Cases for Problem-based Tutorial Learning on Health Economics / 医学教育

ABSTRACT

Although the Ministery of Health and Welfare, Japan, has an intention to revamp the medical care delivery system, the majority of physicians are currently practicing in the context of some sort of public medical insurance system. Therefore, it is madatory that medical students and young physicians understand public medical insurance system and economical issues to practice medicine in a cost-effective way. We propose here neurosurgical cases used for that purpose employing problem-based learning method in tutorial system.