Process of the Reform of Postgraduate Clinical Training System and Expected Clinical Specialists

• Published in: Igaku Kyoiku / Medical Education (Japan) Vol. 35; no. 3; pp. 161 - 165
• Main Author: YAZAKI, Yoshio
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English; Japanese
• Published: Japan Society for Medical Education 2004; 日本医学教育学会
• Subjects: general clinical abilities; postgraduate clinical training system; super rotate; スーパーローテート; 医師臨床研修制度; 総合診療能力
• ISSN: 0386-9644; 2185-0453
• DOI: 10.11307/mededjapan1970.35.161

It had been 36 years after it first started; a radical reform had been done on the postgraduate clinical training system.The subject point of the change was that in the past, mainly in University hospitals, where postgraduate clinical trainingsystem was managed mainly by the Department of a resident's planned medical staff, to enter in the future; in the newsystem, a resident is incorporated in a training program with contents of internal medicine, surgery and emergency, notjust bounded to particular field, in order to master basic and general clinical abilities. The new postgraduate clinicaltraining system is also expected for the hospital's side to become activated by remaining the clinical training system, andothers. As a matter of course, the System has given a great effect to the curriculums of undergraduate medical education, and so, a revision of medical education to bring up medical staff of excellent quality, is also on its way.