Medical education system. Introduction of the Clinical Professor System to Improve Clinical Competences of Medical Students.
- VernacularTitle:医学教育制度 卒前臨床能力の向上のための臨床教授制度の導入について
- Author:
Kanji IGA
;
Takanobu IMANAKA
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
clinical professor;
undergraduate clinical practical training;
clinical competence
- From:Medical Education
1998;29(3):169-171
- CountryJapan
- Language:Japanese
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Abstract:
Japanese medical school graduates who have just been licensed cannot properly conduct historytaking and physical examination because of inadequate undergraduate clinical practical training. We propose that each medical school should recruit senior physicians in its affiliated teaching hospitals as clinical professors who clinically train medical students in their own hospitals, evaluate the clinical competences of the students, and also participate in improving the undergraduate clinical curriculum of the medical school. The students poorly evaluated by clinical professors should not be allowed to graduate, while the clinical professors are evaluated by students and the medical school for renewal of the professorship.
