Overview of Medical Education in Ukraine / 医学教育

Also, the majority of doctors trained in Ukraine provide medical assistance worldwide, which is evidence of an outstanding level of medical education in Ukraine. Quite a few students from Asia, the Middle East, and Africa entered medical schools in Ukraine due to inexpensive tuition. The fact that those graduates served in various countries assures the global standard of medical education in Ukraine.

Developing and maintaining website of department of forensic medicine and toxicology: a need of the hour.

With recent advancement of civilization, man has been inventing various tools to assist him in living in the changed environment. Online Medical Education System has now become reality. Developing and maintaining website of Department of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology by every medical college is the need of the hour. Developing and maintaining a website is not a difficult task for any department irrespective of the status of the institution. The financial burden is not very much. What makes this task so difficult is the lack of knowledge in this area rather than hurdles on the way. Authors have tried to clarify the various doubts regarding this area i.e. how the website can be developed, the financial burden to register a website, website maintainence, role of on-line medical education, undergraduate and postgraduate students benefits by the website, website use to associate different departments and institutions, obtaining updated information via Internet and other websites, the security issues while sharing the information as well as updating. It is envisaged that whence the departments develop their website, they may be affiliated to IAFM website for their greater visibility.

Reformation of the clinical training system with educational theory: A trial in a clinical training hospital / 医学教育

1) We attempted to reform the medical education system for residents at the National Nagasaki Medical Center because the percentage of unmatched applicants in the new national residency training system has been increasing.2) We established a committee for residency training through leadership principles. We then classified problems of the training system and attempted to solve them through the concepts of the learning triangle in education and the educational cycle.3) Finally, we succeeded in improving the educational system for residents by establishing a new committee that individualizes the problems and solves them effectively.

Introduction of Medical School: How Should We Re-design Our Medical Education System in 2010?

BACKGROUND AND CURRENT CONCEPTS: Conversion of 'all' medical colleges to medical schools had been tried by governmental force based on political, non-educational reasons and caused so many problems and conflicts. TEACHING POINTS AND CONCLUSION: Our medical education system should be re-designed in 2010 on the base of agreement among the various stakeholders in our society respecting public interest and autonomy of university.

A Comparative Study on Medical Education Systems in Korea, China and Japan / 한국의학교육

PURPOSE: The present study examined the possibility of standardization of medical education in three Asian countries-Korea, China, and Japan, by comparing their medical education and licensing systems. METHODS: As the criterion for comparison, we divided medical education system into three stages- basic medical education, graduate medical education, and continuing medical education. In addition, we analyzed the history and social and cultural backgrounds of medical education in each country. Recent changes were also examined. RESULTS: While little difference was found in the medical curriculums and courses between Korea and Japan, China's differed significantly from these two countries. But all three countries do attempt to keep up with international standards. CONCLUSION: To improve the quality of medical education in Korea, China, and Japan, these three countries need a plan to standardize medical education compatible with international standards but one that differs from western medical education by incorporating traditional medicine.

Comparison of Volunteer Activities at Saga University and the University of Hawaii / 医学教育

Influenced by a favorable environment, volunteer activities are integrated into medical education in the United States. Volunteer activities by medical students in hospitals are also becoming more common in Japan. With this background in mind, we performed a survey examining the nature of medical students' volunteer activities at the University of Hawaii in the United States and Saga University in Japan. By analyzing the percentages of students participating in volunteer activities and the location and content of the activities, we found that volunteer activities of medical students in Japan and the United States are strongly influenced by differences in the respective premedical education systems. We found that a premedical education that includes volunteer activities plays an important role in the United States. We suggest that further debate on premedical education that includes volunteer work is necessary for Japan to develop its own methods of medical education.

Model Core Curriculum and Student Evaluation System for Entering to a Clinical Clerkship. The Stream of Renovation of Medical Education in Japan / 医学教育

Referencing to one hundred and thirty years history of the modernized medical education in Japan, the author analyzed the stream of its renovation by classified it into four phases according to an old Chinese proverb, “They who want to know what shall be must consider what have been.” The change during sixty years after the World War II (the second phase) had been much more remarkable than that of seventy years before the War (the first phase). The unified medical education at all the new-system universities in the second phase had been diversified multidirectionally at many newlyestablished medical schools in order to meet the nation-wide demand to increase the number of young able physicians who became impulsive power group to innovate the traditional conservative medical society. The third phase had begun in 1991 when the university chartering standards law was liberalized vastly and every medical school could compose its curriculum more freely depending on its and student's demands like as order-made programs. Recent ten years, the fourth phase, are continuing up to today becoming the structure reform of medical education more remarkable and the education curricula core-oriented toward tomorrow's physician training. Now time has changed, “They who want to know what shall be must consider what will be.”

Medical education system. Report of the Working Group on the Medical Education System / 医学教育

The working group on the medical education system in the Japan Society for Medical Education had 2 meetings in 1997. In those meetings, members of the working group discussed on the following 4 problems related to the medical education;<BR>1) System to accept the graduates of other departments (Gakushi) into medical school<BR>2) Clinical professorship<BR>3) Post-graduate universities<BR>4) Education in the department of general medicine (Sogo-shinryo-bu)<BR>The results of the discussions are reported.

A Study of Medical Education System in Korea / 한국의학교육

There is a trial to increase as four years of the premedical course to make doctors with better humanities and variable educational backgrounds and good researchers in basic medicines. We studied the trial in the present situation of the Korean in scvcral vicwpoints There will be a confusion between doctor in a origanization and there are many problems expected with two different educational system in a countury Moreover, two years of premedical course and four years of medical course are enough to a clinician, especially a primary care doctor and there will be increased costs and late age to be a doctor if premedical course are increased as four years. It is not real reason for the lack of applicants to be good researchers in basic medicines that shot premedical course and lack of non-medical educational backgrouds. Also situation of medical school in Korea is not suffice to extend their facilities and faculties. Finally advantages from the extension of the premedical course can be gained with introductions of the limeted bachelor`s admission and or dual major system. The most important things is the single educational system to be a doctor and leaving the system to the discretion of the medical schools or universities