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Online and Face-to-Face: Developing an Inter-University Undergraduate Research

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A combination of online and face-to-face interactions on research amongst students from different universities would stimulate their motivation for engaging in research activities and enhance their sense of belonging to an academic community.

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This paper was supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B) Number 17K15741.

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  1. Medical Education Development Center, Gifu University, 1-1 Yanagido, Gifu, 501-1194, Japan

    Rintaro Imafuku & Takuya Saiki

  2. Department of Medical Education, Kagawa University, Takamatsu, Japan

    Katsumi Nishiya & Hiroki Okada

  3. Center for Medical Education, Kansai Medical University, Hirakata, Japan

    Katsumi Nishiya

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Rintaro Imafuku (RI), Katsumi Nishiya (KN), Takuya Saiki (TS), and Hiroki Okada (HO) have planned and conducted a web conference during the course and a research meeting at a medical education conference as part of developing inter-university undergraduate research. RI substantially worked on writing the first draft and KN revised it. All the authors approved the final version.

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Correspondence to Rintaro Imafuku.

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This work was granted by the Institutional Review Board at Gifu University (25–359) and Kagawa University (28–131).

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Imafuku, R., Nishiya, K., Saiki, T. et al. Online and Face-to-Face: Developing an Inter-University Undergraduate Research. Med.Sci.Educ. 28, 5–6 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40670-017-0509-y

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