About the Authors
- Junji Otaki
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Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
* E-mail: jotaki1958@gmail.com
Affiliations Center for Medical Education and International Relations, Faculty of Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan, Department of General Medicine and Primary Care, Tokyo Medical University, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan
- Kikuko Taketomi
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Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Writing – review & editing
Current address: Fundamental Nursing, School of Nursing, Sapporo City University, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan
Affiliation Center for Medical Education and International Relations, Faculty of Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan
- Machiko Shibahara
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Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing
Current address: Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Affiliation Medical Education Center, Faculty of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
- Yoko Watanabe
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Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing
Current address: College of Creative Studies, Niigata University, Niigata, Japan
Affiliation Chair of Lifelong Education, Graduate School of Education, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
- Shizuko Nagata-Kobayashi
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Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing
Current address: Department of Internal Medicine, Kyotohakuaikai Hospital, Kyoto, Japan
Affiliation Department of General Medicine and Primary Care, Tokyo Medical University, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan
- Yoshimi Harada
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Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Department of General Medicine and Primary Care, Tokyo Medical University, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan
- Hiroshi Mitoma
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Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Department of Medical Education, Tokyo Medical University, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan
Competing Interests
I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: This research was supported by the Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number 24390133) of the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.