Department of Medical Education

Hitoshi HASEGAWA, MD, PhD, FACP

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“All For Patients”

Medical education must be reformed one or two steps in advance—in anticipation of future needs and medical care development—to adequately serve society, especially during the present era of data deluge and medical information “explosion.”

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Our department was established in 2013 to promote ideal medical education and reform it in tandem with all departments and instructors in the university, and with external institutions and professionals, as well as with our students, who will lead our efforts in the future. With the cooperation of our colleagues in all fields, we are dedicated to providing our students with high-quality, evidence-based, learner-centered medical education and training, to help them master the art and science of medicine and become ideal doctors—healers, innovators, medical teachers and leaders—with international perspectives and a global vision. We aim to ensure that, by the end of our six-year program, all students have come to fully understand the following subject areas and acquired the relevant knowledge and skills for each, thus preparing them to function as ideal clinical residents, and later as physicians.

• Professionalism
• Medical ethics
• Medical behavioral science
• Patent safety
• Evidence-based medicine (EBM)
• Medical laws
• Communication skills

We prepare our students to perform the basic clinical skills (clinical reasoning—medical interview, physical assessment, writing medical records—for primary and general practice) for 41 major symptoms.

We strive to ensure the excellence of our educational program, through:

• designing and coordinating an integrated curriculum with all instructors and students of our university, and with related hospitals and clinics
• supporting teachers, and students in the process of teaching and learning
• maintaining up-to-date, accessible, and appropriate facilities and resources for education

The main duties of our department include:

• promoting continuous curriculum reform for the future, together with faculties and students
• promoting education digitization (lectures, practice, training, evaluation) in tandem with related divisions to realize more effective lectures and practical training in which students become active learners
• managing the unified term-end examination, first, fourth, and sixth grade Objective Structured Clinical Examinations (OSCE), and the Computer Based Test (CBT) for the fourth-year students
• arranging lectures horizontally and vertically to promote integrated education, linked to every field in each school year

Our department focuses strongly on educating our first-year students. Based on clinical reasoning learning and training for major symptoms, we pursue a horizontally and vertically integrated basic, social, and clinical medicine education approach extending through their entire six years of medical school. Medical information science informs our medical interview practice educational regimen, which is adjusted for various situations. We also supplement our medical English education by teaching medical interview skills and medical anthropology in English, and conduct OSCE in English annually.
For our second-year students, we provide courses on integrated community care systems and inter-professional education that center on problem-based learning (PBL), with the cooperation of many different medical professionals.
For our fourth-year students, we coordinate pre-clinical clerkship basic clinical skill lectures and practical training. Additionally, for students engaged in clinical clerkships we coordinate weekly symptom-based conferences and perform major symptom-based simulation training. Finally, for all levels of our medical education program, we conduct research to assess learner and program outcomes for continuous quality improvement.

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