Masters Program in Medical Education / 医学教育

ABSTRACT

1) University of Toronto offers two kinds of Masters Degree programs for medical education. Masters degree is regarded as a fundamental qualification for "lifelong leadership".2) Masters degree is a degree which is expected for professionals of medical education in the US and Canada. But in Japan, such understanding has not been shared because of different teaching hospital system and medical school system.3) Significance of Masters programs for medical education is to make a medical doctors who is a professional another professional who is medical education professional. The research field is not within medicine but a complex of medicine and education. Therefore it is necessary to learn at Masters program specifically. Curriculum contents of medical education may consist of contents of medicine, contents of education, and proper contents of medical education.