A Curriculum on the Undergraduate Education of General Medicine / 医学教育

ABSTRACT

The working group on the education of general medicine, Japan Society for Medical Education, has defined general medicine as a discipline which includes following three areas; 1) basic clinical skills which incorporate humane health care, 2) comprehensive community and family medicine and 3) general internal medicine which provides integrated services to solve clinical problems at any level. It has also issued a proposal on undergraduate education of general medicine at university hospitals. The working group now propose a detailed sample curriculum which describes the instruction in three areas mentioned above. Overview, General Instructional Objective (GTO), Specific Behavioral Objectives (SBOs), Learning Strategies (LS) and Evaluation are included in this sequence.