著者

松村 美奈 中山 拓人 寒水 孝司

出版者

公益社団法人 日本薬学会

雑誌

YAKUGAKU ZASSHI (ISSN:00316903)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.136, no.11, pp.1563-1571, 2016-11-01 (Released:2016-11-01)

参考文献数

7

被引用文献数

4 1

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A survey of introductory statistics courses at Japanese medical schools was published as a report in 2014. To obtain a complete understanding of the way in which statistics is taught at the university level in Japan, it is important to extend this survey to related fields, including pharmacy, dentistry, and nursing. The current study investigates the introductory statistics courses offered by faculties of pharmaceutical sciences (six-year programs) at Japanese universities, comparing the features of these courses with those studied in the survey of medical schools. We collected relevant data from the online syllabi of statistics courses published on the websites of 71 universities. The survey items included basic course information (for example, the course names, the targeted student grades, the number of credits, and course classification), textbooks, handouts, the doctoral subject and employment status of each lecturer, and course contents. The period surveyed was July-September 2015. We found that these 71 universities offered a total of 128 statistics courses. There were 67 course names, the most common of which was “biostatistics (iryou toukeigaku).” About half of the courses were designed for first- or second-year students. Students earned fewer than two credits. There were 62 different types of textbooks. The lecturers held doctoral degrees in 18 different subjects, the most common being a doctorate in pharmacy or science. Some course content differed, reflecting the lecturers' academic specialties. The content of introductory statistics courses taught in pharmaceutical science programs also differed slightly from the equivalent content taught in medical schools.

著者

寒水 孝司 武蔵 優希 中山 拓人

出版者

日本計量生物学会

雑誌

計量生物学 (ISSN:09184430)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.38, no.2, pp.141-152, 2018 (Released:2018-05-18)

参考文献数

15

被引用文献数

1

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The American Statistical Association released a “Statement on Statistical Significance and P-Values.” There has been extensive global discussion on p-values since their use was introduced. It is necessary to eliminate or reduce significance chasing, and misin-terpretation and misuse of p-values while incorporating their proper use. This article discusses the possible causes of such problems by examining statistics education at schools of medicine, dentistry and pharmaceutical sciences in Japanese universities. In the first part of the article, we discuss the implications of the model core curricu-lum for each educational field and the reference standards of educational policy in statistics, and in the second part, we discuss the implications of the survey results for introductory statistics courses at schools of medicine, dentistry, and pharmaceutical sciences. The surveys collected relevant data from online syllabi of statistics courses along with researchers’ information published on university websites. The survey items introduced in this article include the course names, textbooks, doctoral subject and employment status of each lecturer, and course contents.