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The S-TOP Project, held a Joint Seminar with the Japan Overseas Cooperation Volunteer (JOCV) Rehabilitation Working Group in Khon Kaen Province from the 5th to the 7th of June, 2019. There were more than 80 participants for the program on the 5th and 6th, along with more than 50 participants during the group work session on International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health (ICF) in the morning of the 7th.

Mr. Yoichi Maruyama, the Head of Physiotherapy Department of Kakeyu Hospital in Nagano Prefecture, who visited as a short-time expert for the Project, gave a lecture which raised the awareness and facilitated the participants to understand the importance of team conference, rehabilitation, care goal setting with patients and/or service users, and approach to environment of patients and/or service users through team approach, by showing the examples of utilization of the experiences on rehabilitation of Japan into Saen Suk Town in Chonburi Province.

In addition, we visited Nam Phong Hospital (community hospital) to understand further their operation of Intermediate Care (IMC) and Seamless care. Afterwards, the participants were divided into two groups, where one group observed the IMC ward at Nam Phong Hospital, and the other visited the Daycare Center at Sa-ad Tambon Municipality.

Adding to the above, lectures on "Roles and Practices of Rehabilitation Nurse" by a nurse from Nam Phong Hospital and "Community based Seamless care in the Nam Phong District" by the Director of Nam Phong Hospital were given to many participants of project members in order to share what they leant from Japan Training and how to apply and practice them to Thailand.

In the end, JOCV and their counterparts gave the lectures and led the group work on the usage of the International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health (ICF) for team approach in seamless care. During the group work, the participants were divided into 7 groups and did case study of IMC or LTC to make a treatment/care plan by using ICF. The case examples were a disabled child, an elderly person who is on IMC, and a person with Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) at the Industrial Rehabilitation Center. Through the discussion with multi-disciplinary, holistic treatment/care plans were created by the participants, including both medical and non-medical aspects.

The S-TOP team has positive expectations that the team approach introduced in this seminar will be utilized by the participants to create more effective and efficient IMC and Seamless service in the pilot sites.

The feature of this seminar was collaboration of JOCV and S-TOP Project, which utilized the advantages of each JOCV and S-TOP Project and actualized the learning from theory and application into practice for the daily works of the participants. This new initiative has brought us another aspect and potential for more productive cooperation.

Lecture by Mr. Maruyama, Short-term Expert

Presentation by nurse at Nan Phong Hospital

Observation at Daycare Center of Sa-ad Tambon Municipality

Lecture by Ms. Yoneda, Expert

Role playing on the procedures of ICF Group Work by JOCV

Phase of Workshop Session