ABSTRACT
The new community-based curriculum in Shimane Medical University, Japan, which are mainly based on family health practice and community health approach, is useful for students to understand the comprehensive medicine and holistic approach to community-based primary health care.<BR>It is important to introduce district health workers in the preventive education for medical students to obtain to humanistic attitude and to change their value and behavior.<BR>The importance of the exposure to the community health activities organized with man power and social resources should be more stressed in the improvement of the medical education curriculum and also of educational methodology to learn the essential physicians' nature such as humanity, responsibility, cooperation, positive attitude, and ability of problem solving.
