Medical students study focused on knowledge, skills and roles with their friend during medical school but not with other medical person. In clinical situation we always work with other medical persons but inter-professional education is not enough to know each other. Therefore our Okayama University has a medical school, pharmaceutical school, school of Nursing, and school of medical technology, we had case discussions using problem based learning (PBL) for inter-professional education.

Not only medical students but also students of other departments were interested in clinical reasoning. Furthermore students understood their own role in the clinical situation and difference in their point s of view. Diversity of team in safety environment made them motivated.

Students not only have an experiment of team training with students of different departments but also recognize their own profession through case discussion using PBL.

Case discussion using PBL is good for communication in undergraduate education.