Abstract
The Higashinagano Hospital residency program for the doctor who is going to be concerned with severe motor and intellectual disability (SMID) in the future is based on the National SMID conference “Clinical Practice Program”. Our Hospital has accepted junior residents since 2005 and since, then, continues to offer both one-day or one-week courses. The hospital holds pre-program meetings in which our doctors, nurses, physical therapists, dietitians, welfare staff, school teachers and general affairs staff meet and decide on general program content then assign specific responsibilities for lectures, observations, skill acquisition projects, and so on. Past and present daily resident reports are also carefully reviewed and considered for improvements to current and future training. Use of the program has resulted in the development of a rich curriculum that allows our hospital, which has a limited number of doctors, to effectively manage clinical practice. Many department staffs have significant contributions to the program in order to advance promising doctors for SMID. We hope that more residents will participate in this program of SMID clinical practice in the future.
