Desirable Educational Environment for the Better Clinical Clerkship

• Published in: Igaku Kyoiku / Medical Education (Japan) Vol. 35; no. 1; pp. 9 - 15
• Main Authors: TAKEDA, Yuko Y, TANABE, Masahiro, GOTOH, Eiji, FUKUSHIMA, Osamu, KOZU, Tadahiko, MATSUO, Osamu, TAKAKUWA, Yuichi, TOYODA, Nagayasu, BAN, Nobutaro, OHNO, Ryozo, EGUCHI, Mitsuoki, ITOH, Kazuo, ABE, Yoshifumi, INABA, Yutaka, YAMAMOTO, Hiromichi
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: Japanese
• Published: Japan Society for Medical Education 25.02.2004
• Subjects: board of education; clerkship director; clinical clerkship; department of medical education; medical act; medical team function
• ISSN: 0386-9644; 2185-0453
• DOI: 10.11307/mededjapan1970.35.9

In order to implement, or enhance the quality of clinical clerkship, it is necessary to develop good educational environment which will be appropriate to allow medical students participate in medical team services. Important things to be considered will be, (1) Systematic management of the individual department's program by the faculty of medicine, (2) Developing educational competency within the medical care team function, and (3) Nurturing students' awareness forself-diected learning and cooperative team work, and teaching- and medical staffs' awareness of their educational responsibilities. In this paper, to develop better educational environment for clinical clerkship, we propose a desirable situation of the educational organization, dividedly describing on the roles of dean, faculties, board of education, department of medical education, clerkship director, teaching physicians, residents and medical students.