Educating medical students in rural area through a rural medicine experience camp
10.14442/generalist.38.243
- VernacularTitle:どうやって医学生に地域医療を教育するか？
- Author:
Takao Wakabayashi
;
Shinichi Takeda
;
Yoshinobu Fujito
;
Wari Yamamoto
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- From:An Official Journal of the Japan Primary Care Association
2015;38(3):243-247
- CountryJapan
- Language:Japanese
-
Abstract:
A rural medicine experience camp is held every year for medical students of Sapporo Medical University who are obligated to work in rural area after graduation. We organized two method in our camp : 1. the lecture about rural medicine by senior medical students, 2. setting up the learning content in camp by participant before camp. We investigated how these methods make an impact on the participant's motivation about rural medicine. The results suggested that a method 1 enhanced the understanding of rural medicine and method 2 raised an a warenss about rural medicine. We thought that it was important to try various education about rural medicine for increasing the motivation to rural medicine for medical student.
