History of Medical education in Japan / 医学教育

ABSTRACT

At the time of 1945, the number of entrance to medical school in our country exceeded 10,000 people. After the end of the war, Colonel Sams reformed the doctor training course, consolidation of medical schools, national examination, internship system was introduced. After the internship system changed to postgraduate clinical training in 1968 and clinical training based on law in 2004. Before introducing the clinical training based on law, the doctor nurturing pathway was deeply involved by "Ikyoku-Kouza" system in faculty and attached hospital. Medical education standard was established at 1948 and became a nationwide unified curriculum, but the freedom of the curriculum has increased with the advent of Tsukuba University School of Medicine at 1973. Based on these histories, it is necessary to think about the ideal way of making a physician pathway and the future way of the medical education curriculum development.