新臨床研修制度と進路決定 : 本学在学生と卒業生へのアンケート調査から

Abstract

A new early clinical resident training system started in ]apan in 2004, and many changes took place in the medical care system including a decrease in the number of doctors in rural areas. Those changes have caused critical social problems, in Nara too. In order to investigate this problem, we ran a questionnaire in December 2004 for subjects including students and residents. We tried to find the merits and demerits of the new system by analyzing the data provided by the questionnaire. The results of the questionnaire showed that most students actually decide their future specialty before graduating, but after early resident training, some of them experience a definite event that makes them want to change their future course, and half of them actually change the late phase of their resident course.