Instructors responsible for three of the course sections (150 190 students per section) met weekly to collaborate in all aspects of course design.
Because so many well-trained instructors are needed for the implementation of effective Kampo education, the small number of universities employing full-time instructors responsible for teaching Kampo medicine (29%) seems to greatly hinder the improvement of Kampo education [ 7].
(8) Among the problems to be solved promptly, curriculum standardization was selected by 63%, preparation of simple textbooks by 51%, and fostering instructors responsible for Kampo education by 65%.
In the present survey as well, fostering instructors responsible for Kampo education was selected by the largest number of responder schools (65%) as a problem to be dealt with promptly.
At least one of the instructors responsible for designing and planning DSME and DSMS will be a registered nurse, registered dietitian, or pharmacist with training and experience pertinent to DSME, or another professional with certification in diabetes care and education, such as a CDE or BC-ADM.
The course instructor is free of the conflicts faced by principal investigators; the instructor is responsible for teaching students rather than producing a publishable unit.
Every counselor and exercise instructor is responsible for several members.
A certified baby-massage instructor is responsible for training and education in the baby-massage group.
During the 10-wk instruction, the biologist instructor was responsible for 3 wk of materials and participated (for the 7 wk left) in class discussion related to her expertise.
The four instructors are responsible for curriculum development and all primary instruction, as well as assistance in program evaluation.
