Abstract
A quetionnaire was sent to and collected from 18 pediatric surgical services for the purpose of analyzing the present status of pediatric surgical education at children's hospitals in Japan. The undergraduate education has not been widely accepted at pediatric surgical institutions because of inactive demands from the source of students, i. e. university, and insufficient educational environment of the hospital. On the other hand, postgraduate education is genarally taken place at the children's hospital. The postgraduate training seems to be of benefit to both the trainee and the hospital. The hospital gives the trainee quite an efficient pediatric surgical training and the trainee serves as the hospital man power.
