ABSTRACT
<p> Tokyo Women's Medical University has been training women doctors since 1900. In 2011, "MD program 2011" was developed as a new outcome-based roadmap for educating women doctors who can contribute to society with sincerity and a warm heart. This program was approved by the Association for Medical Education in the Western Pacific Region (AMEWPR) . The program not only incorporates the good points of previous programs but also contains an up-to-date and advanced curriculum related to professionalism and career development, and has a longitudinal design from a basic to advanced level. It includes two workshops, summer field training, and one lecture. The present paper provides an overview of these four components of the program, introducing educational efforts to further the careers of female doctors graduating from this university.</p>
ABSTRACT
Skills for breaking bad news (BBN) at the medical interview station were evaluated with the advanced objective structured clinical examination (OSCE). To clarify performances at this station, we compared the scores at this station with those of the Common Achievement Tests OSCE controlled by the Common Achievements Test Organization (CATO). The subjects were a group of students tested at an interval of 1 year 4 months during their clinical clerkships.1) Raters (mostly postdoctorate fellows) played simulated patients after they had been trained to ensure standardization.2) Students who had high scores for BBN skills on the advanced OSCE also had high scores for both the behavior part and the knowledge part of the total evaluation.3) In contrast, students who had high scores for BBN skills on the advanced OSCE did not always have high scores on the Common Achievement Tests OSCE, suggesting the importance of clinical clerkships between these 2 OSCEs.