Abstract
In modern medical care, with its growing emphasis on holistic medicine and professionalism, the needs in areas such as the physician-patient relationship and narrative medicine, areas in which psychosomatic medicine excels, have intensified. At Toho University we have established lectures on Comprehensive Medicine that run throughout the school year, as a course covering topics such as breaking bad news to patients and psycho-oncology. Psychosomatic medicine can be called an area in which it is possible not only to provide education within a "psychosomatic medicine" framework but also to play various roles as part of the medical education. Offered during students' fourth year, these structured lectures on psychosomatic medicine utilize a PBL tutorial format. Clinical training is given in the fifth year. While clinical training can be said to occupy the critical position of serving as a bridge between structured lectures and postgraduate clinical training, it also entails the difficulty of having to address the needs of both learning methodologies within a limited time period. Consequently we have introduced narrative medicine's approach of using a "parallel chart" as one means of deepening students' reflections. This paper introduces psychosomatic medicine training at Toho University.
