We studied the status of Kampo preparations at Iizuka Hospital by analyzing the content of doctors' prescriptions outside the department of Japanese Traditional (Kampo) Medicine.
Our method of analysis was to convert the prescription volume (or quantity) of into a number of Kampo packets for every half-year starting from 2003. As a result of this research, we saw that Kampo preparation volume gradually increased from 2003. Furthermore, we reviewed the content and volume of Kampo preparations prescribed by each doctor and department in the second half of 2009. Accordingly, the most prescribed Kampo preparation was daikenchuto, followed by daiokanzoto and goshajinkigan.
Moreover, Kampo preparations were prescribed by 87% of all doctors and departments. The Department of Surgery prescribed more than any other. And similarly characteristic usage patterns were seen for the Departments of Obstetrics & Gynecology, and Urology.
Thus we suggest that Kampo preparations are useful for medical treatment in the Hospital.

Discussions on the postgraduate medical school and the speciality training course after graduation had been conducted 2 times in 1994 among the members of the working group on postgraduate medical school and speciality training in Japanese Society for Medical Education. Results of the discussion are reported in this paper as a proposal for the improvement of the present state of education and training in the postgraduate medical schools in our country. In this report, several important proposals which need further discussions such as the shortening the clinical course in postgraduate medical school to 3 years from present 4 years and necessity of establishing the obligatory course for training the basic technology for life science research are presented. It is mandatory to have full time teaching staff as well as exclusive space for postgraduate course in each school to improve the of education of postgraduate medical schools.