Abstract
The results of a questionnaire survey made by the Education Committee of the Japanese Sociaty of Psychosomatic Medicine in February, 1975,are reported.The questionnaires were sent to 76 medical departments throughout the country, and answers were received from 32 of them. Among teh 32 departments, these were 29 where the lectures were given and bedside teachings conducted on psychosomatic medicine.As a common trend, insufficient teaching hours and shortage of teaching staff were emphasized in the contents of the answers.These answers were classed according to the kind of department into three groups, that is, 10 psychiatric, 12 internal medicine and 9 other departments.Comparison among them indicated that at non-psychiatric departments, especially at the departmetns of psychosomatic medicine, lectures on psychosomatic medicine were being given according to the teaching to the teaching curricula which were quite different from those given at psychiatric departmetns where psycholomatic medicine is considered only as a part of psyshiatry.As psychosomatic medicine is in a transitional stage, various psychiatric techniques are currently used in teh departments of psychosomatic medicine. No doubt the day will come in the future when the departments of psychosomatic medicine use their independent techniques which are different from those orthodox ones traditionally used in psychiatry.
