Innovative Approaches to Curriculum Changes in Medical Schools in Japan / 医学教育

I briefly summarized major innovative movements and events in medical education in Japan during the last 25 years. We recognized that constant efforts have been exerted and resulted in changes in manyaspects of medical education in our country.<BR>Traditional medicine is rapidly changing, developing and expanding to more sophistication and integration. The world is changing, thus the needs for medicine and medical care are different from even those several years ago. To update medical education in order to meet social needs and demands, we have to install a device which constantly renews ourselves in each school and in the government. Both governmental and non-governmental approaches in cooperation seem to be necessary in our country. I have shown our non-governmental efforts from various sources. We recognize that our thinking and discussions in an environment of freedom have contributed a great deal to national decision making.

An ex post facto evaluation of the 82nd and 83rd national examination for Physicians' license / 医学教育

The 82 nd and 83 rd National Examination for Physicians' License, which were held in 1988 and 1989 respectively, were evaluated from question to question as well as in all the questions as a whole to set minimum pass scores and analysis “relevance” and “difficulty” in a matrix utilizing a modified Ebel's method.<BR>The evaluators were teachers in different disciplines in nationwide medical schools and teaching hospitals and clinical trainees who had taken and passed the immediate past examinations.<BR>Following data processing, the questionable and difficult questions were on the decrease compared with the preceding year, and it was tentatively concluded that the National Examinations have gradually improved year by year.

A plan of the curriculum of chemistry for medical students / 医学教育

Based on two years working of “the enlarged working group for the curriculum of chemistry for medical education”, a provisional plan of the curriculum of chemistry for medical students is proposed. The article is consist of four sections; namely A: general problems, B: “chemistry” as a general education, C: purpose and specific problems of the general education for medical students, D: a provisional plan of the curriculum of chemistry for medical students.<BR>The main part D is consist of three subsections: namely (1) a plan of the curriculum of physical and inorganic chemistry, (2) a plan of the curriculum of organic chemistry, (3) a plan of the curriculum of experiments.