抄録
Recently the deterioration of the quality of the students in our department of medical technology has been one of the biggest problems among us. The situation in which medical technologists are placed has made a great change with the transition of social background and, as a result, the demands for better-qualified medical technologists have been increasing. This tendency, however, comes not only from the declining birthrate and the increase of the ratio of students who go on to higher education, but also from such a variety of problems as technical innovation, industrialization, and urbanization as their background. Through the data of both 'the survey of students' consciousness' I have collected for the past 13 years and the questionnaire of the same kind conducted this summer, I made a general survey of how the deterioration of students' quality has been occurring these several years. The conclusion I got from this survey is that I recognized anew the very decrease of 1) communication ability 2) endurance and 3) academic ability among the students I dealt with, compared with those of about a decade ago.
