU - Setoyama, H. AU - Tokushige, A. AU - Yokoh, H. KW - medical student KW - teamworking KW - interprofessional education KW - transprofessional education KW - clinical clerkship KW - PY - 2022/10/31 Y1 - 2022/10/07 VL - 13 N1 - doi: 10.5116/ijme.633f.e97a DO - 10.5116/ijme.633f.e97a M3 - doi: 10.5116/ijme.633f.e97a JO - Int J Med Educ SP - 274 EP - 286 PB - IJME SN - 2042-6372 UR - http://www.ijme.net/archive/13/medical-students-attitudes-toward-team-collaboration/ L1 - http://www.ijme.net/archive/13/medical-students-attitudes-toward-team-collaboration.pdf N2 - Objectives: To examine the related factors associated with medical students' attitudes toward team collaboration. Methods: This cross-sectional study targeted medical students, residents, and doctors. A survey was conducted from 2016 to 2017 using the Japanese version of the Jefferson Scale of Attitudes Toward Interprofessional Collaboration (JeffSATIC-J), which evaluated "working relationship" and "accountability." We analyzed 2409 questionnaire responses with JeffSATIC-J items and the gender item. Analysis of variance was used for factors associated with the JeffSATIC-J score and Spearman's rank correlation coefficient for the relationship between educational intervention and the JeffSATIC-J score. Results: First-year students’ scores were the highest (F = 13.42 to 18.87, p < .001), and female students’ scores were significantly higher than those of male students (F = 21.16 to 31.10, p < .001). For residents' scores, the institution was not a significant variable. Female "accountability" scores were significantly higher than those of males (F = 4.95, p = .03). Gender was not a significant variable for doctors' scores. Sixth-year students' scores were significantly correlated with the length of clinical clerkship (r=.78 to .96, p<.05), with the exception of females' "working relationship" scores. The medical school with the highest JeffSATIC-J scores had the longest clinical clerkship in the community. Conclusions: These results indicate that long-term clinical clerkship in the community at higher grades is important in improving medical students' attitudes toward team collaboration. A qualitative study is required to confirm our findings. ER -