Abstract
To clarify the state of cooperation between the community medical training institutes of Iwate Medical University and community comprehensive support centers, a questionnaire survey was conducted in February 2017. Of the respondent institutes, 33 (82%) reported conducting visiting medical care and its equivalent, 13 (32%) reported being involved in management councils of community comprehensive support centers, and 31 (77%) reported participating in community care conferences. Of the community comprehensive support centers surveyed, 40 (85%) had management councils, and community care conferences were found to be held in 46 regions (98%). The community medical training institutes of Iwate Medical University showed a high participation rate in meetings related to comprehensive care as well as a high implementation rate of home healthcare, such as visiting medical care and nursing. As the medical institutes require further improvement in the participation rate in community care conferences and the community comprehensive support centers need to fulfill demand for manpower, close cooperation among them is a future task to be addressed.
