1) Persons with hearing disabilities have been allowed to obtain medical licenses in Japan since 2002, and a medical student with a hearing disability has been receiving medical training at Teikyo University School of Medicine.
2) Despite their best efforts, the student's classmates and instructors often did not recognize or understand his disabilities during medical training.
3) Mutual understanding and support of team members are essential for medical students with hearing disabilities to become physicians. To this end, financial support from public institutions and other types of social support are also need