Experiences of Australian heart and liver transplantations as a Japanese medical student / 医学教育

ABSTRACT

During my clinical cler ship course as a medical student in Australia from April, 1989, I have learned and experienced with liver and heart transplantations which have not performed in Japan. I have accompanied with liver transplant team of Royal Prince Alfred Hospital and heart transplant team of St. Vincent Hospital, both in Sydney, in order to perform operations and bring organs by airplane or police cars. I have also visited the office and laboratory of the New South Wales Red Cross in Sydney and learned much about social supporting systems for organ transplantation by transplant co-ordinators. Through this significant and precious experiences, I could understand a matured system of Australian organ transplantation.