Igaku Kyoiku / Medical Education (Japan)
Online ISSN : 2185-0453
Print ISSN : 0386-9644
ISSN-L : 0386-9644
Process of the Reform of Postgraduate Clinical Training System and Expected Clinical Specialists
Yoshio YAZAKI
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2004 Volume 35 Issue 3 Pages 161-165

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It had been 36 years after it first started; a radical reform had been done on the postgraduate clinical training system.The subject point of the change was that in the past, mainly in University hospitals, where postgraduate clinical trainingsystem was managed mainly by the Department of a resident's planned medical staff, to enter in the future; in the newsystem, a resident is incorporated in a training program with contents of internal medicine, surgery and emergency, notjust bounded to particular field, in order to master basic and general clinical abilities. The new postgraduate clinicaltraining system is also expected for the hospital's side to become activated by remaining the clinical training system, andothers. As a matter of course, the System has given a great effect to the curriculums of undergraduate medical education, and so, a revision of medical education to bring up medical staff of excellent quality, is also on its way.

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