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Yasushi MIYATA2009 Volume 40 Issue 2 Pages 95-104
Published: 2009
Released on J-STAGE: August 06, 2010
JOURNAL FREE ACCESSThe relationship between physicians and drug companies has often been discussed. Maintaining trust by managing conflicts of interest is a requirement of medical professionalism. Maintaining an appropriate relationship is considered important in our medical education society. We conducted this survey to understand physicians' attitudes towards gifts offered by drug companies.
1) Questionnaires were distributed to 1200 physicians who registered with an Internet survey company.
2) After attending medical conference sponsored by drug companies, almost all physicians received ballpoint pens and note pads, and many physicians received, food, drink, taxi coupons, and booklets about clinical guidelines.
3) Compared with young physicians, experienced physicians tend to receive more gifts from drug companies. Physicians who worked at clinics received gifts more frequently than did hospital physicians. Physicians who worked at public hospitals and university hospitals were offered travel and lodging expenses for attending clinical conferences.
4) Most physicians received gifts from drug companies. The frequency of receiving such gifts differed with the number of years since graduation and the characteristics of their workplaces.
5) The results of this survey are valuable fundamental data for discussing and teaching about the relationship between physicians and drug companies.View full abstractDownload PDF (592K) -
Hiroki MISHINA, Yoko YOKOYAMA, Koji KAWAKAMI, Shunichi FUKUHARA2009 Volume 40 Issue 2 Pages 105-112
Published: 2009
Released on J-STAGE: August 06, 2010
JOURNAL FREE ACCESSBackground: Because of a severe shortage of clinical researchers in Japan, training clinical physicians to perform clinical research is an important issue in medical education. Although education has started to provide a foundation for clinical research, it is unclear whether clinicians, who should play a central role in a clinical research, are interested in performing clinical research and participating in a training program for clinical research.
1) We performed a cross-sectional Internet survey to determine the interest of clinicians' interest in performing a clinical research and participating in a clinical-research training program.
2) A total of 2176 clinicians were sent emails requesting their participation in this survey, and 310 responded (response rate, 14.6%). Eighty-five percent of the respondents were interested in conducting clinical research, and 78% were willing to participate in a clinical-research training program.
3) Most respondents were willing to participate in a training program as part of an educational seminar or a training course after a few years of clinical practice. The respondents desired an educational system that would allow them to learn about clinical research while continuing their clinical practice.
4) Although the rate of willingness to participate in a training program was highest (90%) among respondents who wanted to earn a doctorate, the rates were also high among those who did not want to earn a doctorate (76%) and those who had already earned a doctorate (74%).
5) An educational system for clinical research should allow graduate schools to play leading role in training and should be flexible enough for clinicians who do not want to earn a doctorate.View full abstractDownload PDF (510K)
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J. Patrick BARRON, Raoul BREUGELMANS, Ruri ASHIDA2009 Volume 40 Issue 2 Pages 113-115
Published: 2009
Released on J-STAGE: August 06, 2010
JOURNAL FREE ACCESSConclusions
1)The present situation of teaching English for medical purposes (EMP) in Japanese medical schools is chaotic.
2)We need a standardized EMP curriculum and standardized national and international EMP goals.
3) Based on Ministry of Education funding, a free Internet platform for EMP educational materials has been established and could be used to develop a national standardized EMP program.View full abstractDownload PDF (481K)
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Kenji MATSUI, Rika KANAGAWA, Satoshi KODAMA, Akira AKABAYASHI2009 Volume 40 Issue 2 Pages 117-122
Published: 2009
Released on J-STAGE: August 06, 2010
JOURNAL FREE ACCESSEmerging ethical issues have prompted Western countries to focus more attention on public health ethics in medical education. To assess the current and future states of public health ethics education in Japan, we analyzed the opinions of public health educators in Japanese medical institutions and explored potential topics for public health ethics curriculums.
1) We mailed self-administered questionnaires to 201 hygiene and public health departments to inquire about their current curriculums and the state of public health ethics education at their institutions.
2) Of the 101 responding institutions, 60.4% were spending 8% of teaching hours on lectures related to ethical issues in public health.
3) Most institutions agreed with a proposal to require the completion of a public health ethics course in medical education programs.
4) Among the major topics chosen to be included in the potential course were ethical issues surrounding public health policy and medical research.View full abstractDownload PDF (786K) -
Michiko GOTO, Tsukasa TSUDA, Shoji YOKOYA, Yousuke TAKEMURA, Norimasa ...2009 Volume 40 Issue 2 Pages 123-127
Published: 2009
Released on J-STAGE: August 06, 2010
JOURNAL FREE ACCESS1) By participating in the white coat ceremony, 60% percent of students felt that they had been accepted as fledgling medical professionals and become members of the medical community, and 86% began to think that they must take care of patients sincerely in the near future.
2) The white coat ceremony made students aware that they would become physicians and gave them an opportunity to renew their enthusiasm for starting clinical clerkships. The distance between students and teachers was reduced.
3) We will continue to hold the white coat ceremony, because it is an effective way of teaching professionalism to students.View full abstractDownload PDF (413K) -
Keiko ABE, Yuka OKUNO2009 Volume 40 Issue 2 Pages 129-131
Published: 2009
Released on J-STAGE: August 06, 2010
JOURNAL FREE ACCESS1)We attended the Association of Standardized Patient Educators (ASPE) Annual Conference in 2008.
2) The ASPE international committee has aimed to make the group more international by calling for participants from counties outside North America.
3) Evolving programs of communication in teams and combining standardized patients and simulation technology were identified as trends in 2008.View full abstractDownload PDF (679K) -
Sayako ONO, Hisayuki HAMADA2009 Volume 40 Issue 2 Pages 133-136
Published: 2009
Released on J-STAGE: August 06, 2010
JOURNAL FREE ACCESS1) We attempted to reform the medical education system for residents at the National Nagasaki Medical Center because the percentage of unmatched applicants in the new national residency training system has been increasing.
2) We established a committee for residency training through leadership principles. We then classified problems of the training system and attempted to solve them through the concepts of the learning triangle in education and the educational cycle.
3) Finally, we succeeded in improving the educational system for residents by establishing a new committee that individualizes the problems and solves them effectively.View full abstractDownload PDF (688K) -
Akihiro SAKURAI, Tomoki KOSHO, Sumako ITO, Yumiko KATO, Atsuko MATSUMO ...2009 Volume 40 Issue 2 Pages 141-145
Published: 2009
Released on J-STAGE: August 06, 2010
JOURNAL FREE ACCESS1) In 2004, Shinshu University School of Medicine started a program for third-year medical students to experience nursing services during both the day and night shifts. The program included lectures on nursing sciences before practice and debriefing sessions after practice.
2) Most students viewed this program favorably and felt that the night-shift training was particular meaningful. They also had favorable opinions about the nurses who taught them.
3) Some practical issues remain to be solved, such as security during the night shift and the possible excessive burden upon nurses.View full abstractDownload PDF (736K)
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