Undergraduate Medical Education in a Community: A Community-based Clinical Clerkship
- VernacularTitle:大学外卒前医学教育：地域での医学教育Ｃｏｍｍｕｎｉｔｙ‐Ｂａｓｅｄ Ｍｅｄｉｃａｌ Ｅｄｕｃａｔｉｏｎ 大学外卒前医学教育の場としての地域医療実習
- Author:
Masanobu OKAYAMA
;
Eiji KAJII
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
undergraduate medical education;
community-based medical education;
clinical clerkship;
effect of medical education
- From:Medical Education
2003;34(3):171-176
- CountryJapan
- Language:Japanese
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Abstract:
In Japan, it is necessary to develop the community medicine (community health care) because of the current of the medical practice. Since 1998, the community-based clinical clerkship (the two weeks' program) has been introduced to the all 5-grade medical students in Jichi Medical School. The aim of this program is to learn not only the knowledge and skill for the community medical practice, but also the attitude included the pleasure, enjoyment and worth to do it. The program contains as many activities of the community medicine as possible other than the out-patient or the in-patient managements. The most of medical students give good evaluation to the program. After the program, many of the medical students became to have the motivation to work in the rural area. In the undergraduate medical education, a community-based clinical clerkship will be more necessary in terms of the development of the community medicine.
