Education about kampo medicine at Keio University Medical School / 医学教育

ABSTRACT

1) For third-year students at Keio University Medical School, 10 lectures are given about why <I>kampo</I> medicine is effective, Fourth-year students receive 8 lectures on <I>kampo</I> medicine and participate in independent study sessions 3 times a week for 4 months.<BR>2) In lectures entitled “Why Is <I>kampo</I> Medicine Effective?”we introduce the functional mechanism of action of <I>kampo</I> medicine and address the skepticism of medical students. In the lecture series entitled “Kampo Medicine, ”we introduce the clinical foundations of <I>kampo</I> practice and provide students with a checklist of the key points of each lecture.<BR>3) In the independent study sessions, several students perform mentored basic-science research into <I>kampo's</I> mechanism of action.